On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 07:30:16PM +0100, Pedro Côrte-Real wrote: > On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 18:26 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Okay. I looked around there and you appear to be right. I'll await word > > back from the upstream developer via you, though. > > I haven't got an answer from the developer yet. But if it's in > freedesktop.org... ...someone still needs to get it integrated into our XFree86 tree, or this functionality will be a while in coming. I'm willing to offer advice and assistance, but I'm a poor person to take the lead on such work as I not only don't own an i[89]xx video chipset, I don't own a working x86-compatible machine. > > Would someone on the debian-x list who actually owns i915 box like to > > undertake this? How about someone with any other Intel video chipset, at > > least see if any regressions are caused? > > There's probably no one that owns a i915 yet because the motherboards > with it are just coming out. Right, I'm aware of the recall, but I figured there might be some evaluation boards out there. > OTOH anyone with a board that uses the i810/i830 driver should be able to > use this and this driver should be better than the old one. Right, and failure to regress on those chipsets is good enough for me. Any takers? -- G. Branden Robinson | I don't care if it has a GUI, or Debian GNU/Linux | command line, or is carved in mud branden@debian.org | with a sharp spoon. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Barry Smith
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