I’ve been having troubles for a while with the Intel GM965 3D acceleration
It is far far more complicated than with the nvidia installation packages from nvidia…
Part of my problem is related to the fact that I configure one machine ; I can spend 3 weeks installing / configuring …
then, I do disk backups to other PCs / Laptops so that I have a fleet of machines configured the exact same way
Currently, my opensuse 11.4 runs on a Dell D630 with the Intel GM965
but the whole disk comes from another D630 with the nvidia card (and yes, it has the famous nvidia problem of the horizontal lines)
I’m been having problems activating the 3D on this laptop…required for Stellarium ! and Starcraft II
I’ve been fetching everything I could from Index of /repositories
to get the latest stable version of the drivers ; see: Intel Linux Graphics: 2011Q4
My Target:
3D driver: mesa 7.11.2 release
2D driver: xf86-video-intel 2.17.0 release
Libdrm: libdrm-2.4.27 release
Libva: libva-1.0.15 release
Vaapi-driver-intel: vaapi-driver-intel-1.0.15 release
By the way…if someone can show me how to extract a directory listing of the whole structure of Index of /repositories …it would save me time
because my only option no is to search manually…or get everything using wget !!
now, I’m writing this because I think I found a big part of my problem
It seems there is a script command in xinitrc.common to look for a file named .nvidia-settings-rc in the home directory of the user
in which case it calls nvidia-settings …
And since my disk used to run the nvidia driver, then everything is present and I think nvidia-setting screws-up the rest of the intel GM965 package
After removing the .nvidia-settings-rc file from my home folder,
I rebooted, and sysinfo: now shows that I have a 3D driver,
and Stellatium now starts (it can use the OpenGL 3D driver)
The only problem is that when I logged in,
KWin crashed with the following stack dump: (but besides that popup, everything looks ok)
Application: KWin (kwin), signal: Segmentation fault
[KCrash Handler]
#6 0x00007f53159584c0 in __memcpy_ssse3 () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#7 0x00007f5313190d05 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1
#8 0x00007f52fd785a30 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/kde4/kwin4_effect_builtins.so
#9 0x00007f52fd78263d in ?? () from /usr/lib64/kde4/kwin4_effect_builtins.so
#10 0x00007f52fd7827c7 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/kde4/kwin4_effect_builtins.so
#11 0x00007f52fd782876 in effect_create_kwin4_effect_blur () from /usr/lib64/kde4/kwin4_effect_builtins.so
#12 0x00007f5315ca76bf in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libkdeinit4_kwin.so
#13 0x00007f5315ca88d1 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libkdeinit4_kwin.so
#14 0x00007f5315c843f6 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libkdeinit4_kwin.so
#15 0x00007f5315c0a6dd in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libkdeinit4_kwin.so
#16 0x00007f5315c21f2e in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libkdeinit4_kwin.so
#17 0x00007f5315c23931 in kdemain () from /usr/lib64/libkdeinit4_kwin.so
#18 0x00007f531585a1bd in __libc_start_main () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#19 0x0000000000400699 in _start ()
I will put back the init file to confirm that this was the cause of the problem
hope this can help others