Holy cow I've been having some issues with the Intel G35 on linux. Especially with 3d code and screen corruption and crashing. After a lot of git pulls I finally have a setup that actually works to my expectations.
As of today I did the following
pulled drm from git, compiled and installed and thing compiled and installed the linux-core subdirectory as well
pulled mesa from git master compiled and installed
pulled xserver from git master and compiled and installed with these options
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-mesa-source=/home/kdekorte/cvs/mesa/ --with-dri -driver-path=/usr/lib/dri --enable-builtin-fonts
pulled xf86-drv-intel from the 'origin/intel-batchbuffer' branch and then compiled and installed with these options
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-xserver-source=/home/kdekorte/cvs/xserver
After all that googleearth, etracer and quake3 all work as expected. And reasonably fast. Quake gives me 90fps and for some reason I think it could give more. etracer is in the 20-25 fps range.
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Hi I also have the G35 chipset but it is running very very slow. I am a Linux newbee, is there a tutorial available on how to compile these drivers?
I suggest this site
http://intellinuxgraphics.org//install.html
hmm. i'm having problems with my new g35 mobo and fedora 9. i installed 8 gb and a q9300. install worked fine. afterwards - just black screen in x. cursor appears, then boom. read that asus mainboards don't set up mtrr correctly and disabling memory remapping should help. didn't. removed 6 gb and now with just a single 2 gb module at least vesa works. intel still doesn't.
any hints? (fedora has the 2.2.1 driver. already tried compiling 2.3.1. no change)
Actually I don't. I got so fed up with the G35 chipset either crashing or giving poor results that I ended up getting an ATI 3650 video card for my machine. (see my other blog posts).
I am now waiting for the fglrx drivers to come out for Fedora 9 so that I can upgrade.
With Fedora 11 and 12 the G35 chipset is now quite usable now that the drivers have had a years worth of work, and seems to be a decent option.
In Ubuntu 11.04 it is not working anymore. Although it seems to boot fine, on HDMI you get a total black screen. Quite pathetic!
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