I too have experienced many problems with the 2.7 intel drivers, although the version patched by redhat is far better than what intel delivered as 2.7. I guess the long list of self-patched issues is also the reason why they don't want to simply switch to 2.8. I am now running Fedora-12, but even there the latest version is 2.8.0, instead of 2.8.1. I decided to compile 2.8.99 myself, and its almost as stable as the last pure EXA based release - 2.4, which was for me the best version. - Clemens 2009/9/24, Gabriel Ramirez <gabriello.ramirez@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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 > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
