[SM-Discuss] Latest drm checkout and Intel cards

Eric Sandall eric at sandall.us
Sun Jan 25 15:59:12 EST 2009


Eric Sandall wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:20:32 +0100 (CET)
> Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik <ruskie at codemages.net> wrote:
>> OK I did some research:
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm/commit/?id=28771e06dfe45027be6618f87335c19e8e88e3f6
>>
>> Basically yes. i915 option should be removed from the drm spell and
>> the linux version used. That's all it seems. Or we could just reverse
>> apply that commit and still keep i915 support in the drm spell ;)
>>
>> Hope this helps for others as well. One suggestion provide a warning
>> in the drm spell about what drivers are fully maintained in kernel as
>> opposed to in drm.
> 
> Thanks Andraž, I'll try this tomorrow and report if it works. :)

Using the in-kernel (2.6.28.2 tested here) DRM for i965 seems to be
working, I now have DRM enabled. ;)

Note that the menu in the kernel will be misleading as it only mentions
some of the i8x series. Once you open that, it has a submenu for i830
and i965.

-sandalle

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