4500mhd gfx drivers


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I apologize if this topic has already been discussed somewhere on the forum.

I'm currently running Ubuntu 8.10 on Sony VIAO NS, with intel 4500mhd gm45. Now display works great and supports the required resolutions. However, trying to run Nexuiz (as a test) it crashes almost immediately. I have downloaded what I think are the right drivers for my video card: "http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/commit/?id=1cfe769c74d1a3a392bf1aaaf5c2dcc8273daf66" but I cannot install them, nor do I know how to really.

I have been using linux for less then a week, so if anyone could perhaps either tell me how to install the latest drivers or install the one's I obtained (given they are right for me) it would be very much appreciated.

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Well, let's see if direct videocard rendering is currently enabled in your config.

Open a terminal, and paste the following into it:

glxinfo | grep render

It should reply with

direct rendering: Yes

Also, for a 3D rendering check, run the app glxgears. Just type glxgears in your terminal and see what you get for framerates.

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Ok, the driver is installed and working already.

Let me look for more info...

It looks like that is a reduced feature chipset for laptops, so the problem may be that your settings in your game are too high. Is it possible to reduce the game to minimal settings and see if you still get the crashes? Your first post wasn't clear if the crash was on start of game, or when the app is trying to start up.

Another EDIT: For diagnostic purposes, you can try another 3D enabled game, but one that isn't so GPU intensive. Do a

sudo apt-get install planetpenguin-racer

(again, just select the text here in your browser, and middle-click in an open terminal)

That will install ppracer game which is just a penguin sliding down a snowy slope, gathering herring. But it will show if your system can play this game, and just has problems with Nexuiz.

Edited by markjensen
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Well the first time I got the problem was trying to run Guild Wars through Wine. It complained about the graphics drivers. So I downloaded Nexuiz to try it out, see where the problem is, that dies on entering the main menu, it all goes blocky, on their faq, it says to check drivers in event getting a black screen or blocks (what I'm getting). I know this is an onboard gfx card, but it runs Half-Life 2 on 1200x800 with 15 ish fps on vista (well it did until I installed linux) so I would hope it would be capable of running a simple 3d menu of a linux game. It supports 4.0 shaders and dx10(I know its irrelevant in linux, however it gives an idea about it's capabilities) Sorry about wall of text, hope that brings clarity to the issue.

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Hmm, the penguin racer game seems to be working fine. So I guess its application specific issue, as opposed to graphic driver's. Not quite sure if thats good, now I don't know where to look for the solution regarding not working nexuiz and guild wars.

Edit: Hold on, now my Nexuiz menu is working... The mysteries

Edit2: And the game runs, its on low setting and choppy, but at least runs...

I guess the drivers installed when I ran autogen.sh:

#! /bin/sh

srcdir=`dirname $0`

test -z "$srcdir" && srcdir=.

ORIGDIR=`pwd`

cd $srcdir

autoreconf -v --install || exit 1

cd $ORIGDIR || exit $?

$srcdir/configure --enable-maintainer-mode "$@"

Its just that nothing happened after running it, so I assumed it didn't do anything.

However it feels like my gfx card should be performing better, tip how I can look at config or perhaps its not the latest release of the driver?

Edited by Zapadlo
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The latest stable releases will automatically come to you through the package manager. You don't need to go out and look for anything, unless you want more bleeding edge.

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Nope. You have OpenGL.

If you feel you are still having performance issues, you could use some more advanced troubleshooting than I can offer, I am afraid. :(

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