Re: Best way to update for support of Intel 915GM

[Alex D. <ale...@gm...>]

On 6/23/05, Craig Sylla <cs...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi -
>=20
> What is the best way to get all the available 3d support for the 915GM?
>=20

http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building

> Using:  FC2/2.6.5, X.org 6.8.2, with a fixed i810 driver from Alan,
> and the Intel driver package from January (which has the agpgart and
> intel-agp .ko's in it that contain the critical PCI Id's).
>=20
> I need to build the X driver from source because I have to use an
> antique version of GCC for the X server (2.96).  The kernel is built
> using GCC 3.3.3 as are all of the kernel .ko's.
>=20
> Also, I would like to run in Dual-Head (two independent screens, no
> Xinerama) w/out a window manager (Gnome, KDE, TVM) - will that work?
>=20

it should work, although dualhead on the intel hardware can be
troublesome at times.

Alex

> Thanks much -
> Craig
>