hoary i810 dri needs udev-0.070-2 to work

[Nikolaus Neumaier]

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golfer schrieb:
> Good news that debian sid finally got dri to work with my i810
> hardware with xorg, by upgrading to udev-0.070.
> 
> Hoary has always had the same problem of dri (acceleration) failing to
> load due to failure to find /dev/dri/card0.  I've been doing a lot of
> googling and trying different xorg.conf's, all to no avail.  But, I
> didn't want to give up, because it worked on a fedora-4 install I
> tried for a while.  I also have a mostly broken debian-sid on another
> partition and noticed that when it went to xorg from xfree, the dri on
> the i810 broke.  I've been suspecting udev, since /dev/dri/card0 would
> need udev to be created, and that's the error message.  Anyway, I
> noticed a new udev on the sid updates, so installed just that package,
> and got the great result.
> 
> Now, the problem, how to backport this new udev into hoary.  I thought
> I might be able to just use the udev source and rebuild it on hoary,
> but it requires a bunch of packages with higher versions than hoary.
> 
> Anyone know how to tackle an update problem like this?
> 
> regards,
> 
wait for breezy; at least I have an i810 too and xdriinfo says
successfully: Screen 0: i915


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