[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-intel 1.9.91 (2.0 RC1)

[Stefan Dirsch]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 10:20:58AM -0800, Keith Packard wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 11:19 +0100, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 09:34:36PM -0800, Keith Packard wrote:
> > > This release contains native modesetting and RandR 1.2 support.
> > 
> > Sounds great!
> > 
> > > Known regressions: i830 and i855 LVDS do not work.
> > 
> > So laptops using i8130/i855 are currently not support at all. Is this
> > correct?
> 
> Right. The i830 requires one of a list of external chips; we've written
> support for a couple of them but haven't gotten anything working. Our
> last i830 box self-destructed recently and the one we ordered a few
> weeks ago hasn't arrived yet. The i855 is a bit more confusing; the
> documentation for the PLLs appears to be inaccurate so we're
> mis-programming the clocks. That should be fixed in the next RC
> candidate. 

Thanks.

Best regards,
Stefan

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