[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-intel 2.6.99.901

[Jin, Gordon]

Daniel Gultsch wrote on Tuesday, March 10, 2009 7:06 PM:
> On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:54:05 -0700
> Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> wrote:
> 
>> Here is the first release candidate in preparation for the upcoming
>> 2.7.0 release.
> (...)
>> A complete "shortlog" of all changes since 2.6.0 is included below.
>> As we move toward the actual 2.7.0 release I'd like to have a shorter
>> bulleted list of major features and bug fixes in this release. So if
>> you are responsible for any significant changes, please send me a
>> sentence or two summarizing each one.
> 
> will the tearing issue be fixed in 2.7.0? I've read about waiting for
> vblank in the changelog but I'm not sure if this will fix it. Could
> somebody confirm this please?

If you mean tearing with xv (without composite window manager): http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19635, it's fixed in 2.6.99.902.

Gordon