Intel 965 graphics driver?

[Guest]

Hello everyone,
just installed in my compaq c790la laptop, but cannot find my graphics driver.
my graphic card is an Intel 965.
According to the hardware monitor widget, GPU: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03).
noticed this when I tried to add the Blue Marble widget and got the "OpenGL shaders not supported" error.
here is my xorg.conf:

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#  sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
EndSection

when I go to Applications -> System -> Hardware Drivers, no Video Driver appears, but it did in Ubuntu, so I know the drivers exist...

Thanks a lot in advance...

[ukchucktown]

Re: Intel 965 graphics driver?

I don't think the problem is your driver. I'm fairly certain you are probably using the right driver. I have the same card with a custom xorg.conf file (not the generated version) and the Blue Marble widget does not work. In the panel it shows a red X icon with the message "System does not support OpenGL widgets." I found that a bit puzzling so I ran glxinfo and noticed one item of interest...

OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 965GM GEM 20090712 2009Q2 RC3 x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.6-devel
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20

Notice in the last line the OpenGL shading is not version 2.x. I bet that has something to do with it. It's a guess but an educated one based on what I observed on my system and your post. I'm guessing we need to wait for newer version of the driver, kernel or maybe both.

UK