Bug#406111: Pretty please, backport!

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

Quoting Francesco Poli <frx@firenze.linux.it>:

> Hi!
>
> I also have a motherboard with Intel 965G integrated graphics (it's an
> Asus P5B-VM, for the record) and I think that getting this chipset work
> out of the box with Debian etch would be *very* important.
>
> I read that some people (among which Joerg Becker[1]) have successfully
> backported the intel-agp module from more recent Linux kernel versions.
>
> [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2007/01/msg00798.html
>
> Could this approach be adopted for the official etch 2.6.18 Linux
> kernel?
> Pretty please?!?

the etch kernel is frozen.
nevertheless cherrypicking the important patch may qualify for
a stable release update.

best regards
maks

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