> After watching the old i810(4) driver work fine for me, and seeing > all the bug reports on the new intel(4) driver, I've got this bad > feeling that nobody cared to test it on the older chipsets... i.e. they > are not getting paid to care about "legacy" support. > > Would this be a correct assessment?
Yes. A man cannot have two masters. In this case, some people are collecting pay cheques from Intel, so no wonder there is a problem. A substantial problem.
