Bug#318993: xserver-xorg: Debian needs to get Alan Hourihane's updated I810 driver
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 01:09:20AM -0400, Keenan Pepper wrote:
> The current I810 driver /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/i810_drv.o is
> quite unstable and crashes a lot, especially when playing video. Alan
> Hourihane's driver at http://www.fairlite.demon.co.uk/intel.html is much
> better and the latest one has never crashed on my hardware. It suspect
> it will probably fix a few other bugs reported by people with Intel chips.
Specifically, it adds i945G support, fixes numerous pitch problems in
Xv, which stops the engine locking up a lot, and has a whole raft of
fixes on top of the one in Debian. It's in Xorg HEAD, and Ubuntu has
had it for a while now.
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