i810-modesetting available on Debian

[Samuel Thibault]

Keith Packard, le Thu 26 Oct 2006 08:08:18 -0700, a écrit :
> On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 22:00 +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 08:57 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Alan, do you have strong feelings for or against including this driver
> > > > in Debian's forthcoming stable release, etch?  We are in any case
> > > > providing the normal i810 1.7.2 driver as well, of course.
> > > 
> > > Eric's the maintainer of the modesetting branch, so you'd best ask him,
> > > as I'm not sure what the current state of play with it is.
> > 
> > Ah, okay. Thanks for the correction.
> > 
> > Eric, would you care for a snapshot of the modesetting branch to appear
> > in debian/etch?
> 
> the modesetting branch really isn't ready for a stable release at this
> point, but having it in unstable would be really useful for many people.
> As noted by Barry Scott, it can cause problems on many machines because
> it hasn't seen widespread testing yet, and the level of development is
> making that difficult.

But isn't the experimental distribution intended for this?

Samuel