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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Bug #1071530
  2. Comment #19

Comment 19 for bug 1071530

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Stefan Glasenhardt (glasen) wrote :

Hi guys,

The bug is basically a "won't fix"-bug because Mesa 9.x does not support the old DRI1-based graphics-cards any longer. This means all pre-i915-chipsets have no hardware-accelerated OpenGL with Mesa 9.x and you have to use the Software-based rasterizer "LLVMpipe":

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTgzMg

To force enable "LLVMpipe" you have to add the following line to the file ".bashrc" in your users directory:

export LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1

Maybe there is a way to add the old DRI1-based drivers to Mesa 9.0 but currently