On Nov 14, 2007 7:32 PM, Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Chris Weyl wrote:
> > On Nov 14, 2007 11:51 AM, Adam Jackson <ajackson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 12:11 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> >>> Chris Weyl (cweyl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said:
> >>>>> Err, I'm presuming that this was unintentional? :)
> >>>> Yes, thanks :)
> >>> If I may ask, what's the point of this in the devel
> >>> branch, where we don't actually use the BIOS?
> >> Seriously. F9 won't have the i810 driver anymore. 915resolution can
> >> die now.
> >
> > I suspect there will be few people happier than I when that finally
> > happens. However, this was also supposed to happen for FC-6, so I
> > trust you won't object too much when want to see it first :)
>
> The driver was there in FC6 and F7, just not enabled by default except
> for known working chips. With F8, most Intel hardware should be
> defaulted to the modesetting driver. And as of rawhide today, the i810
> driver is gone, gone, gone :)
>
> * Tue Nov 13 2007 Adam Jackson <ajax@xxxxxxxxxx> 2.1.99-1
> - xf86-video-intel 2.1.99.
> - Drop the i810 driver. Time to move on.
> - Require xserver 1.4.99.1
I'm sold! What's the latest (heh) procedure for taking a package out
back and shooting it?
-Chris
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