Intel 810 w/ SuSE 9.0: 3D but no 3D

From: Kevin Stark (w_i_z_a_r_d_9_9_9_at_h_a_i_l_m_a_i_l.net)
Date: 11/28/03 

Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 21:25:10 GMT

After having upgraded to SuSE 9.0 and XFree 4.3.0 (fresh install, was using
8.0 before) I was hoping to finally get 3D support on my Intel 830
motherboard AGP graphics card to work. Now I was looking through all the
resources available to me and right now 3D actually seems to be installed
and configured properly (SaX2 shows 3D enabled, 3Ddiag see below), but most
programs that I want to make use of it (games like armagetron in
particular) don't seem to recognize it and I am at a loss to explain why.

When I try to run the 3D games, I get the "3D hardware support not
available" warning caused by the "CheckHardware --3D" command that SuSE
puts in the menu items. For some programs - GL Chess for example - 3D works
just fine nevertheless. Most other 3D programs like armagetron however fall
back to software rendering, even if I call them directly (not from the
menu). As a sidenote armagetron was running with 3D ONCE I believe when I
had set my system resolution to 1024x768 down from 1280x1024 which is my
standard resolution, but I wasn't able to reproduce it.

I have attached 3Ddiag, 3dinfo and lsmod output, which all seems to be fine.
In particular the AGP GART module is running. All mesa packages are
installed as well. Does anybody have an idea what else to check? Thanks a
bunch.

> 3Ddiag
3Ddiag version 0.703
Verifying 3D configuration:
Using 3dinfo
************************************************************

Verifying 3D configuration based on XFree86 4 for 3D board
"Intel Corporation 82810 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (8086@7121)":

Test for correct XFree86 version ... done.

Tests for XFree86 configuration:
  Config File /etc/X11/XF86Config ... done.
  Driver ... done.
  Color Depth ... done.
  Extensions ... done.
  Options ... done.

Checking GL/GLU/glut runtime configuration:
  GL/GLU ... done (package XFree86-Mesa)
  glut ... done (package mesaglut)

> lsmod
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
au8820 143268 2 (autoclean)
soundcore 3588 0 (autoclean) [au8820]
videodev 5696 0 (autoclean)
i810 53492 0
agpgart 42040 5 (autoclean)
isa-pnp 30664 0 (unused)
ipv6 209824 -1 (autoclean)
key 63256 0 (autoclean) [ipv6]
thermal 6148 0 (unused)
processor 8248 0 [thermal]
fan 1472 0 (unused)
button 2380 0 (unused)
battery 5600 0 (unused)
ac 1664 0 (unused)
keybdev 1996 0 (unused)
mousedev 4084 0 (unused)
joydev 5120 0 (unused)
evdev 3584 0 (unused)
input 3360 0 [keybdev mousedev joydev evdev]
usb-uhci 22224 0 (unused)
usbcore 58668 1 [usb-uhci]
raw1394 16592 0 (unused)
ieee1394 183332 0 [raw1394]
af_packet 12208 0 (autoclean)
8139too 13932 1
mii 2320 0 [8139too]
ide-cd 29664 0 (autoclean)
cdrom 26752 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd]
lvm-mod 62628 0 (autoclean)
reiserfs 200084 3 

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Kevin
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