On Tuesday 05 June 2007 1:19:33 pm Chris Pemberton wrote:
Just a word of caution for those of you upgrading this port:
Version 2.0.0 of the Intel driver, among other things, fixes a problem with video bios screen resolutions, but,in my case on a laptop, makes full screen 3D crash the machine. I have to revert back to the i810 driver that Crux 2.3 shipped with to get things working again. In addition, upgrading this port gives you two video drivers: the "i810" driver you'd expect and a new driver called "intel". They are in fact the exact same driver and both cause loss of full screen 3D (at least for me). They still include a "i810" driver so people don't have to update their xorg.conf. I don't know how the new driver behaves on a desktop machine with a CRT attached; I hope better!
I have a laptop with a intel 910 or 915 chipset (not sure), and I've been using the i810 driver since xorg 6.9. I never use 3D, but I use the TV-out all the time. The TV-out was very unstable with the previous version, and I used to have crashes all the time. Since I upgraded, it works flawlessly. Something very strange though is that I used to have a two desktop layout, and now I only have one (in clone mode), yet I never changed my xorg.conf, so I'll have to investigate this. Note that the new version also fixes a bug that used to generate interrupts that weren't used (in 2D mode), so now your battery is likely to last longer. Check this link: http://www.linuxpowertop.org/known.php Conclusion: If you have a laptop and care about battery and TV-out, but not 3D: use the new driver. If you have a desktop or don't care about battery or TV-out but you use 3D: stick to the old one. Regards, Alan