On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:31:46AM +0100, Owain Ainsworth wrote: > I've been sitting on various stages of this update for far too long, > about time i sent it out. > > This updates the rendering code in the in-tree intel driver to much more > recent versions of the upstream intel driver, while retaining user > modesetting code (backporting work by me as well as a few openbsd > specific changes). This fixes many bugs and provides a large speed > improvement (especially text rendering) on 965 and above chipsets. > > A few bugfixes from kettenis@ are also present fixing some nagging > issues. > > This is a prerequisite for support for sandybridge chipsets so it would > be good to get it into the tree soon. Testing would be much appreciated. > Instructions follow: > > Download the tarball at http://xenocara.org/src/intel_update.tgz > > move /usr/xenocara/driver/xf86-video-intel out of the way and untar the > tgz from xenocara/drivers > > cd xf86-video-intel > make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper obj > make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper build > > Please let me know if you find any issues, otherwise reports of which > hardware this was testing on to me privately please. > > Cheers, > > -0- > -- > I was playing poker the other night ... with Tarot cards. I got a full > house and four people died. > -- Steven Wright
The driver on the web has been updated to not have the sandybridge pciids set to match. -0- -- Q: How many Martians does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: One and a half.
