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direct rendering on i810

Hi all,
I had Suse installed on my comp earlier, and direct rendering worked in it. I have just installed gentoo, and I don't know what to do to make direct rendering work. Movies and stuff are working perfectly, but when I do
glxinfo | grep rendering
Then it returns "direct renderng:no". Similarly glxgears gives a fps of 100.

I have Intel 845 motherboard (I guess the graphics driver is i810). I am pasting my xorg.conf below:

Code:

############################################################

Section "Module"



    Load        "dbe"          # Double buffer extension



    SubSection  "extmod"

      Option    "omit xfree86-dga"  # don't initialise the DGA extension

    EndSubSection



    Load        "type1"

    Load        "freetype"

    Load      "glx"

    Load      "dri"



EndSection

############################################################

Section "Files"



    RgbPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"

    FontPath  "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"

    FontPath  "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"

    FontPath  "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"

    FontPath  "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"

    FontPath  "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"

    FontPath  "/usr/share/fonts/local/"



EndSection

############################################################

Section "InputDevice"



    Identifier        "Keyboard1"

    Driver        "kbd"

    Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"

    Option "XkbRules"        "xorg"

    Option "XkbModel"        "pc105"

    Option "XkbLayout"        "us"



EndSection

############################################################

Section "InputDevice"



    Identifier        "Mouse1"

    Driver        "mouse"

    Option "Protocol"    "IMPS/2"

    Option "Device"      "/dev/psaux"



    Option "Emulate3Buttons"

    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"



EndSection

############################################################

Section "Monitor"



    Identifier  "samsung"

    HorizSync  30-71

    VertRefresh 50-160



EndSection

############################################################

Section "Device"

    Identifier  "intel-test"

    Driver      "i810"

    VideoRam    16384

EndSection

############################################################

Section "Screen"

    Identifier  "Screen 1"

    Device      "intel-test"

    Monitor    "samsung"

    DefaultDepth 24



    Subsection "Display"

        Depth      8

        Modes      "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

        ViewPort    0 0

    EndSubsection

    Subsection "Display"

        Depth      16

        Modes      "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

        ViewPort    0 0

    EndSubsection

    Subsection "Display"

        Depth      24

        Modes      "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

        ViewPort    0 0

    EndSubsection

EndSection

############################################################

Section "ServerLayout"



    Identifier  "Simple Layout"



    Screen "Screen 1"



    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"

    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"



EndSection

############################################################

 Section "dri"

    Mode 0666

 EndSection

############################################################

Can anyone help me to start direct rendering? Any help/pointers would be helpful.

Thanks

you have DRI enabled in ur Xorg

"Direct Rendering Open Source Project. The Direct Rendering Infrastructure, also known as the DRI"

regards

Re: direct rendering on i810

Quote:

Originally posted by luminiscence
Hi all,
I had Suse installed on my comp earlier, and direct rendering worked in it. I have just installed gentoo, and I don't know what to do to make direct rendering work. Movies and stuff are working perfectly, but when I do
glxinfo | grep rendering
Then it returns "direct renderng:no". Similarly glxgears gives a fps of 100.

I have Intel 845 motherboard (I guess the graphics driver is i810). I am pasting my xorg.conf below:

Code:

############################################################ Section "Module" Load "dri" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "intel-test" Driver "i810" VideoRam 16384 EndSection Section "Screen" DefaultDepth 24 EndSection

Can anyone help me to start direct rendering? Any help/pointers would be helpful.

Thanks

You have "dri" enabled in your config, so the first step is correct.
If i remember correctly, the i810 driver supports dri only on some depths.

Code:

from the i810(4) manpage

The driver supports hardware accelerated 3D via the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI), but only in depth 16 for the i810/i815 and depths 16 and 24 for the 830M and later.

Since you have 845 chipset, dri should work with 24 bit depth also.
Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see the error.
For example in my i810 it used to have "24 bit depth, disabling dri" error (not exact message but something like that)
Maybe there is something that disables dri