Intel 865 problems

Question

I have the i865 intel on board graphics but have no 3d acceleration. I tried to use the patch for the i915 module but after running "sh install.sh" I got the message that DRI drivers cannot be installed without the latest kernel modules. But I am up to date with everything.

Answer 1

1) you did load the GLX module in xorg.conf, right? (the line above the one with dri)
2) DRI needs extra memory (no idea what exactly is behind this as my knowledge isn't that deep), so it might be that if you for instance have allocated 8MB for the card in your bios. if you then try to run 1280x1024-24 (possible) there might not be enough left. so it's a good idea to increase the ammount of memory. twice of what you expect your desktop resolution to take up is always a good idea.
my xorg.xonf snippet:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel"
Driver "i810"
#Driver "intel" # package is on the aur ;-)
VideoRam 32768
Option "DDC" "false"
#Option "VBERestore" "true"
#Option "Rotation" "270"
#Option "Xvideo" "true"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen"
Device "Intel"
Monitor "Monitor"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1366x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group "users"
Mode 0666
EndSection
and a snippet from a successfully enabled DRI:
(II) I810(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
Screen to screen bit blits
Solid filled rectangles
8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles
Indirect CPU to Screen color expansion
Solid Horizontal and Vertical Lines
Offscreen Pixmaps
Setting up tile and stipple cache:
32 128x128 slots
11 256x256 slots
(==) I810(0): Backing store disabled
(==) I810(0): Silken mouse enabled
(II) I810(0): Initializing HW Cursor
(II) I810(0): X context handle = 0x00000001
(II) I810(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler
(II) I810(0): [DRI] installation complete
(II) I810(0): direct rendering: Enabled
(==) RandR enabled