On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 09:51:17 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Julien Cristau] > > Which ones would that be? i810 is so old I'd be surprised if there > > were still many of those in the field (mine died a couple years > > back), and all newer chipsets get native modesetting since lenny. > > My Thinkpad X41 and my Dell Latitude D505 both seemed to need it to > get external output when I tested it a while back. Got the tip to use
Unless you tested with etch I don't think that's true, and using it on squeeze is a bad idea as it will mess with hw registers behind the kernel driver's back. > it from Werner, and added it to discover-data when it proved to work. > No idea if it is still useful, so if you say it isn't, we can make the > entry version dependent. I guess not all of us have very new > hardware. :) > I'm not saying very new hardware, I'm saying anything from the last 10 years shouldn't need i810switch. Cheers, Julien
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