Patch: add quirks for Dell D420

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Wed May 23 07:04:23 PDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 15:55 +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> Le mercredi 23 mai 2007 à 08:45 +0100, Richard Hughes a écrit : 
> > On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 09:46 +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> > > 
> > > What do you think about option 1B : only support the newer "intel"
> > > driver but keep the offending vbestate_restore quirk in the fdi file,
> > > commented, explaining it is needed for older intel driver ? And when
> > > intel driver is propagated enough, drop the commented block.    
> > 
> > Yes, good plan. Can you russle up a patch to fix this, and then I'll
> > commit it. So official policy is only have active quirks with the latest
> > drivers, but add commented quirks for older drivers.
> 
> Attached..

Committed and pushed, thanks for sorting out the mess.

> You need to rephrase the driver question on the form, most users won't
> know what "old i810 driver" mean. Asking for driver version is probably
> best, even if it is hard to check for average user..

I've put to check for i810 in xorg.conf - or is there a better way?
Thanks.

Richard,




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