Category Archives: Intel GFX Drivers

*sigh* I should have written this post a long time ago, but I didn’t. My bad… And just yesterday, Sune was rightfully complaining about the situation. Now it’s my turn to blog and to let you in on all the … Continue reading →

Just a quick post to let you all know that xf86-video-i810-2.4.2 has hit portage in ~arch. Here’s my request : please test the hell out of it !! It seems to be a good improvement over the original 2.4.0 release … Continue reading →

Hi all, Just a quick update to let you know that I’ve just put x11-drivers/xf86-video-i810-2.4.1 to Portage. Overall, I’m not very happy with this release. It’s definitely not as smooth as 2.3.2 which turned out to be very solid. So … Continue reading →

As it has been announced on several mailing lists, Intel released version 2.3.0 of their X driver. Being back from vacation and all, I’ve only just committed it to portage. Here are a few things Gentoo users might want to … Continue reading →

Folks who follow Intel drivers development have probably noticed that Intel released 2 release candidates in the past 2 weeks. .901 has been in Portage for a little while, and so far, no one has reported bugs with it. That’s … Continue reading →

Finally, a new official release of the Intel driver. A lot of work by Intel and the test community has been put into this release. I for one have been pushing people who posted bugs in Gentoo’s bugzilla to repost … Continue reading →

Hi all, I’ve just uploaded xf86-video-i810-2.2.1_pre20080123 as upstream wants distros to do more testing for “old” chipsets. So please, unmask this ebuild and let upstream know how it works/breaks on your hardware. If you have any bugs, please report them … Continue reading →

Hi all, Just a quick word that I’ll be masking xf86-video-i810-2.2.0. It’s currently in ~arch only so stable users don’t need to worry about losing their driver. Why am I masking it? Well, it’s quite simple: it sucks. Not that … Continue reading →

Hi all, This going to be like a Public Service Announcement for x11-drivers/xf86-video-i810. Both Doug (Cardoe) and Josh (nightmorph) have asked me to do a pkgmove to xf86-video-intel to better match upstream’s naming. It’s been something I would have liked … Continue reading →