Intel Quick Start Kits

[Eric Anholt]

On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 13:13 -0400, Andrew Barr wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was just wondering if there was anything special about the graphics
> drivers distributed with those Intel Quick Start kits that are linked to
> off of the intellinuxgraphics.org site (the CPSG drivers). That is,
> beyond testing/quality control/etc. I had a look at the ISO for Debian
> 3.1 and the only thing that looked "special" to me, beyond the
> installer, documentation, and so forth were a few .so files that looked
> like server extensions: intel_acpi.so and intel_randr.so.
> 
> Are these just validated snapshots like the Linux downloads that have
> been available at intel.com for some time, just packaged for system
> builders or similarly interested parties?

The drivers in the kit are backported from the upstream sources to older
X.  If your distribution already packages the upstream sources, I would
recommend continuing to use those drivers instead.

-- 
Eric Anholt                             anholt at FreeBSD.org
eric at anholt.net                         eric.anholt at intel.com
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