Blender in Slackware 12.1 Intel card i915 driver

[folkenfanel]

Has anyone used Blender in Slackware 12.1 with an Intel video card?

I have tried with the i865G and the GMA950. Segmentation fault.

The debugger says it's a problem with a primitive in a function managed by the i915 X driver. I do think it's a problem with the X driver. It worked in Slackware 12.0.

The interesting lines from gdb

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0xb77c26d0 (LWP 8545)]
0xb7590e87 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/i915_dri.so
(gdb) backtrace
#0  0xb7590e87 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/i915_dri.so
#1  0x09258ac0 in ?? ()
#2  0x092bb288 in ?? ()
#3  0xbfd01258 in ?? ()
#4  0xb7574a02 in intelStartInlinePrimitive ()
   from /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/i915_dri.so
#5  0xb7613580 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/i915_dri.so

I will try using the old driver, but I would not consider that a solution. Has anyone made Blender run in Slackware 12.1 out there?

Thanks in advance.

[cwwilson721]

Try reinstalling the i810 package. It seems the default install for SW12.1 The basic install overwrites this with the intel package, and causes many issues with the i810 family of chipsets (X seems not to work with the intel driver).

upgradepkg --reinstall xf86-video-i810-1.7.4-i486-1.tgz