On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 20:00 -0500, Celejar wrote:
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:22:32 +0100
Martin Steigerwald <Martin(a)lichtvoll.de> wrote:
Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2012 schrieb Celejar:
Curt Howland <Howland(a)Priss.com> wrote:
...
It is my understanding that the Intel-based
graphics cards work
perfectly well with the standard Linux drivers, if you want to stay
purely open-source.
That's what everyone says, but it's not as true as it might be. Squeeze
is shipping X stuff / drivers that cause GPU crashes on my (2007 era)
Thinkpad T61 with Intel GM965 graphics:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44478
Did you every try with backported X stuff and drivers if available? Or
Wheezy?
Yes - I updated my X stuff from backports, and I haven't seen the
problem since.
Squeeze stuff is rather old by now.
Fair enough - I'm just saying that perhaps we shouldn't go around
saying that linux support for Intel is perfect, when Debian stable is
shipping badly broken software for mature and not obsolete hardware.
Celejar
To funny, I didn't read all Debian digest, but marked them as "To Do",
while we had a discussion on Linux audio users list about the dropped nv
driver. We, the Linux community seemingly are trapped into a graphics
issue. I like to cross post this and I won't add any comment.
Anyway, please take a look at
http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2012-February/date.h… , thread
"Linux 3.2.0-rt Kernels on Debian Repos!".
I can't resist: ":D" ... ":p",
Ralf