[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-intel 2.7.0

Robby Workman rw at rlworkman.net
Fri Apr 17 09:09:17 PDT 2009


On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:32:32 -0700
Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 20:24 -0700, John Ettedgui wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Frederik Himpe <fhimpe at telenet.be>
> > wrote:
> >         On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:29:33 -0700, Carl Worth wrote:
> >         
> >         > We are pleased to announce a major 2.7.0 release of
> >         xf86-video-intel
> >         > (after three previous 2.6.99.90x release candidates).
> 
> >         This new version is not working for me: the image is
> >         completely corrupted
> >         (except for the mouse cursor), while 2.6.99.903 was working
> >         without any
> >         problem. 
> > 
> > I have the exact same behavior here.
> > 2.6.29 with KMS enabled and a x3000.
> 
> Apparently, Jesse's last-minute fix that made it into xf86-video-intel
> 2.7.0 requires a corresponding fix in the kernel, (which as of
> yesterday was in Eric's tree but not quite into Linus' tree yet---but
> it might be there by now, I haven't checked yet.)


Is that fix queued for the -stable tree?  If so, it's easier to just
wait a bit rather than patch the intel driver...

-RW
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