On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 02:51:51PM +0100, Fabrice LORRAIN (home) wrote: > Daniel Stone wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 11:54:28PM +0100, Fabrice LORRAIN (home) wrote: > >>On an up to date sid box > >>/usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/changelog.Debian.gz isn't very talkative > >>on intel i82915G. What current support 2D/3D can one have using the > >>current sarge/sid Xfree server for this chipset ? > >> > >>FYI, this chipset is used in professional desktop sold lately (Dell > >>Optiplex Gx280, HP/Compaq 7000 series). > > > > > >XFree86 does not support this, only X.Org. > > > > Ok. > > - On a technical point of view, is backporting the driver from X.org to > Debian X doable ? Probably. > - If it is backported, will it hit sarge ? No. > - in [1] Branden called for porter and in [2] he more or less called for > tester (regression etc...) > > I have just checked and I've access to i810E/i815/i845G/i855GM/i865G and > i915G graphics cards at work. If someone from this list is willing to do > the porting, I'm willing to do the regression tests on thoses boxes. > > I do feel this driver is important to get in, because the mobo using > this chipset have been hitting the professional market for the last > couple of month... Yeah, I agree and understand. Judging by the fact that 3 months later the work is still not done, however, I doubt you'll have much luck convincing others to do it for you now. -- Daniel Stone <daniels@debian.org>
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