Intel GMA4500M 3D acceleration on Gentoo
I have a Thinkpad SL300.1 that originally came with Ubuntu that was able to run UrbanTerror and SecondLife at around 30~50 FPS (so I know the hardware is up to the task), but after various fallings-out with Ubuntu I installed Gentoo.
Now, no matter what I try, I cannot get 3D acceleration to work in anything other than Mesa (which is slow at best, unfortunately). If I try to use the intel xorg driver, X refuses to start, with the error Quote:
And my xorg.conf (the one that gives me a GUI to be able to work with :) ) is as follows Quote:
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This should help;
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t...ght-4500m.html |
Thankyou for the quick response. :) That topic describes exactly what I ended up doing under the guidance of a friend on IRC (Thankyou, Caitria)
I would have replied earlier that I was pointed in the direction of the solution (more "taken by the hand and led" really :P) , but the newer X.org was ignoring my keyboard and mouse settings so I couldn't log in. (It's surprisingly difficult to go back to QWERTY from dvorak...) For anyone else doing what was done here, the input device settings need to be changed to use evdev instead of the usual "mouse" and "kbd" drivers. Thus, my new input device sections look like: Code:
Section "InputDevice" Code:
=x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.6.3 ~amd64 |
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