xorg, Intel 915GM Driver (i810_drv.o) and dri => No screens found

Alan Hourihane alanh at fairlite.demon.co.uk
Fri Dec 9 06:53:56 PST 2005


On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 15:34 +0100, Andreas Schildbach wrote:
> Christoph Tavan wrote:
> 
> > The only way I found out was to install xorg-x11-6.8.2 (no matter whether 
> > with or without the patch) und then replace the 
> > self-compiled /usr/lib/modules/drivers/i810_drv.o with the binary driver from 
> > alan hourihane from http://www.fairlite.demon.co.uk/intel.html .
> 
> Which brings me to the question if the patches from Alan's driver will 
> make it into the official driver? I am also very dependant on Alan's 
> driver at the moment, for several Dell/Samsung X1 incompatibilities.

The one big change my driver has is the ForceBIOS code, which won't be
going into 6.9/7.0 because of the feature freeze.

Rest assured that any changes my test driver has will certainly make it
for the next release.

Alan.




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