[ltp] R52 - Xorg/DRI/GLX - 18586MM

[Laurent Gilson]

Hello,

> Well, as I said I'm running 2.6.11, not the latest kernel, but I'm  
> reluctant to change with all the fun I had making my pretend SATA drive  
> work, or should that be pretend PATA drive, who knows? I also recall  
> having lots of fun making other stuff work like wireless and sleep, so  
> not that keen to change unless someone here has

(Thinkpad)-support gets better with newer kernels. Chances are you will  
not even need to do something for SATA and sleep.

> I did do a modprobe i915, but that made no difference. It loaded the  
> module that came with the DRI-snapshot stuff, but didn't seem to make  
> any impact anywhere.
>
> The logs don't seem to show anything that is any form of error.

Post them somewhere.

> I've now tried about seven or so different forms of xorg.conf with no  
> actual progress.

Post them too.

> My experience tells me that if there is no answer in google, then I'm  
> likely looking for the wrong problem, indicating that perhaps there is  
> something else that I'm missing.

Did you install a hardware accelerated glx/mesa ?

> What are the pre-requisites for making Xorg work, and then, what do I  
> need for DRI/GLX, and finally, what do I need to be able to expand my  
> desktop onto the external VGA connector.

Dualhead and GLX have never been close friends. One may prevent the other  
 from happening.

cu