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Shane [Visitor] — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:25:16 +0000

I need help..I would like to know how to update Opengl On my Intel chipset I have a 64mb Vid card from like 2004..what is the most recent i could update it to..and how..thank you

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Josh Saddler [Member] — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:16:39 +0000

Thanks for the responses, R

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AzP [Visitor] — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:30:28 +0000

Thx for the update, great info!

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Josh Saddler [Member] — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:31:45 +0000

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R CARDONA [Member] — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:21:42 +0000

@Vladimir,

This is my blog, not a bug tracker :) please head over to https://bugs.gentoo.org to file a proper bug report.

Thanks

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Vladimir Dolzhenko [Visitor] — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:13:41 +0000

I have gentoo linux on my Toshiba laptop:
# uname -a
Linux desperado-book 2.6.24-tuxonice-r9 #1 SMP Sun Aug 17 22:40:09 MSD 2008 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5600 @ 1.83GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

xorg-server-1.4.2
xorg-x11-7.3
x11-drm-20071019 (drm module not from kernel)

Sometimes X crash with:
(EE) intel(0): underrun on pipe B!
Synaptics DeviceOff called
(EE) intel(0): underrun on pipe B!
Synaptics DeviceOff called
(II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
(II) intel(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 0
(II) intel(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 1
(II) intel(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 2
(II) intel(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 3
(II) intel(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 4

and it's impossible to start X one more time without restart all system (I mean `init 6`)

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R CARDONA [Member] — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:07:56 +0000

GMA X3100 "should" have support newer pixel and vertex shaders from OpenGL 2.0. The only issue is that the current Mesa (media-libs/mesa) does not yet support OpenGL 2.0. I think 7.1 should have it and it's definitely planned.

If you really need/want OpenGL 2.0, try using Donnie Berkholz's "x11" overlay which has live git ebuilds of all the needed bits and pieces.

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AzP [Visitor] — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:06:49 +0000

I bought a laptop and chose one with Intels GMA X3100 because I saw that their open source support was good.

But to my terrible and painful surprise that card didn't even support OpenGL2.0 (ie. shaders).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA#Table_of_GMA_graphics_cores_and_chipsets

Is this because of hardware or software support? Could they (hypothetically) add support for it in their drivers?