[elrepo] Intel 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller

[Akemi Yagi]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Paul Allen
<paul.allen at asapventures.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> I hit this problem trying to run Google Earth with the Intel 82G33/G31
> graphics controller.  It was staggeringly slow and ate every CPU cycle I
> had.  And probably stole CPU cycles from the future, it was that slow.
>
> A lot of googling later, this appears to hit applications of the sort you
> are interested in, not just GE (but even that can be used by scientists).
>
> Even more googling later, I found one guy claiming that the driver
> sanity-checks the opcodes sent to the chip, and this chip has newer opcodes
> than the driver knows about.  Google sends these new opcodes and the driver
> complains with this:
>
> libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x5b
> Can't (yet) swizzle TEX arguments
>
> I'm running RiscOS 5.4,  2.6.18-164.9.1.el5xen kernel.
>
 (snip)
>
> This is probably way down your priorities list.  There may not yet be an
> upstream fix (but if the google post I saw about sanity-checking opcodes is
> right, a quick and dirty fix seems feasible).  Over to you.
>
> --
> Paul

Thanks for writing to us.  After having read through your mail, it is
not quite clear what exactly it is that you'd like us to do.  Would
you mind rephrasing the query by specifying the task that is supposed
to be achieved?

Regards,

Akemi