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Bug#533450: stepping back



On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 04:23:31PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> unfortunatly the psb xorg driver doesnt work with my poulsbo chipset, I always 
> get the errors as described in 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=533450#115 - I've tried the 
> mandrake 2010 live-cd yesterday and exactly the same problem. 

You appear to have the same chipset as I do:
mattia@ludwig:~/devel> lspci -n -s 00:02.0
00:02.0 0300: 8086:8108 (rev 06)

did you actually try all the tricks I described previously?
Specifically I noticed that the mem= command line parameter and loading
psb.ko late enough in the boot sequence help a lot.

Oh wait, you have rev 07... not sure what the difference is.

> The only way I could get the graphic card to work with performance is with the 
> even less free iegd driver from intel, so this is what I will be using in the 

This is quite interesting actually. If nothing else because *maybe* this
other driver works better than psb on my laptop.
Also, I read on the IEGD website that there should be a kernel patch
somewhere. I'm now digging around the intel website to see if I can find
anything useful -- the only "driver" I was able to download so far
contains some sort of exe (archive?).

> near future, while I'm waiting for a newer (and working for me) version of 
> the psb driver. 
> 
> And until this is there, I dont have interest in packaging psb, sorry. 
> 
> If someone comes up with suitable packages for Debian sid, I'd be willing to 
> sponsor them, though.

No worries, I could upload them myself if I was any convinced it was a
good idea. The 3D driver has no chance of working with any current
libdrm implementation and even currently video playback is so bad that
it's just useless.

Anyway, I reworked the packages even more and now at least the packaging
situation is less sad:
- libdrm-psb doesn't need to conflict or replace libdrm anymore, the psb
  xorg driver picks it up, much like the intel driver does.
- almost lintian clean, no big errors except for the kernel driver but
  those seem false positives.
- all packges are 3.0 (quilt)... just for fun.
On the negative side the kernel module packaging is still crappy but to
be honest I can't be bothered making it any better for now.

I have all my stuff here with a little explanation in case you want to
give it another go: http://www.kamineko.org/debian-psb/

Thanks
-- 
mattia
:wq!

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