[Intel-gfx] attempting to build with Ubuntu 8.04

[don munro]

Hi Chris,
Thanks for the feedback. With other advise, I had come to that conclusion
too.

I'm now trying to port forward the driver for the troublesome expansion
card, to a Ubuntu install with the oldest working Intel Linux Graphics
driver I can find.
Hoping to find a compromise that works!
Best regards,
Don.


On 15 April 2013 14:42, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 02:58:44PM +0100, don munro wrote:
> > Hi,
> > For various reasons, I'm trying to build an Intel driver to run on a QM67
> > system but with Ubuntu 8.04.4
> >
> > Kernel 2.6.24-32-generic
> > Intel 2010Q4
> >
> > Basically, I've got other hardware depending on Ubuntu 8.04 as the
> manufacturer
> > stopped supporting Linux at that point.
> >
> > The question is am I wasting my time even trying this?
>
> A late response, but I would say that the task of getting a driver for
> Sandybridge (kernel, DDX, mesa and libva) running on 2.6.24 is nigh on
> impossible. For starters you would need to backport drm from 3.2 or later
> which would be very intrusive and complicated for 2.6.24.
>
> Realistically you are struck with VESA and no OpenGL acceleration.
> Hope that helps,
> -Chris
>
> --
> Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
>



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