Philippe, Excellent words!! Although I confirmed with both Intel and Dell before I bought the Inspiron 2600, and they stated the bug has been fixed, I bought it and had the issues everyone was having. Dell conveniently forgot to mention that the bug may not work on all of their laptops, and unfortuneately, I got one of those. You mentioned RH will fix this in the next release. When will it be out / What will it be called? Issues like this make it very hard to spread the word on Linux. I want to learn it so bad..yet have a hard time finding a machine that it will run / install on, without knowing C. Rye ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rigault, Philippe" <PRigault@illumina.com> To: <xfree86-list@redhat.com> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 7:36 PM Subject: Re:Re: The i830 saga > >This workaround for the BIOS bug will be officially part of the > >next Red Hat Linux release. There are no plans to backport the > >new driver to Red Hat Linux 8.0 as that would entail a rather > >large amount of development engineering for what is not even an > >XFree86 bug, but is a hardware bug. > > So the conclusion is: > > 1. It is a serious bug (laptops with i830 are plain unusable with X for > regular users). > 2. It can be fixed in software (it really is a hardware bug, actually > BIOS, but it does not matter since Dell has apparently no intention to > fix it and Windows drivers already workaround this in software). > 3. RedHat will fix the bug for the next version of RedHat Linux (good > news here) > 4. RedHat will not fix the bug for current (and officially supported) RH > releases. > > I respect the fact that it is up to RedHat to decide whether this bug > warrants by itself an XFree86 update for 7.3 and 8.0, but I strongly > support that updated XFree86 packages should be released to address this > issue (maybe wait until XFree86 4.3.0 is out), given that Dell hardware > is de facto common hardware and regular RedHat users expect some support > for it. > It may also send a very bad message by appearing as a veiled 'forced > upgrade' policy. > > I have pesonally no problem with upgrading and testing the latest stuff > when time allows, and always had very good experiences of RedHat on Dell > laptops so far. But I have been frustrated all along by this i830 fiasco > (on a Dell inspiron 2600 with RH 8.0) and had to resort to a commercial > (xig) X server, since Mike's RPMs did not work in my case. > > Best regards, > > -- > Philippe Rigault > > > > _______________________________________________ > xfree86-list mailing list > xfree86-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list > IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
