-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Peter Ganzhorn wrote: > Sorry, maybe my information is already outdated. > So the in-kernel (2.6.21 or 2.6.22-rc*) DRI drivers already support the > Intel 965 chipsets with onboard Intel graphics, and the separately > available driver sources are provided for people using older kernels, so > they may compile them as modules and get support for the newer chipsets > with the older kernels?
With the new kernels the i915 driver worked so much better than the external modules ever did -- blanking out backlights all by inself, not going into screensaver during movies, all hard work and not all of it satisfactory before comes on the silver plate in-kernel and forget about the rest. nice. This here is a 82852/855GM, but 965G is claimed by this same driver. > > I really like Intels attitude towards supporting Linux, in fact I > believe you are doing a great job with your support - the whole PowerTOP > thing is an absolutely neat idea, not to mention your participation in > kernel development! > > Peter Ganzhorn I can only second that. Best, Andre > > > On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 13:57 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> (965 is not supported yet, for these devices >>> you need external driver modules [?]) >> >> 965 is supported quite well actually; we just ALSO publish the drivers >> independently so that people with older code can use them... > > _______________________________________________ > Power mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGUhVThYOgL/M0VS0RCqFRAJwJ/NrM+rzM1Ht094jXRmOSiRpeagCeNz/G WSmMmiKwsYRyOQ4AbjRzzVQ= =an4m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
