intel driver for xorg on hoary

[Matthew Garrett]

On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 11:04 +0000, sparkes wrote:

> The best performance on these cards (IMHO) comes from the framebuffer 
> device in the kernel.  In my case module i830.  You then enable 
> framebuffer support in X and install the mesa-dri libs.  You should then 
> get reasonable performance on the console framebuffer and in x.org, 
> including hardware excellerated openGL.

The only thing X will use the framebuffer for is screen setup. There's
no performance advantage in having the framebuffer enabled (and
currently it'll tend to stop suspend and resume from working desperately
well)

> plus you won't be tainting the kernel by using drivers with doubious 
> licences.

Mm? The binaries on Intel's site are just pre-compiled versions of the
drivers in the latest X.org.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org