[Intel-gfx] Debian 6 (Squeeze) support for Sandy Bridge

[See, Anthony Chaur Yih]

Paul,
Thanks, I had removed the HTML content. Yes. this is Debian 6 Squeeze.
Did I need to upgrade X window version too through Debian backports?

Thanks
Anthony

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Menzel [mailto:paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 3:07 PM
To: See, Anthony Chaur Yih
Cc: intel-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] Debian 6 (Squeeze) support for Sandy Bridge

Dear Anthony,


please send just plain text messages to lists and no HTML messages [1].


Am Dienstag, den 12.06.2012, 03:48 +0000 schrieb See, Anthony Chaur Yih:

> From the 2010Q4 released package which is the earliest package that 
> support Sandy Bridge platform, the OS requirement look is much more 
> newer than Debian 6. Is there any way to enable Sandy Bridge with 3D 
> acceleration on Debin 6?

This is Debian Squeeze right?

> Intel 2010Q4 graphics package components 2D driver: xf86-video-intel 
> 2.14.0 
> release
3D driver: mesa 
> 7.10<http://mesa3d.org/relnotes-7.10.html>
> Libdrm: libdrm-2.4.23 
> release<http://dri.freedesktop.org/libdrm/libdrm-2.4.23.tar.bz2>
> Kernel: 2.6.37 
> release<http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.37.tar.b
> z2>
> Cairo: cairo-1.10.2 
> release<http://cairographics.org/news/cairo-1.10.2/>
> Libva: libva-1.0.7 
> release<http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libva/snapshot/libva-1.0.7.tar.bz2
> >
> Xorg: X server 1.9.3
> 
> This is what debian 6 support
> ※xf86-video-intel 版本為 2.13 
> ※Mesa 的版本為 7.7.1 
> ※libdrm 的版本為 2.4.21 
> ※Linux Kernel 的版本為 2.6.32 
> ※Cairo 的版本為 1.8. 
> ※VAAPI 的版本為 1.0.1 
> ※X.org X server 版本為 1.7.7 

I guess the only way is to try the backports repository [2]. For example `xserver-xorg-video-intel` version 2.15.0-3 is available there [3].

Otherwise your only option is Debian Wheezy which is due to be released this year as far as I know.


Thanks,

Paul


[1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mailing_list_netiquette
[2] http://backports-master.debian.org/
[3] http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=xserver-xorg-video-intel&searchon=names&section=all&suite=squeeze-backports