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Re: intel X driver for etch+1/2



Hi Julien,

On Tuesday 15 April 2008 23:19, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 15:49:28 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > (the i965 chipset is not supported by the i810 driver in etch).
>
> Hrm.  It's not that simple.  The devices supported by the new driver
> and not the old one are 965GM, 965GME, G33, Q35, Q33 and IGD_GM (pci ids
> 2A02, 2A12, 29C2, 29B2, 29D2 and 2A42).
>
> So the i965-based 965G, 965Q and 946GZ were already supported.  Kernel
> support for those had been backported to the etch kernel IIRC.
> The newer ones probably won't work without the etch+1/2 kernel, as they
> need the intel-agp kernel driver.

This sounds like we want newer xserver-xorg-video-intel in, what needs to be 
done so that you feel comfortable uploading 2.2.1 which is staged at 
http://people.debian.org/~jcristau/etchnhalf/ - testers?


regards,
	Holger

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