i810-modesetting available on Debian

[Samuel Thibault]

Drew Parsons, le Fri 27 Oct 2006 09:48:29 +1000, a écrit :
> On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 18:40 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Keith Packard, le Thu 26 Oct 2006 08:08:18 -0700, a écrit :
> > > On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 22:00 +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Eric, would you care for a snapshot of the modesetting branch to appear
> > > > in debian/etch?
> > > 
> > > the modesetting branch really isn't ready for a stable release at this
> > > point, but having it in unstable would be really useful for many people.
> > > As noted by Barry Scott, it can cause problems on many machines because
> > > it hasn't seen widespread testing yet, and the level of development is
> > > making that difficult.
> > 
> > But isn't the experimental distribution intended for this?
> 
> Not really.  experimental is more for when you have a new, dodgy version
> of an existing package and you don't want it interfering with that
> normal version.
> 
> The new i810-modesetting package is separate from the existing i810 one,
> so that does't apply.

Ah, ok, then it is fine.

Samuel