New guy with Intel 965 issues

[Matt Bailey]

On Wednesday 30 January 2008 14:12, R. G. Newbury set 1,000 monkies in front 
of keyboards and the following appeared:
>
> Matt: I was having problems with X/mesa/drm and attempting to build the
> xvmc branch of the intel driver. Kamalmeet Singh suggested here that all
> three portions should be in sync. So I grabbed, consecutively, the SVN's
> of X, mesa and drm, and then re-built the whole lot in one go.
> And a number of compile problems disappeared, it made and installed
> cleanly. ( I used the links on the intel linux graphics page to grab the
> SVN's,)
>
> I wonder if your problem might not be a similar one. And I also wonder
> why you are using modprobe i915 and not the intel driver?
>
> Geoff

Hmmm, well the building part isn't an issue, everything compiles ok. On the 
i915, this is a module that the Intel driver loads, correct? I set my xorg 
config file to use the "intel" driver, which attempts to load i915 when X 
starts. I'm only manually modprobe'ing it for testing purposes.

Someone suggested my kernel (2.6.21-smp) might not have the PCI id's for my 
video hardware, and said I could try a newer kernel. Could this cause what 
I'm seeing? At this point I'm about ready to try that, pretty much out of 
ideas.

Matt