915resolution enhancement (by SUSE)

Bob Arendt rda at rincon.com
Sun Feb 17 00:48:24 UTC 2008


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 FYI, 915resolution is obsolete, users should be using the "intel" driver with 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?

That would be a good idea.  I was in the same boat - intel doesn't work for me
in F8, but fortunately it *does* (for 2D) when tested with F9-alpha rawhide.
Dell Inspiron 1100, video = Intel Corp. 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset




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