intel graphics card questions

[Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:25:05PM -0600, Chris Lemire wrote:
> The Ati card on my friend's computer will not work in Linux. I got a
> long backtrace when booting Linux using that graphics card. So I must
> use the onboard video card. Vista was giving problems, so my friend
> decided to remove it. We used that hard drive for an ext3 partition to
> mount at /home. The intel graphics card is this.
> 
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G965 Integrated
> Graphics Controller (rev 02)
> 
> Is it possible to get 3d acceleration with this graphics card? It
> should be. He was using Areo in Vista before he removed Vista. How can
> it be done if possible with Linux? My friend would like to use compiz
> fusion.

I presume you're using Ubuntu 7.10 on this computer?

Intel 965 works great, with one caveat: you either get a 3D desktop or
accelerated video playback.  The Ubuntu developers made a choice for the
latter and disabled compiz for this video chipset.

If you want to get Compiz, you'll have to re-enable compiz by typing
this in a terminal window:

  echo SKIP_CHECKS=yes > ~/.config/compiz/compiz-manager

Now you can use System -> Preferences -> Appearance to enable Desktop
Effects.

To get video playback you'll have to run gstreamer-properties and
select X Window System (no Xv) as the video output plugin.

My laptop has a mobile version of this chip and I use compiz on it
daily:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)

HTH,
Marius Gedminas
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