Bug#345914: The freedesktop.org patch for i8xx works perfectly

[David Nusinow <david_nusinow@verizon.net>]

On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 01:55:44PM -0700, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I've just applied the patch from:
> 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6750
> 
> against the latest Debian source (xserver-xorg-core) and it works
> perfectly on my i850 chipset. I strongly urge the X maintainers to add
> this patch to the official Debian package before the next release---it's
> a showstopper for people with these Intel chipsets. This particular
> patch is non-intrusive; it detects exactly those chipsets that need to
> be fixed, and nothing else.
> 
> For those who wish to test the fix (or need a fixed package to use with
> their Intel chipsets), I've built an (unofficial!) package for i386
> here:
> 
> http://eusebeia.dyndns.org/~hsteoh/debian/xserver-xorg-core_1.0.2-9_i386.deb
> 
> Hope this helps.

I'm in the process of updating the i810 driver to 1.6.1, which should
contain this fix. It'll be in experimental tomorrow. Please test it and let
me know if it works for you.

 - David Nusinow