Hello
I have been fighting to get direct rendering working with the Intel 945 GM.
it's a toshiba laptop and I have tried everything I know and yet everytime i check glxinfo i get :'direct rendering: no' which is rather fustrating to be honest.

first i am using a custom kernel; i have enable agpgart in hard in the kernel. Maybe I should set it as module only? i must use a custom kernel; I have the latest available. if i don't have a custom kernel i can't make the wireless work.
okay then I went to have direct rendering. I have visited the www.intellinuxgraphics.com and tried to compile the drivers.
I was unable to compile the 2D X.org driver therefore I donwloaded the xserver-xorg-video-intel package which installs the 'intel.drv.so'
then when I try to launch the x i get the message it can find the i915_dri.so.
I build them mesa 3d from the git repositories and copied the i915.dri.so where the xorg log told me to yet I don't get the direct rendering.
the errors now concert AIGLX : the xserver doesn't die but i can't get direct rendering.
if anyone can help me with this I'll be grateful.
Thank you

You need to make sure the kernel driver is running. I think it's i915.ko This is the direct rendering module needed for glx to work.

thank you for your help.. but there's a problem when I do modprobe i915 I get hundred of version conflicts and symbols not found. where could originate those conflicts? i have the version from the kernel; and i believe the i915.dri.so from the www.intellinuxgraphics as I didn't know how to get it from the kernel...
what could I do? should I reinstall everything?
thank you in advance
mario

Install a default kernel shipped by debian.
Install whatever you need for your DRI to work. Now that you have replaced the mesa by the git, you should probably reinstall all GL related packages.
When you manage to make it work, download your kernel source (the best would be a kernel source from debian , apt-get source linux-imageXXX)
Check in /var/log/Xorg.0.log


Then do a make oldconfig to transfer the shipped-config into your new kernel.
Modify what you need for your damned ndiswrapper (I guess it's the problem..)
Recompile, reboot, check, enjoy