i915 DRI broken after upgrade to 7.0-Release

Oliver Fromme olli at lurza.secnetix.de
Thu Mar 6 18:22:08 UTC 2008


Replying to myself ...

Oliver Fromme wrote:
 > Tom Evans wrote:
 > > i810 driver is version 1.6.? 
 > > The next version of the driver is version 2.0, when it was renamed to
 > > intel. The latest 'intel' driver is the latest update of the i810
 > > driver.
 > 
 > OK, so that means the the "i810" driver is obsolete, right?
 > So I deleted the i810 driver and re-installed the intel one.

It turned out that the "intel" driver has several bugs.
The brightness icon doesn't work correctly, and I got a
crash/freeze when I attempted to shutdown the laptop.

So I went back to the "i810" driver.  At least it doesn't
crash the machine.

Best regards
   Oliver

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