Nvidia the biggest problem.

[Andre Müller]

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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 Sorry, maybe my information is already outdated.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...
> 
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