Bug#385393: xserver-xorg-video-i810: Please include modesetting branch
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 07:39:30PM -0400, John Gruenenfelder wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-i810
> Version: 2:1.6.5-2
> Severity: wishlist
>
>
> The i810 driver currently has both a main and a "modesetting" branch.
> This other branch often works better, on some newer models, than the
> regular i810 driver.
>
> Would it be possible to include both of them in the i810 package? The
> Fedora rawhide package for the i810 driver includes both, naming the
> modesetting driver "intel" to avoid any conflicts.
>
> It would help those of us with hardware not fully supported by the
> current i810 driver.
So I've actually spoken with one of the Fedora X maintainers about this
driver. The driver isn't really cooked yet, which is why it's still on a
development branch in upstream git. I've thought about doing unofficial
packages for it, and probably will at some point soon (I'd like to play
with it myself, being a newly minted intel chip owner), but as for shipping
it with Etch, I don't think it's ready currently. If it lands upstream in
time, you can bet I'll make the effort to release it though.
- David Nusinow
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