Testing latest Intel driver ...

Wu, Nian nian.wu at intel.com
Tue Nov 13 21:22:16 PST 2007


Daniel Kasak wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I've done some testing with the latest Intel driver ( today's git ),
> against xserver-1.4 and mesa-7.0.2. I have an i845G chip.
> 

> And my X log says it's loading the i915_dri.so driver:
> 
> (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so
> 
> But I thought that the i915 driver had been dropped in favour of the
> i915tex driver. The Legacy3D option has been removed:

Eric have replaced i915 driver with i915tex, so there is no i915tex now.

> 
> (WW) intel(0): Option "Legacy3D" is not used
> 
> Anyway, I tried moving the old i915 driver out of the way and renaming
> the i915tex driver, and this caused a kernel oops, so I moved things
> back. I can retest and get the details of the oops if you like.
> 
> Also, the man page for the driver still notes the Legacy3D option -
> this should be removed.

Yes, the Legacy3D option should be removed.

-Nian



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