[nflug] Intel 950 Accelerated Graphics & Ubuntu

[Joe]

Rendering is on! and we got wifi to work too.  Thanks.  On to the HP.

Joe

joshj at linuxmail.org wrote:
> When we last left our adventurers...
>
>> Went to the store with a Dapper Drake CD.  I worked on the Toshiba so 
>> far. I'm going back tomorrow for the HP.
>>
>> 1) Boots fine once you use ESC during boot to get into the BIOS so 
>> you can set it to boot off the cdrom.
>> 2) Sound seems to work OK, but pretty soft.  (I set the mixer output 
>> up.)
>> 3) I got an mpeg movie to play, but was unsure of the quality.
>> 4) USB flash drive OK.
>> The hard drive is /dev/sda1 (for access to windoze stuff) and the usb 
>> flash drive is /dev/sdb1 and automounts/dismounts nicely - offering 
>> you a konqueror window to browse it with.
>>
>> Questions/problems:
>> 1) How do I "stress" the Intel 950 Graphics accelerator enough to be 
>> sure it (the driver) works correctly?
>>      BTW Linux sees it as a 945 chipset.
>> 2) dmesg error messages (on Live CD)
>>    a) Warning:# of CPU's limit of 1 reached - Processor ignored
>>    b) APIC error on cpu 0 40(40)
>>         Got this one about 16 times along with some sort of table of 
>> values that I didn't understand.
>>         Since this is a chipset that has to do with SMP support, 
>> maybe this has to do with problem (a).
>> 3) Ran glxinfo and got a lot of output I didn't understand.  Is there 
>> some key piece of data in it that will tell me if the 950 works?
>>  The only thing that caught my interest was a table of values that 
>> was mostly zeros.  There were eight rows that had non-zero data in 
>> them and the last column of each said "slow".  That doesn't look too 
>> encouraging.
>> 4) Will actually installing it on the notebook fix the SMP problems 
>> (and graphics?) during the install?
>
> Like Jesse said, the CPU stuff is probably nothing to worry about. To 
> check on the status of your vid driver, search glxinfo for render. 
> Mine looks like this:
>
> josh at jupiter:~$ glxinfo |grep render
> direct rendering: Yes
>     GLX_ATI_render_texture
> OpenGL renderer string: RADEON X600 SE Generic
>
> If you have "direct rendering: No", then, well, its not working. But 
> you should be able to get it to with some tweaking. If it is working 
> then some good stress-tests would be playing a dvd or high-quality 
> mpeg or playing an opengl game like tuxkart.
>
> -Josh
>
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Joe
>>
>>
>>
>> joshj at linuxmail.org wrote:
>>>  When we last left our adventurers...
>>>
>>> >  Anyone know how to get the Intel Media Accelerator 950 to work 
>>> under >  Ubuntu or any other distro?  I'm looking at two notebooks 
>>> that use it.
>>>
>>>  I assume you're talking about 3d Acceleration? Because it should 
>>> work fine
>>>  with vesa. But I used to have a comp with an intel (onboard) chip 
>>> and it
>>>  was a little tricky. It looks like people have gotten your (potential)
>>>  setup working with both the framebuffer and 3d accel in X using the 
>>> i810
>>>  driver. Ubuntu should be able to take care of it for you.
>>>
>>>  http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/2006-May/033604.html 
>>>
>>>
>>>  -Josh
>>>
>>> > >  TIA
>>> > >  Joe
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