On 11/02/2013 03:33, Ben Hutchings wrote:
I realise it's critical to you, but if it doesn't affect other users then I'm afraid it's just not that high a priority. Most i865 systems have been thrown out by now, and to be brutally honest I personally a more concerned about supporting today's hardware properly.
From what i know Intel is still caring about those old hardware and, in particular Chris Wilson, in the last year has made a lot of work around gen2 hardware: today a lot of GPU hangs are now resolved, SNA works and with xf86-video-intel 2.21.0 the even older i830/i845 are now considered stable:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/xorg/msg55085.html Cesare.