On 09/22/2009 07:10 PM, Rob wrote: > > Hi, > > On August 25th a new release 2.8.1 of the intel video driver became availalble: > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2009-August/046978.html > > The current one (2.7.0) is suffering from too many bugs. > Is there any plan to make the new release available in the > yum reporsitory of Fedora 11? > > Thanks, > Rob. > Well, but maybe the majority of the computers run fine with the 2.7.0, so maybe thats the reason to not make a upgrade to the 2.8.1 in the release of Fedora 11. by example I have two computers: one have problems with the 2.7.0 version the other have none but the second one a is netbook and don't have a uptime longer of two days, I was shut down or restarting after one or two days so maybe is the reason to not trigger the freeze bugs in the driver, but the problems in the first computer make me to compile the 2.8.1 version but the graphics chipset a intel G33 hit a bug in mesa too, so my intel driver is compiled against mesa 7.5.1 not the 7.6 version in Fedora and my machine don't have any freezes anymore, but I only have the Desktop Effects in KDE enabled I don't use any opengl apps regularly, but the machine have 5 or 6 days without ill effects, I reboot them weekly to apply stock fedora updates but if the driver works well in my machines don't mean which in all machines will works well too. and rebuilding the intel driver to version 2.8.1 is easy if you have the Development environment from Fedora 11. do you have it installed? Gabriel -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
