xf86-video-intel driver

[Steve Repo]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Jonathan Dieter <jdieter at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 03:38 +0000, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
>> I'm building a new computer and I want to get an intel motherboard with a
>> G45 chip because it has integrated graphics in it. I did a google search
>> and it seems there's a linux driver for it, xf86-video-intel. See for
>> instance
>>
>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjY1NQ
>>
>> I could not find a fedora rpm for it though. Are there any plans to
>> include it any time soon?
>
> It should come installed by default on a standard Fedora install.  The
> package that includes it is xorg-x11-drv-i810.
>


I have a couple of G45/945GC boards and Fedora 9 comes with intel 2.3.2 drivers.

G45 support was added in 2.4.0 release. Current release is 2.4.2.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjYwOQ

I'm waiting for fedora 9 to release 2.4.2 driver since it's been out
for a while and provides numerous improvements and bugfixes..

Any ideas when this is coming?

BTW, if you want to compile the driver, you need to download the
latest versions of Mesa (7.1.x) and libdrm (svn/cvs)

Steve