[nflug] Intel 950 Accelerated Graphics & Ubuntu

[Joe]

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?

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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