[Sussex] Help with i810 and friends on a dell laptop

[Rupert Swarbrick]

OK. I've finally decided to try getting graphics acceleration working on
my Dell 500m laptop.

It's got horrible integrated graphics (lspci=):
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM
Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated
Graphics Device (rev 02)

But that's OK - theres a nice driver called i810 which takes care of
them properly together with i830 and i915 (I don't really understand...)

But how about 3D/DRI? I've put the normal DRI directives into my
xorg.conf file (oh yeah, sorry - xorg, not XFree) and in fact the
Xorg.log file reports that direct rendering has been enabled.

It's lying! glxinfo disagrees and glxgears gives me ~230 FPS with 100%
cpu usage - presumably not done in hardware, then!

I'm happy to post logs/config files if anyone would like to see them,
but thought it might be considered rude on the 1st post.

If anyone else has had experience getting things working with this yucky
graphics card, I'd be grateful for any help,

Rupert

P.S. I'm inundated in A-level exams at the moment, ending this week, so
I apologise if I take a day or so to reply on occasion!
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