I have a machine with a
Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device
graphics card

Sweet Home 3d worked fine under ubuntu 9.04

Upgrading to ubuntu 9.10 has broken it.

First thing I tried was xvinfo which reported no adapter so I googled and found out that adding "i915.modeset=0 nomodeset" to my kernel lines
fixes that and xvinfo now returns a load of lines.

However sweet home 3d still gives
"Sweet Home 3D will exit now because of a fatal error in 3D rendering system. Please update the DirectX/OpenGL drivers of your computer graphics card."