Re: New computer planned
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:22:32 +0100
Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2012 schrieb Celejar:
> > Curt Howland <Howland@Priss.com> wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > It is my understanding that the Intel-based graphics cards work
> > > perfectly well with the standard Linux drivers, if you want to stay
> > > purely open-source.
> >
> > That's what everyone says, but it's not as true as it might be. Squeeze
> > is shipping X stuff / drivers that cause GPU crashes on my (2007 era)
> > Thinkpad T61 with Intel GM965 graphics:
> >
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44478
>
> Did you every try with backported X stuff and drivers if available? Or
> Wheezy?
Yes - I updated my X stuff from backports, and I haven't seen the
problem since.
> Squeeze stuff is rather old by now.
Fair enough - I'm just saying that perhaps we shouldn't go around
saying that linux support for Intel is perfect, when Debian stable is
shipping badly broken software for mature and not obsolete hardware.
Celejar
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