New guy with Intel 965 issues

[Jesse Barnes]

On Monday, January 14, 2008 9:25 pm Matt Bailey wrote:
> Hi all, just joined the list here. I'm putting a fresh install of Slackware
> 12 on a Toshiba laptop (L45-S7423) with the Intel 965 chipset. I downloaded
> the latest (2.2.0) drivers at
> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/ driver/ which compiled
> fine on the machine. I then edited my xorg.conf file to use the new driver
> and was able to run X just fine. Trouble is, I'm still stuck with indrect
> OpenGL rendering via Mesa. Here's a quick run-down of things I've checked:
>
> 1. GLX and DRI are both enabled in xorg.conf
>
> 2. In the video device section of xorg.conf, I set "intel"
>
> 3. I uncommented the last bit of xorg.conf where DRI permissions are set
> (0666)
>
> 4. lsmod indicates that intel_agp, agpart, drm, and i915 are all loaded
>
> The only weirdness I can see is a bunch of messages from the i915 module in
> dmesg, they all start with "Unknown symbol:" and then list things like
> "drm_open", "drm_release", "drm_pci_free", etc.
>
> Any ideas? FWIW, my Xorg server version is 1.3.0.0.

Weird.  Normally those messages would mean that the i915 driver didn't load, 
but you say lsmod show it?  Seeing your dmesg, lsmod, and X log files might 
narrow things down.

Jesse