915resolution enhancement (by SUSE)

[Jeremy Katz]

On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 18:27 -0600, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 20:41 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > FYI, 915resolution is obsolete, users should be using the "intel" driver with 
> > native modesetting these days, and the old "i180" driver will be gone
> > entirely 
> > in Fedora 9.
> 
> Does that mean the intel driver works on 830M now? Because last I tried,
> the version in F8 didn't. Do I need to be testing rawhide on my laptop
> so I'm not SOL on release?

It'd definitely be worth at least trying the live CDs and if it doesn't
work, file bugs, etc.  While someone else might try, there's no
substitute for trying on your own hardware :-)  And the live images make
it pretty simple even if you don't want to run rawhide all the time.

Jeremy