The tarball that may be found at http://xenocara.org/intel-current.tgz
contains an update to the intel 2.9.1 driver (the last one that
supported userland modesetting) with a load of backports for bugfixes
and performance improvements from drivers up to 2.11.

In order to test this, you will need INTELDRM_GEM defined in your kernel
option INTELDRM_GEM in your kernel config, or a patch to i915_drv.h in
/sys/dev/pci/drm will suffice) since this driver does not support
operation without kernel memory mamangement (it tries, but it seems
broken in many places).

build procedure assuming you have already checked out xenocara:

cd /usr/xenocara/driver
mv xf86-video-intel xf86-video-intel.cvs
tar xzf /path/to/intel-current.tgz
cd xf86-video-intel
make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper obj
make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper build

Then reboot into a GEM kernel to test. Please test this if you have
access to the hardware because soon GEM will be the default so anything
that is broken needs to be fixed soon. If you don't test and your stuff
breaks you can consider it to be your fault.

Please let myself and matthieu@ know of any testing results, positive or
negative.

Cheers,

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