On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Jan de Groot <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 22:09 -0500, Eric Bélanger wrote: >> I'm having problems with the intel drivers and OpenGL. With OpenGL >> sceensavers, I don't really know how to describe it but I can guess >> what's on the screen but it's garbled. With some OpenGL games, I get >> a black screen. I get the following message on the terminal: >> get fences failed: -1 >> param: 6, val: 0 >> >> I also get that message when running glxgears which works fine. My >> video card: >> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM >> Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) >> 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated >> Graphics Device (rev 02) > > Intel has no special interest in the 8xx drivers anymore, so I assume > this is broken and will stay broken for a while. > Can you try replacing /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/i810_dri.so with the > version from intel-dri in extra and test again? I might want to revert > just the i810 driver for this. Using the intel-dri from extra with the xorg-server and xf86-video-intel from testing doesn't work. It makes all OpenGL apps segfaults. > > The get fences warning is the same I get. This is because the kernel DRM > drivers for intel don't have all the features the mesa DRI driver has. I > hope this will get fixed with 2.6.29, but I'm not sure about that. The > warning is harmless, but I can imagine people will file bugs for it the > same way they did for the "Failed to initialize TTM, falling back to > classic" messages. > >
