intel I945 graphics

[Andrew Barr]

On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 14:51 +0100, Atwood, Robert C wrote:
> 
> Hi Andrew:
> >> but my program displays
> >> 100 times slower than on my old thinkpad t30 (now deceased)
> ...
> > What's the version of your intel driver?
> ...
> > The latest is 1.9.94.
> 
> 
> 
> thanks for the reply. Indeed there may be  some confusion about the
> version that is actually getting used!
> 
> 
> I built the driver from git , today, and followed the instructions,
> but I don't know how to probe the running X to ask actually which
> driver it is using. Where is the version number given? by 'intel
> driver' do you mean the thing compiled from the sources in
> xf86-video-intel? 

Yes.

> Can I find the version string in Xorg.0.log, I see nothing even close
> to that (module version 14.94.94 ? )
> 
That's 1.9.94

>        (II) LoadModule: "intel"
>        (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//intel_drv.so
>        (II) Module intel: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>           compiled for 1.2.99.903, module version = 14.94.94
>           Module class: X.Org Video Driver
>           ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.2
> 
> I'm just trying to repeat the steps of building the  xf86-video-intel
> but encountering new problems... I am not sure what changed but it
> cannot find local_xf86Rename.h , I do not recall this problem earlier.
> 
1.9.94 is available from 'experimental'...you shouldn't need to build
it. An AMD64 version showed up yesterday, I believe.

However, I can't speak directly about your particular generation of
Intel graphics hardware--I only have experience with the i830 generation
(855GM) and the i965 generation, both of which work more or less
perfectly with the latest intel modesetting driver, including
suspend-to-RAM on my laptop.

Andrew

> Is this meaningful? Thanks
> Robert
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