Intel video driver 2.8.1 is available; when in repository?

[Clemens Eisserer]

I too have experienced many problems with the 2.7 intel drivers,
although the version patched by redhat is far better than what intel
delivered as 2.7.
I guess the long list of self-patched issues is also the reason why
they don't want to simply switch to 2.8.

I am now running Fedora-12, but even there the latest version is
2.8.0, instead of 2.8.1.
I decided to compile 2.8.99 myself, and its almost as stable as the
last pure EXA based release - 2.4, which was for me the best version.

- Clemens

2009/9/24, Gabriel Ramirez <gabriello.ramirez at gmail.com>:
> On 09/22/2009 07:10 PM, Rob wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On August 25th a new release 2.8.1 of the intel video driver became
>> availalble:
>>
>>  http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2009-August/046978.html
>>
>> The current one (2.7.0) is suffering from too many bugs.
>> Is there any plan to make the new release available in the
>> yum reporsitory of Fedora 11?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rob.
>>
>
> Well, but maybe the majority of the computers run fine with the 2.7.0,
> so maybe thats the reason to not make a upgrade to the 2.8.1 in the
> release of Fedora 11.
>
> by example I have two computers:
>
> one have problems with the 2.7.0 version
>
> the other have none but the second one a is netbook and don't have a
> uptime longer of two days, I was shut down or restarting after one or
> two days so maybe is the reason to not trigger the freeze bugs in the
> driver,
>
> but the problems in the first computer make me to compile the 2.8.1
> version but the graphics chipset a  intel G33 hit a bug in mesa too, so
> my intel driver is compiled against mesa 7.5.1 not the 7.6 version in Fedora
>
> and my machine  don't have any freezes anymore, but I only have the
> Desktop Effects in KDE enabled I don't use any opengl apps regularly,
> but the machine have 5 or 6 days without ill effects, I reboot them
> weekly to apply stock fedora updates
>
> but if the driver works well in my machines don't mean which in all
> machines will works well too.
>
> and rebuilding the intel driver to version 2.8.1 is easy if you have the
> Development environment from Fedora 11. do you have it installed?
>
>
> Gabriel
>
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