On 06/14/2009 03:20 PM, Geir Ove Myhr wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I just looked at the information page about Karmic alpha-2 > (http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/karmic/alpha2) and it has a paragraph > about the UXA in the -intel driver which I find confusing: > > <quote> > New Intel video driver architecture available for testing > > In later Karmic milestones the Intel video driver will most probably > switch from the current "EXA" acceleration method to the new "UXA". > This will solve major performance problems of Ubuntu 9.04, but is > still not as stable as EXA, which is why it is not yet enabled by > default. We invite you to help testing UXA, please see the > instructions and feedback page. > </quote> > > This sounds like EXA is still the default in Karmic alpha-2, and that > UXA needs to be enabled according to the UXA testing page > (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/UxaTesting). But the intel driver version > in Karmic alpha-2 is 2:2.7.99.1+git20090602.ec2fde7c-0ubuntu2 [1] > which has no support for EXA anymore. Right? > > [1] OT: would anybody tell me what those colons in the version numbers mean? > > AFAIK, the colons refer to the Debian epoch.
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