On 2011-12-04 12:32-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Live CD previews of Debian and Ubuntu upgrades are especially > important right now because of the continued volatility of the X stack > especially for those with Intel hardware. My 4-year-old hardware has > Intel g33 integrated graphics which works well with the old X stack > for Debian squeeze, but I am not sure that will be the case for the > new X stack for Debian wheezy because the Intel open-source graphics > group stopped release testing g33 two years ago. They still claim > that the new X stack _should_ work with that hardware but a certain > amount of fear, uncertainty, and doubt about that has been introduced > by their lack of release testing, and you know how paranoid I am > about the completeness of release testing in any case. :-)
Hmm. I was being too tough on Intel, see http://intellinuxgraphics.org/2011Q4.html. They did drop release testing of g33 for quite a while up to and including the first quarterly release this year. Apparently there was no second quarterly release, but g33 testing has been reinstated for their last two quarterly releases this year, and the versions of the components (kernel, mesa, libdrm, libva, X server, and X intel driver) of the Intel graphics stack mentioned at the above URL have already mostly made it into Debian testing. That makes me feel a lot better about the chances that my g33 graphics will work properly with the X stack for Debian testing. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cloud Services Checklist: Pricing and Packaging Optimization This white paper is intended to serve as a reference, checklist and point of discussion for anyone considering optimizing the pricing and packaging model of a cloud services business. Read Now! http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51491232/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
