[nflug] Intel 950 Accelerated Graphics & Ubuntu

[Joe]

Jesse Jarzynka wrote:
> Joe wrote:
>> 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
>>
> I'm gonna guess an actual install will fix the CPU stuff. It's 
> probably as simple as installing the linux-686 kernel package which 
> has SMP enabled by default now (no more smp specific kernels). As far 
> as the graphics, the 900 chipset is actually very good because you can 
> use the open source Linux driver and get hardware acceleration. See 
> this post on Aiglx and Compiz in Dapper, only do the driver part though:
> http://corvillus.com/2006/08/03/how-to-set-up-aiglx-and-compiz-on-ubuntu-606-running-gnome/ 
>
>
> Something else that is interesting is yesterday Intel announced it was 
> open sourcing it's 960 chipset drivers:
> http://news.com.com/Intel+aims+for+open-source+graphics+advantage/2100-7344_3-6103941.html 
>
Thanks.  I'll check out those links as soon as I can.
Today, I rechecked glxinfo and it said the acceleration was on.  We got 
wifi working in the store and sound is OK, so the Toshiba is a go.  I 
still have to check the HP (hopefully tomorrow).

Joe
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