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

[Michel Dänzer]

On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 16:16 -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 22:22 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 
> > Are you/anyone planning on implementing said painful workaround? While I
> > appreciate the problems, I would be really gutted if I couldn't get a
> > nice 3D desktop on my laptop when connected to an external monitor for a
> > large desktop area!! Unf. my lappy has a i915 rather than an i965... :(
> 
> I don't have any personal plans to do this, but I'd like to see it
> happen at some point. Ideally, we'd create a driver-independent layer to
> manage this as the Radeon has the same limitation.

Not quite. Its 3D engines have similar limitations for coordinates but
not for the pitch, so working around it in the drivers would be
relatively easy.


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