First of all, I don't want any "integrated cards suck, get a real graphic card and gtfo". I know that already, I'm using a laptop, I can't change the hardware.
Back the the matter at hand. FSO used to run flawlessly on Windows (until I was swarmed with viruses, but that's not my point), with MVPs, Advanced and most of what you can think about, so the card itself is for sure able to run FSO. However I hit several issues on Linux.
First the meshes simply didn't want to render properly (see screenshot below), issue I managed to fix with the "Disable OpenGL VBO" option (-novbo flag).
Second, now that this problem was fixed and that I was able to render properly most ships, I've been having issues of some specific vertices not being rendered on some other ships :
Everything is rendered properly in software mode though. Also it seems to randomly crash when loading big ships, especially with MVPs, but it's barely reproducible and doesn't seem to be ship-specific.
Log is attached.
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