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As I said in step 3, you don't need to test the configuration via SaX2. 3D should be configured automatically. Unfortunately, SaX2 doesn't understand it any more for some reason. The way to check if you have 3D acceleration is not via SaX2, but by running
glxgears | grep direct
The output should be
Direct Rendering: Yes
Now, for the i810 driver which should be properly configured if you followed the steps above, you should have in your xorg.conf file the following in the section "Device" with the BoardName and BusID options different since you have the 855, not the 915 as I do
Section "Device"
BoardName "915 GM"
BusID "0:2:0"
Driver "i810"
Identifier "Device[0]"
Option "NoDDC"
Option "LinearAlloc" "65536"
VendorName "Intel"
EndSection
The option LinearAlloc specifies the memory used by the graphics card. In my case, I have set it to 64MB ( 64*1024 ).
To go back to the "intel" driver, just use SaX2 without any extra arguments. For the "intel" driver that ships with 10.3 I'm afraid I do not know how to manually allocate memory.
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Sorry it took me so long to reply... I tried to run the "glxgears | grep direct" command, nothing happened except opening glxgears. Is this command supposed to print info to a file or something? All of my info matches the above "Device Section" of the xorg.conf file. But, one major thing that I've noticed after following these instructions is that my 3D "Euphoria" screensaver has gotten extremely choppy! It used to flow so nicely before I made these changes. How can I get things back to the way that they were? I think that for my chipset, those were probably the best settings.