I just installed Redhat 9 on my Thinkpad X30 which has an Intel 830 video card.

The basic display system works fine after installation: it probes an Intel 810 video card, and I designated the monitor as a generic LCD 1024x768. The X and Gnome works fine.

But after I compiled mplayer(0.9 Pre 5) and tried to full screenly play a divx movie, it just has half of the picture. And I noticed that in system settings -> display -> advanced: The "Enable Hardware 3D Acceleration" is grayed and cannot be checked.

I updated XFree86 to 4.4 but it is still the same. The lsmod shows:
Module Size Used by Not tainted
i830 74336 1
agpgart 47776 12 (autoclean)

So the driver should be loaded. And according to /var/log/XFree86.0.log, the DRI and DRM modules are both loaded correctly.

I tried to install the Intel 830 driver for Linux, but I got the "Kernel module did not compile" error.

what does "glxinfo" say?

The glxinfo output:

name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.2
client glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_allocate_memory,
GLX_MESA_swap_control, GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
GLX extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_visual_info,
GLX_EXT_visual_rating
OpenGL vendor string: VA Linux, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 830M 20021115 x86/MMX/SSE
OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 5.0.2
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multisample, GL_ARB_multitexture,
GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, GL_ARB_texture_compression,
GL_ARB_texture_env_add, GL_ARB_texture_env_combine,
GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat,
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_ARB_window_pos, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra,
GL_EXT_blend_color, GL_EXT_blend_func_separate, GL_EXT_blend_minmax,
GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint,
GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array, GL_EXT_convolution, GL_EXT_copy_texture,
GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_histogram,
GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_polygon_offset, GL_EXT_rescale_normal,
GL_EXT_secondary_color, GL_EXT_separate_specular_color,
GL_EXT_stencil_wrap, GL_EXT_subtexture, GL_EXT_texture, GL_EXT_texture3D,
GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_env_add,
GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3,
GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic, GL_EXT_texture_object,
GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias, GL_EXT_vertex_array, GL_APPLE_packed_pixels,
GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip, GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat,
GL_INGR_blend_func_separate, GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture, GL_MESA_window_pos,
GL_NV_texture_rectangle, GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_SGI_color_matrix,
GL_SGI_color_table, GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp,
GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_lod
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess

visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x22 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x23 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x24 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x25 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x26 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 0 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x27 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 0 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x28 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x29 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow

well, glxinfo yes direct rendering is on (3d hardware acceleration)

so i don't know what the problem is (it might be grayed for multiple reasons .. maybe it cant choose to not has it on?)

so on the bight sides games work fine then (oh, and by the way, 3d hardware acceleration has nothing to do with the mplayer in full screen ... unless you use gl or gl2 display drivers for it .. then direct rendering (hardware acceleration) makes it run smoothly (well, for me at least ... full screen with no direct rendering for me it was all choppy.. very choppy)

anyways ... use a different video driver for mplayer ... type

mplayer -vo help

for a list of possible ones ... if you chose xv then type

mplayer -vo xv /path/to/move

and see what happens.. just go down the list till you find the one you like best (note: don't use drivers like jpeg, png, or things that look more like file formats ... the reason : jpeg driver outputs all the frames as jpeg files in the correct directory! (good to convert movies into pictures, bad for viewing movies )

Yeah, maybe it is just a bug of redhat-config-monitor.


Unfortunately, I then tried a snapshot for 830 on dri.sourceforge.net and it screwed things up. It will say "unresolved symbol in ............../i830.o"

I revert back to XFree 4.3, and upgrade to 4.4. Then the DRI doesn't work anymore, if use modprobe i830, will will say: kernel module mismatch.

And I errorly deleted /lib/modules/kernal/2.4.20-8/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.

Looks like it is all messed up.

yea .. get just reinstall the kernel (ill assume you didn't make it yourself) , just be sure to delete the modules first, then reinstall XFree86 and see if it works again then

What do you mean by "reinstall the kernel"? I haven't compiled the kernel yet, but I plan to do that when I have more time.

Regarding the modules, anybody know what XFree86 installation added/changed? I only backed up /etc/X11, /etc/fonts, /usr/X11R6, but looks like it also added something elsewhere.

I would like to revert back to 4.3 and reinstall 4.4.

The 4.4 installation will compile the DRM ( I downloaded the DRM tgz ), but why it then shows "kernel mismatch"? Shall I do a make oldconfig first?

I cannot solve the problem for you. Here is a suggestion. Try "make dep" for kernel source...