test result matrix for xf86-video-intel-1.9.94

Eric Anholt eric at anholt.net
Tue Apr 10 10:09:16 PDT 2007


Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> Łukasz Jernaś wrote:
>> Dnia piątek, 6 kwietnia 2007, Keith Packard napisał:
>>> On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 12:02 +0200, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
>> [...]
>>>> Thanks. BTW, does this mean, that it is not recommended to use the new
>>>> driver for older Intel chips like i865, i855, i845, i830, i815 and
>>>> i810? I think that at least for 855 (laptop chip) the new driver is
>>>> very interesting.
>>> We've tried to make it work on everything, but there are a few known
>>> issues, especially with these older chips. In particular, LVDS support
>>> on i830 is broken, and DVO support (i830-i865) is not very complete.
>>
>> I hope DVO support will be added/completed somewhere in the future for 
>> the i830-i865 series. Especially I'm willing to test 852/855GM with 
>> the ch7xxx chip...
> 
> I would like to second this. I'd like to use TV-out on my Thinkpad...

Yeah, it's somewhere on our massively long todo list, but nowhere near 
the top.  On the other hand, the specs for every DVO chip I've 
encountered so far have been public, so anybody could work on it.



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