Hi Alan, > Frankly, it harms Intel's Linux reputation that this regression in 3D > support for old chips has been allowed to develop.
Well, I also own a 855GM powered laptop, but I have to add that I understand intel's descision to not devote a lot development resources to it anymore. 3D on that hardware doesn't make a lot of sence except you need to run legacy apps that depend on it, and about running compiz - even their next-gen chip i915 doesn't run Vista's Aero composition manager. Furthermore its not different from what other GPU vendors do with legacy hardware. Take nvidia for example - their old chips don't get driver updates anymore, and the more-or-less official recommendation is to use nv instead. I have to use the reverse engineered nouveau driver on that machines (and I am really happy with it) to get at least useable 2D. And for AMD, the HD2100 powered mainboard I bought exactly one year ago doesn't receive any driver updates for windows anymore too, one year after I bought it. - Clemens _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
