Hi all,<\/p>\n
Just a quick update to let you know that I’ve just put x11-drivers\/xf86-video-i810-2.4.1 to Portage.<\/p>\n
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<\/strong> solid. So please test it out with a recent xorg-server (read, 1.4.2) and let me know in bugzilla if anything breaks.<\/p>\n Again, be prepared to continue the bug hunt in FreeDesktop’s bugzilla<\/a> as my Intel Powers ™ are very limited. It just so happens that half a dozen Intel developers also roam there, so all in all, it’s a good place to file bugs. Just add “remi at gentoo dot org” as a CC on those bugs so I can keep track of the issues.<\/p>\n Thanks<\/p>\n Update<\/em> :<\/p>\n Josh<\/a> asked me a couple questions and the answers might interest all those of you who have Intel chips but don’t follow X development closely. So here goes :<\/p>\n My Thinkpad R61i has an Intel X3100 chip, so I’ll be sure to test out the new drivers. I am sorta scared by your blog post, but, well, as long as I quickpkg<\/strong> the relevant packages before upgrading, I should be okay, right? \ud83d\ude09<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Yes, let’s get this straight, the driver won’t eat your laptop and won’t kill kittens either. A lot of the core features do work, but there are some instabilities and some quirky behaviors, and those are the issues I’m worried about.<\/p>\n I normally run the hardmasked\/~arch X and Intel packages, with all their quirks, on that machine, so 2.4 shouldn’t all that different.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Yep, 2.4.1-r1 is in ~arch, so ~ users will probably already have it installed by now.<\/p>\n I wasn’t aware of the git overlay. Are there any fixes in upstream’s git that just didn’t make it into 2.4.1? If so, I may have to make the move to the overlay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Donnie’s X11 overlay<\/a> has live ebuilds for the “master” branch of all X packages. Beware that intel\/master is very<\/strong> different from intel\/xf86-video-intel-2.4-branch. I’m currently backporting patches from the latter into Portage as they will end up in the next release anyway. So there’s no need to create a live git ebuild for this particular branch.<\/p>\n As for the current git master, as you may have read on Phoronix and Planet FreeDesktop, the driver is going through major<\/strong> changes. Definitely not for the faint of heart.<\/p>\n Also, when’s the namechange to xf86-video-intel?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I plan to tackle this tiny issue when Donnie decides to put Xorg 7.4 (aka xorg-server-1.5) into portage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 please test it out with a recent xorg-server (read, 1.4.2) and let me know in … Continue reading Intel driver update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/remi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/remi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/remi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/remi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/remi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/remi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/remi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/remi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/remi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/remi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}