Bug#257062: Please include the new intel driver
On 09/03/2005, at 6:02 AM, Branden Robinson wrote: Well, essentially, a patch would need to be prepped that resembled debian/patches/000_stolen_from_xorg_nv_driver.diff (in the Debian xfree86 source package), but updated the i810 driver directory instead. The bad news is that no more updates to xfree86 for sarge are planned. A case can of course be made for this hardware support, but at this point I'd need to involve the release management team. On balance (and not just because I have a lab full of machines with i915 chipsets to look after), I think that we really ought to try to get this into sarge. It won't be long before there are a hell of a lot of those chips out there. Even if we release Etch a year after Sarge, that's still a significant lag for a significant number of (potential) users -- and hands up who thinks we actually *will* release then... So, count me in favour, and let me know if you want any testing done (on i810 or i915). Cheers, Nick -- Nick Phillips / +64 3 479 4195 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] # these statements are my own, not those of the University of Otago -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#257062: Please include the new intel driver
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 07:34:48PM -0500, Jason Lunz wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 12:59AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Right, and failure to regress on those chipsets is good enough for me. > > > > Any takers? > > I have one of these new Dells at home running sarge/sid with an i910 > (915? 9xx anyway) chipset, and I use a Dell at work with i865. I also > have access at work to another type of dell workstation with a third > type of intel chipset, iirc. So I can test 2, maybe 3 chipsets, and am > willing to help develop as well. > > I have a middling amount of debian packaging experience and plenty of > build maintenance experience, so I think I can take this on. I'll get > started by reading HACKING.txt and getting things building this weekend > most likely. Well, essentially, a patch would need to be prepped that resembled debian/patches/000_stolen_from_xorg_nv_driver.diff (in the Debian xfree86 source package), but updated the i810 driver directory instead. The bad news is that no more updates to xfree86 for sarge are planned. A case can of course be made for this hardware support, but at this point I'd need to involve the release management team. > What's the word on this licensing issue? I'm uncertain from reading all > the emails in this bug which codebases might or might not be tainted. David Martínez Moreno appears to have addressed this issue. If you get your patches from freedesktop.org CVS, it shouldn't be a problem. -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | Ab abusu ad usum non valet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | consequentia. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#257062: Please include the new intel driver
El Viernes, 25 de Febrero de 2005 01:34, Jason Lunz escribió: > I have one of these new Dells at home running sarge/sid with an i910 > (915? 9xx anyway) chipset, and I use a Dell at work with i865. I also > have access at work to another type of dell workstation with a third > type of intel chipset, iirc. So I can test 2, maybe 3 chipsets, and am > willing to help develop as well. > > I have a middling amount of debian packaging experience and plenty of > build maintenance experience, so I think I can take this on. I'll get > started by reading HACKING.txt and getting things building this weekend > most likely. > > What's the word on this licensing issue? I'm uncertain from reading all > the emails in this bug which codebases might or might not be tainted. It should not be a problem since it is in freedesktop.org. The license (taken from intel_pixel.c) is: /** * * Copyright 2003 Tungsten Graphics, Inc., Cedar Park, Texas. * All Rights Reserved. * * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the * "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including * without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, * distribute, sub license, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to * permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to * the following conditions: * * The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the * next paragraph) shall be included in all copies or substantial portions * of the Software. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS * OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF * MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. * IN NO EVENT SHALL TUNGSTEN GRAPHICS AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR * ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, * TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE * SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. * **/ I do not see any problem. What Pedro asked for is to merge this driver with the current XFree86 Debian tree, ans test if it is possible to ship it. Thank you for helping, Ender. -- Servicios de red - Network services RedIRIS - Spanish Academic Network for Research and Development Red.es - Madrid (Spain) Tlf (+34) 91.212.76.25 pgphpjGOMMw3X.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#257062: Please include the new intel driver
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 12:59AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > ...someone still needs to get it integrated into our XFree86 tree, or this > functionality will be a while in coming. > > I'm willing to offer advice and assistance, but I'm a poor person to take > the lead on such work as I not only don't own an i[89]xx video chipset, I > don't own a working x86-compatible machine. [...] > > OTOH anyone with a board that uses the i810/i830 driver should be able to > > use this and this driver should be better than the old one. > > Right, and failure to regress on those chipsets is good enough for me. > > Any takers? I have one of these new Dells at home running sarge/sid with an i910 (915? 9xx anyway) chipset, and I use a Dell at work with i865. I also have access at work to another type of dell workstation with a third type of intel chipset, iirc. So I can test 2, maybe 3 chipsets, and am willing to help develop as well. I have a middling amount of debian packaging experience and plenty of build maintenance experience, so I think I can take this on. I'll get started by reading HACKING.txt and getting things building this weekend most likely. What's the word on this licensing issue? I'm uncertain from reading all the emails in this bug which codebases might or might not be tainted. Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#257062: Please include the new intel driver
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 07:30:16PM +0100, Pedro Côrte-Real wrote: > On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 18:26 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Okay. I looked around there and you appear to be right. I'll await word > > back from the upstream developer via you, though. > > I haven't got an answer from the developer yet. But if it's in > freedesktop.org... ...someone still needs to get it integrated into our XFree86 tree, or this functionality will be a while in coming. I'm willing to offer advice and assistance, but I'm a poor person to take the lead on such work as I not only don't own an i[89]xx video chipset, I don't own a working x86-compatible machine. > > Would someone on the debian-x list who actually owns i915 box like to > > undertake this? How about someone with any other Intel video chipset, at > > least see if any regressions are caused? > > There's probably no one that owns a i915 yet because the motherboards > with it are just coming out. Right, I'm aware of the recall, but I figured there might be some evaluation boards out there. > OTOH anyone with a board that uses the i810/i830 driver should be able to > use this and this driver should be better than the old one. Right, and failure to regress on those chipsets is good enough for me. Any takers? -- G. Branden Robinson| I don't care if it has a GUI, or Debian GNU/Linux | command line, or is carved in mud [EMAIL PROTECTED] | with a sharp spoon. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Barry Smith signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#257062: Please include the new intel driver
On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 18:26 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > tag 257062 + help > thanks > > On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:55:40AM +0100, Pedro Corte-Real wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 18:48 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 10:17:40PM +0100, Pedro Corte-Real wrote: > > > > Keith Whitwell created a new driver for the intel graphics cards from > > > > the i830 to the new i915. This driver supports more cards than the > > > > existing one and according to the developers supports using the second > > > > monitor (the external monitor on a laptop) as a different screen. Could > > > > you please include this driver in the package? > > > > > > We need to know if any part of it uses the new XFree86 1.1 license. If > > > so, > > > we cannot include it. > [...] > > I'll ask the developer, but since this is developed in the dri tree it > > should be alright. Driver is at: > > > > http://freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/mesa/Mesa/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i915/ > > > > So it's even in freedesktop.org so should be alright. > > Okay. I looked around there and you appear to be right. I'll await word > back from the upstream developer via you, though. I haven't got an answer from the developer yet. But if it's in freedesktop.org... > Would someone on the debian-x list who actually owns i915 box like to > undertake this? How about someone with any other Intel video chipset, at > least see if any regressions are caused? There's probably no one that owns a i915 yet because the motherboards with it are just coming out. OTOH anyone with a board that uses the i810/i830 driver should be able to use this and this driver should be better than the old one. Pedro. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#257062: Please include the new intel driver
tag 257062 + help thanks On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:55:40AM +0100, Pedro Corte-Real wrote: > On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 18:48 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 10:17:40PM +0100, Pedro Corte-Real wrote: > > > Keith Whitwell created a new driver for the intel graphics cards from > > > the i830 to the new i915. This driver supports more cards than the > > > existing one and according to the developers supports using the second > > > monitor (the external monitor on a laptop) as a different screen. Could > > > you please include this driver in the package? > > > > We need to know if any part of it uses the new XFree86 1.1 license. If so, > > we cannot include it. [...] > I'll ask the developer, but since this is developed in the dri tree it > should be alright. Driver is at: > > http://freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/mesa/Mesa/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i915/ > > So it's even in freedesktop.org so should be alright. Okay. I looked around there and you appear to be right. I'll await word back from the upstream developer via you, though. Would someone on the debian-x list who actually owns i915 box like to undertake this? How about someone with any other Intel video chipset, at least see if any regressions are caused? -- G. Branden Robinson|America is at that awkward stage. Debian GNU/Linux |It's too late to work within the [EMAIL PROTECTED] |system, but too early to shoot the http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |bastards. -- Claire Wolfe signature.asc Description: Digital signature
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Bug#257062: Please include the new intel driver
On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 18:48 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 10:17:40PM +0100, Pedro Corte-Real wrote: > > Package: xserver-xfree86 > > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > Keith Whitwell created a new driver for the intel graphics cards from > > the i830 to the new i915. This driver supports more cards than the > > existing one and according to the developers supports using the second > > monitor (the external monitor on a laptop) as a different screen. Could > > you please include this driver in the package? > > We need to know if any part of it uses the new XFree86 1.1 license. If so, > we cannot include it. > > Please see: > > http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/trunk/debian/local/FAQ.xhtml#xfree86license > > for more information. > I'll ask the developer, but since this is developed in the dri tree it should be alright. Driver is at: http://freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/mesa/Mesa/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i915/ So it's even in freedesktop.org so should be alright. Pedro. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#257062: Please include the new intel driver
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 10:17:40PM +0100, Pedro Corte-Real wrote: > Package: xserver-xfree86 > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 > Severity: wishlist > > Keith Whitwell created a new driver for the intel graphics cards from > the i830 to the new i915. This driver supports more cards than the > existing one and according to the developers supports using the second > monitor (the external monitor on a laptop) as a different screen. Could > you please include this driver in the package? We need to know if any part of it uses the new XFree86 1.1 license. If so, we cannot include it. Please see: http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/trunk/debian/local/FAQ.xhtml#xfree86license for more information. -- G. Branden Robinson|The best place to hide something is Debian GNU/Linux |in documentation. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-- Ethan Benson http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#257062: Please include the new intel driver
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 Severity: wishlist Keith Whitwell created a new driver for the intel graphics cards from the i830 to the new i915. This driver supports more cards than the existing one and according to the developers supports using the second monitor (the external monitor on a laptop) as a different screen. Could you please include this driver in the package? Greetings, Pedro. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
