topic title: Enable 3D Acceleration on Intel Mobile Series Video
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afab4
Joined: 17 Oct 2009
#1
If you happen to be blessed with Intel Mobile Series Video in your laptop, you will soon discover you have no 3D acceleration/GLX/openGL installed, or at least operational.
After looking through many forums, I found the fix for this.
In a root terminal run:

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apt-get purge nvidia*
apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-video-intel  libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri xserver-xorg-core
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
update-alternatives --remove gl_conf /usr/lib/nvidia-current/ld.so.conf
When you complete this procedure you should see the following when you run antixcc>Hardware>PC Information>Graphics

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GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel GM45 Express Chipset x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 7.11.
Applies to:
Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960, 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
Posts: 609
dark-D
Joined: 02 Jun 2008
#2
try inxi -Gx to see if direct rendering is on:

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inxi -Gx
Graphics:  Card: Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) bus-ID: 00:02.0 
           X.Org: 1.12.1.902 driver: Resolution: 1280x800@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 965GM x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Direct Rendering: Yes