i810-modesetting available on Debian

[Barry Scott]

Drew Parsons wrote:
> We have provided a binary build of the i810 video driver (modesetting
> branch) in Debian, taking a 20061014 snapshot and building for xserver
> 1.1 (X11R7.1).
>
> It is currently available [1] in debian/experimental for i386 only. If
> there is demand we can move it to debian/unstable instead, from where it
> will get built for all the other machine architectures supported by
> Debian.
>
> Alan, do you have strong feelings for or against including this driver
> in Debian's forthcoming stable release, etch?  We are in any case
> providing the normal i810 1.7.2 driver as well, of course.
>   
I have tested the modesetting branch and find it be far from stable when 
you start
and stop the Xserver. The worst case is locking up the machine in the 
kernel,this
requires power cycling to recover. I'm also seeing the Xserver crash 
when DRI is
used in some cases.

Barry