Bug#257062: Please include the new intel driver
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 12:59AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> ...someone still needs to get it integrated into our XFree86 tree, or this
> functionality will be a while in coming.
>
> I'm willing to offer advice and assistance, but I'm a poor person to take
> the lead on such work as I not only don't own an i[89]xx video chipset, I
> don't own a working x86-compatible machine.
[...]
> > OTOH anyone with a board that uses the i810/i830 driver should be able to
> > use this and this driver should be better than the old one.
>
> Right, and failure to regress on those chipsets is good enough for me.
>
> Any takers?
I have one of these new Dells at home running sarge/sid with an i910
(915? 9xx anyway) chipset, and I use a Dell at work with i865. I also
have access at work to another type of dell workstation with a third
type of intel chipset, iirc. So I can test 2, maybe 3 chipsets, and am
willing to help develop as well.
I have a middling amount of debian packaging experience and plenty of
build maintenance experience, so I think I can take this on. I'll get
started by reading HACKING.txt and getting things building this weekend
most likely.
What's the word on this licensing issue? I'm uncertain from reading all
the emails in this bug which codebases might or might not be tainted.
Jason
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