Some more info concerning the problem with 3D on intel cards.
I paste my conclusions I sent via mail with someone.
Q: - Just one thing I have noticed when testing here is that even
though "direct rendering" is active I don't like the graphics performance
when testing with for instance google earth.
In the computer I am testing with has the graphics card is "Intel GMA
X4500HD (Graphics Media Accelerator)".
A: it is a G45 chip:
http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/c ... erview.htm
I suggested to replace drm.ko with drm.bak.
The result in Xorg.0.log then was:
drm.ko seems to start fine according to the log.
Strangely, after dri installed successfully, you get a memory error:
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(II) intel(0): [DRI] installation complete
(II) intel(0): xf86BindGARTMemory: bind key 0 at 0x03f7f000 (pgoffset 16255)
(WW) intel(0): xf86BindGARTMemory: binding of gart memory with key 0
at offset 0x3f7f000 failed (Invalid argument)
Fatal server error:
Couldn't bind memory for HW status
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I never saw such an error before.
Maybe with the log of your former setup, I can get an important hint.
Please also attach /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
I then was sent the Xorg.0.log with the "original" drm.ko, X starts here.
My conclusion:
ok, this clarifies things, but no solution.
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[drm] failed to load kernel module "i915"
(EE) [drm] drmOpen failed.
(EE) intel(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI.
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As you now have the "wrong", first drm.ko, the required dri-kernelmodule (i915.ko) cannot be loaded.
So you have no dri.
In consequence you get:
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(II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0
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This is the SOFTWARE renderer for OpenGL.
It is slow, but works.
So it was correct (in theory) to use dri.bak instead, because it enabled hardware accellerated dri.
Unfortunately it causes the memory error.
In the thread for the old puplet, wow wrote about problems with the new dri driver.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... &start=240
I think on the pages before, there already was a request concerning intel cards.
Yes, was here (for the old kernel):
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... &start=195
At moment, I have no solution, just wanted to let you know, what the logs told me.
Maybe I get another idea by googling.
The best solution would be, if I had such a computer for tests, so I could try to compile some packages on my own.
I will however post my results to the lxdepup thread.
Maybe wow has another idea.
Mark
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I attach the logs and conf.