Bug#748753: xserver-xorg-video-intel: please update, jessie/sid version 2.21.15 is 9 months old
Hi Michael,
Apologies for the 2-week late reply...better late than never, right?
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Michael Stapelberg
<stapelberg@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Vincent,
>
> Vincent Cheng <vcheng@debian.org> writes:
>> Are you planning to update xserver-xorg-video-intel anytime soon? I'd
>> be glad to lend a hand if you're busy at the moment, and upload
>> 2.99.911 to sid (or experimental, if there are objections to uploading
>> it directly to sid).
> I’m unsure if we want to upload random snapshot releases to sid, which
> is why I didn’t do that. Feel free to upload it to experimental, though.
My rationale for wanting a xserver-xorg-video-intel 2.99.x release in
sid (and ultimately in the next stable release) rather than in
experimental is mostly due to Nvidia Optimus (since my primary laptop
has optimus baked in, and I happen to be bumblebee/primus'
maintainer), i.e.
- xxv-intel >= 2.99.904 ships with intel-virtual-output (see also #749925)
- there's this strange bug that affects UXA in combination with
bumblebee + primus [1]; a convenient workaround is to use SNA, which
was made the default acceleration method upstream as of >= 2.99.x
There's also the fact that Intel is promoting their 2.99.x releases in
their graphics stack bundles [2] (presumably because they consider it
stable enough). I'd much rather see a 2.99.x release in jessie rather
than the rather old package we currently have in jessie/sid today, but
it sounds like everyone else currently involved in maintaining
xxv-intel disagrees.
(Well, in the meantime, I've uploaded xxv-intel to experimental with
intel-virtual-output installed + default accel method used.)
Regards,
Vincent
[1] https://github.com/amonakov/primus/issues/126
[2] https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads/2014/2014q1-intel-graphics-stack-release
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