Intel 865G and X.Org 6.8.1

[Alan Hourihane]

On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 13:38 -0800, JCA wrote:
>         I am using X.Org 6.8.1 as shipped with Slackware 10.1. My
> graphics adaptor is identified by lspci as follows:
> 
>         00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P DRAM
> Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
> 
>         My xorg.conf file uses the i810 driver.
> 
>         The problem is that, although I can use X all right, according
> to glxinfo direct rendering is not supported. Since I understand that
> the 865G chipset supports direct rendering, I guess that I must be
> doing something wrong.
> 
>         Here is some more info:
> 
>         1) The relevant modules that my 2.6.11 kernel loads are
> intel_mch_agp, intel_agp, agpgart. In my kernel/drivers/char/drm
> directory I also have drm.ko, i810.ko and i830.ko, but those get never
> loaded. I tried loading them by hand (in several combinations) and
> restarting X, but still no direct rendering.

Here lies the problem. You need to build the i915.ko module.

Alan.