I just tested a Hardy live CD and intel appears to be the default
driver instead of i810 and direct rendering is now enabled by default.
Better late than never I guess.
Could someone else confirm this?
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No direct rendering by default with i810/i815 video
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/68607
Actually, this has been fixed by this upload to hardy:
xserver-xorg-video-intel (2:2.2.0+git20080107-1ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low
.
* Merge from debian unstable, remaining changes:
- debian/patches
+ 01_fix_compiz_video.diff:
use xf86XVFillKeyHelperDrawable() to fix
We won't be changing the configuration to make them use 16bit, instead
the driver should be patched to do that if necessary.
Anyway, you should try the newer driver intel, which could already
work correctly.
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: xorg =
I have a machine which uses i810 video. I set the VideoRam parameter to
16384 and the X screen depth to 16 bits by editing xorg.conf and that
allowed me to enable DRI.
To make doing that easier, the Screens and Graphics applet should be
modified to allow the user to set the screen depth (and
I'm not particularly fond of forcefully enabling DRI on these chipsets,
if 16 bpp color depths are necessary for this.
I don't have one of these handy but would be curious to hear your
opinion on how well they run 3D applications and a compositing window
manager.
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
My concern is not so much about the compositing window managers as it is
for the 3D screensavers that Ubuntu ships by default. Some of these tend
to lock up a system when being rendered in software. There are also
several 3D games in the repositories that run much better with DRI
enabled.
The
I think it also needs to give 32M ram to i810 to have direct rendering.
If this is technically easy it would be very nice.
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No direct rendering by default with i810/i815 video
https://launchpad.net/bugs/68607
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