Fedora 10, Xorg 7.4 and US15W - Poulsbo - please help - I'm stuck

[Alan Hourihane]

On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 21:35 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 21:23 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> > Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > Why is this code being handled in this half-assed way? Can't Intel,
> > > Tungsten, Dell, Ubuntu and whoever just pull together and put it in
> > > X.org and the kernel like a sane and actually-useful driver should be?
> > 
> > That would be nice - I know some people who went through similar confusion
> > a few months ago, and were told by Intel engineers that the
> > xf86-video-vermilion that Tungsten contributed to Xorg & DRI about 9 months
> > ago is actually the Poulsbo driver, though nowhere else can you find that
> > name for it.  I never followed up to see if that worked for them on their
> > hardware or not.
> 
> I think you're hitting the old "was it really that long ago?" trap :)
> 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-vermilion/
> 
> Initial commit is dated 2007/03/28 - so *a year* and nine months ago.
> I've also read that it's probably the same driver, but even so, it
> doesn't help, as it'll be an even earlier version of the code than the
> one in Moblin git, which doesn't work. Never mind the one in Ubuntu's
> repos. Which also doesn't work (on anything but one specific version of
> Ubuntu).
> 
> The 'vermilion' code hasn't been touched in any meaningful way since
> April 2007.

Just to confirm that vermilion is NOT the driver for Poulsbo (US15W).
It's a completely separate device.

Alan.