Weird Intel Graphics driver issue (Not the resolution one! :))

[ibpalle]

Hi

I'm on FC6, latest kernel

I got myself a P5B-VM for my FS and it's got the G965 chipset and Intel GMA3000 (or is it the X3000). In any case, I can use the i810 driver (but cant get the widescreen resolution) and desktop effects works great.

If I use the Intel driver and add a modeline for my WS res, then I can use the intel driver and it works fine BUT when I enable the desktop effects, an about 25 pixel wide black bar appears surrounding all open windows.

Which is really annoying as the effect are so kewl

Anyways, I was wondering if anyone had any tips to troubleshoot this or if someone have had the same issue?

[danwaineo]

You might want to try FC7 Test 3. That worked for my widescreen display (1280x720). The intel driver has changed rapidly, and I don't think it supports G965 in FC6. I'm surprised you got it working at all.

-Dan

[ibpalle]

Why thank you
There were notes in the release about the intel driver that helped but there was bit of teeth grinding involved.
Good to hear it has improved in fc7. I realised theres the composite overlay section option somewhere I may have omitted. Going to try that.

[ibpalle]

No, putting the composite in there didn't help. I can live with it for now and will look forward to fc7 Burning the test3 live cd now to test it.

[ibpalle]

Hi again

Tried FC7 Test3 and the black bar remains No resolution issues this time around, so the modesetting version clearly works a lot better than the previous version. All looks good, now it's just the black bar surrounding open windows and the panels.

Using the i820 the resolution cannot be set to widescreen but the desktop effects work fine. Using the Intel driver, resolution works but desktop effects have the black bar where shadows and transparency should be

Apparently noone has tried desktop effects on g965 yet ...

[danwaineo]

Well, it's working for me (Intel DG965OT) with FC7T3. Are you booting from the CD? I switched to the intel driver using the menu then hit cntrl-alt-backspace. After enabling desktop effects everything looked great.

[ibpalle]

Originally Posted by danwaineo

Well, it's working for me (Intel DG965OT) with FC7T3. Are you booting from the CD? I switched to the intel driver using the menu then hit ctrl-alt-backspace. After enabling desktop effects everything looked great.

I actually installed the test3 on a separate disk, as I wanted to have my ole fc6 handy. Selected the Intel driver and restarted X. Then I enabled the effects and the black bars Would you mind pasting your xorg.conf here so I can have a peek. Not that I think anything special is in there - I am starting to wonder if the graphics chip is buggered, there were apparently some issues with the first 965 chips

Heres mine:

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "single head configuration"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "intel"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

[danwaineo]

Well mine is exactly the same as yours. Bummer...

[ibpalle]

Thanx for confirming that. Ahhwell, the effects cant be enabled when using VNC, so it's not too important. Just a nicety.

[ibpalle]

Yay! Tried FC7Test4 (64 bit edition no less) and everything worked. Correct resolution and desktop effects without black bars

Happy camper, well impressed with FC7 so far.

[danwaineo]

Originally Posted by ibpalle

Yay! Tried FC7Test4 (64 bit edition no less) and everything worked. Correct resolution and desktop effects without black bars

Happy camper, well impressed with FC7 so far.

Great! I'm glad it's working.

Don't you love getting 3D drivers out of the box?

-Dan

[ibpalle]

I sure do Sorry bout the late reply - been too busy gloating over the 3d effect

[rv78]

on a g33 i had to add
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "extmod"
Load "dri"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

to get direct rendering and 3d accel

[rv78]

its finally working forget my last post ajax from #fedora-devel on irc gave me this hint
and it worked on fc7 64
yum --enablerepo=development upgrade mesa-libGL
and nvidia driver on xorg.conf

[rv78]

ups the driver is intel not nvidia, :P i need to sleep more