Re: intel X driver for etch+1/2
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 14:24:51 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> 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?
>
Success reports from people with the new hardware would be nice. I
guess I'll upload next week anyway if I don't get any bad reports.
Cheers,
Julien
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