future of xserver-xorg-video-(i810|intel)?

[shirish]

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> Message: 8
> Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:54:29 -0400
> From: Kyle McMartin <kyle at ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: future of xserver-xorg-video-(i810|intel)?
> To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org>
> Cc: ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <20070630195429.GB465 at fattire.cabal.ca>
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> On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 01:15:19PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 08:58:56PM +0200, Andreas Schildbach wrote:
> >
> > > As the i810 driver cannot handle odd resolutions well, when will the
> > > default be switched over to intel? Will this happen at all for Gutsy?
> >
> > There's still a small number of important regressions in -intel compared
> > to -i810. These are being fixed quite rapidly, so I'd hope we'll be able
> > to cover it for gutsy.
> >
>
> My plan is to have them both installed by parallel, and modify
> discover-data to use -intel on new installs for everything newer than
> i945. This should minimize regressions.
>
> There are still some important things missing in xf86-video-intel, for
> example, we've seen regressions in terms of hotkey device switching. :/
>
> We'll likely keep -i810 for the i8xx by default for the foreseeable
> future though.
>
> Regards,
>         Kyle M.

Hi Kyle,
         As one of the users who had used the 1.9.91 series drivers
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-i810-modesetting/+bug/90213
good, (i845 chipset) I can confirm the regressions. I have not been to
use the intel driver successfully even though X.org 7.2 is being used.
 The i810 driver has been  good however. :)
-- 
          Shirish Agarwal
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