On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 20:00 -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:22:32 +0100 > Martin Steigerwald <Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2012 schrieb Celejar: > > > Curt Howland <Howland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > ... > > > > > > > It is my understanding that the Intel-based graphics cards work > > > > perfectly well with the standard Linux drivers, if you want to stay > > > > purely open-source. > > > > > > That's what everyone says, but it's not as true as it might be. Squeeze > > > is shipping X stuff / drivers that cause GPU crashes on my (2007 era) > > > Thinkpad T61 with Intel GM965 graphics: > > > > > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44478 > > > > Did you every try with backported X stuff and drivers if available? Or > > Wheezy? > > Yes - I updated my X stuff from backports, and I haven't seen the > problem since. > > > Squeeze stuff is rather old by now. > > Fair enough - I'm just saying that perhaps we shouldn't go around > saying that linux support for Intel is perfect, when Debian stable is > shipping badly broken software for mature and not obsolete hardware. > > Celejar To funny, I didn't read all Debian digest, but marked them as "To Do", while we had a discussion on Linux audio users list about the dropped nv driver. We, the Linux community seemingly are trapped into a graphics issue. I like to cross post this and I won't add any comment. Anyway, please take a look at http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2012-February/date.html , thread "Linux 3.2.0-rt Kernels on Debian Repos!". I can't resist: ":D" ... ":p", Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
