Intel X.Org Update Restores 830GM/845G Acceleration

[Pallidus]

AMD drops support for old graphics cards.
Intel adds support for old graphics.

I have a couple of HP latptops with integrated graphics from ati.... not one of them was once supported by ati or AMD or whoever so 'drops' is not the correct word

[halfmanhalfamazing]

It doesn't appear to fix anything

The article doesn't specifically say if Chris Wilson actually fixed anything. From the article:

The GMCH on this pair of chipsets is notoriously incoherent, so the GPU is almost certainly going to hang at some point, though unlikely to hang the system and should automatically disable acceleration (and thence behave identically as if the acceleration was disabled from the start).

Now, this is not meant to dispariage Wilson in any way. He could be setting the stage to get some bug reports rolling in, who knows.

But as the article is written, nothing is receiving "support". A currently exiting feature was enabled, nothing more.

(BTW, I hope Wilson is prepared to issue some fixes, even though I don't have one of these chipsets. It would still be a good thing)

[halfmanhalfamazing]

Yeah, but on the proprietary Catalyst driver

Oranges and apples. They're supported in the open source driver.

[smitty3268]

Yeah, but on the proprietary Catalyst driver, they just dropped support for graphics card that was just some years old.

And Intel doesn't even support their cards through a proprietary driver for 1 year, or 1 month, or 1 day. Your point being?

[curaga]

AMD drops support for old graphics cards.
Intel adds support for old graphics.

That's very much backwards. Intel dropped all support for their whole i8xx range, and is now trying to re-support small parts of it.

[jhansonxi]

I recycled all of my 845 systems. I bought an Nvidia card for the only customer I had that used one. It wasn't worth fighting with.

[TheCycoONE]

Wow, surely seems like quality hardware.

Yeah, I had one of those for awhile. Wrong settings in the hardware so it would only display corruption unless patched on boot, opengl screensavers only showing on 1/3rd of the screen, even when dimmed a normal brightness square around the cursor. I don't recall crashes, but there were enough problems I was glad to give it up.

(This would have been 7ish years ago)

[uid313]

I think you got that backwards. AMD still supports cards older than these through the OSS drivers, and they don't say you should expect them to crash all the time either.

Yeah, but on the proprietary Catalyst driver, they just dropped support for graphics card that was just some years old.

[smitty3268]

AMD drops support for old graphics cards.
Intel adds support for old graphics.

I think you got that backwards. AMD still supports cards older than these through the OSS drivers, and they don't say you should expect them to crash all the time either.

[M1kkko]

The GMCH on this pair of chipsets is notoriously incoherent, so the GPU is almost certainly going to hang at some point, --

Wow, surely seems like quality hardware.