Problems with kernel and video card

Asked by Daniel Rodriguez

Here is my problem:

Going to tell you my history, maybe I don't need to do this, so thanks for your time, and help :).

I was checking on wine, because some games that are not suppose to run slow on my computer specs are running slow, so I was reading about wine.

I found that if I have this config on "wine.log"and means that my video card its not installed correct:
trace:wgl:wglGetProcAddress func: 'glAccum'
trace:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo GL version : 1.4 Mesa 7.7.1.
trace:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo GL renderer : Mesa DRI Intel(R) 915GM GEM 20091221 2009Q4 x86/MMX/SSE2.
trace:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo GLX version : 1.2.
trace:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo Server GLX version : 1.2.
trace:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo Server GLX vendor: : SGI.
trace:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo Client GLX version : 1.4.
trace:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo Client GLX vendor: : Mesa Project and SGI.
trace:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo Direct rendering enabled: True

Then, I downloaded the "Linux" driver for my video card on intel (its a file from 2004): called i915Graphics.tar.gz.

After downloading it, searching on the web a tutorial to install it, I found what to do and then terminal showed this:

Compiling new agpgart module...

ERROR: AGPGART module did not compile

Compiling DRM module...

ERROR: Kernel modules did not compile

The DRI drivers can not be installed without the latest kernel modules.
Installation will be aborted. See the dri.log file for information on
what went wrong.

And this is the log file:

make -C /lib/modules/2.6.32-23-generic/build SUBDIRS=/home/rold/tars/dripkg/agpgart-2.0 modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.32-23-generic/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [default] Error 2
Makefile.linux:151: *** Cannot find a kernel config file. Stop.

Video chipset: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express chipset Family (or something like this)

Hope someone can tell me what to do, maybe I'm looking on the wrong place for my problem. My basic problem is that I think I dont have the correct driver for my video card. and I want to know how to check how many video memory wine use :).

Thank you very much :)

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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Federico Tello Gentile (federicotg) said :
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The intel driver you have downloaded from 2004 is useless. The default one in the default ubuntu kernel is probably the same one or better.
It is normal the 2004 code does not compile to a 2010 kernel.

That intel video chip is not very fast (no Intel video is fast) so it is normal games run slowly, specially on wine.

From the wine.log you show there, I don't see why you think video is not set up correctly: you have direct rendering and hardware acceleration.

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Daniel Rodriguez (avanti-rold) said :
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I suposed that because I read it from here:

http://wiki.winehq.org/3DDriverIssues

Can you tell me if thats wrong?

Well if that so, thank you very much guys, both helped.

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Federico Tello Gentile (federicotg) said :
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Your output does not say "Mesa GLX Indirect" or "Software Rasterizer". The opengl renerer is Intel, but apparently the hardware is not fast enough for your expectations.

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Daniel Rodriguez (avanti-rold) said :
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OOOk :), Thank you, SOLVED!