Bug#385393: xserver-xorg-video-i810: Please include modesetting branch
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 04:14:01PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 07:39:30PM -0400, John Gruenenfelder wrote:
>>
>> 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
Okay, I can see the rational behind that.
If you do make any unofficial packages, please let me know. I'd be very eager
to test them.
Thanks for the quick response.
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