i915 kernel module needed for DRI on i8[456]5

[Julien Olivier]

Since I replaced XFree with Xorg, I lost 3D acceleration:

julien@lifebook ~ $ glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: No
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect

From lspci:

0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated
Graphics Device (rev 02)

Please not that 3D acceleration used to work with Xorg on Fedora Core on this
same laptop.

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

Herbert, can we please get the i915 DRM module?

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Where can this module be found? Has it been submitted upstream?

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

cvs -d :pserver:<email address hidden>:/cvs/dri co drm

Alternately, looking at a Red Hat bug report Google turned up, it appears that
the module has been merged into FC3, so it might be easier to pull it from
Fedora's patchset.

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto (fabbione)]

Fixed in linux-image-2.6.9

[Julien Olivier (julo)]

With linux-image-2.6.10-2-386, I lost 3D acceleration again although the i915
module seems to be there:

julien@lifebook ~ $ glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: No
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
julien@lifebook ~ $ lsmod | grep i915
i915 72164 3

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 12061.