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Legacy Mesa Drivers Receive Their Death Sentence
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Originally posted by glasen View PostThat is not true. Support for i8xx was more or less broken for nearly a year but in the last months the support is getting better again. For example Ubuntu 11.04 works way much better than Ubuntu 10.04 on this chips.
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Originally posted by DanL View PostUbuntu is using the vesa driver as the default, which is why it works better, so your argument only supports the viewpoint you quoted. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/Mavericki8xxStatus
The 855GM-chipset flawlessly works if you're using kernel-version 2.6.38+, the Intel graphics driver 2.16 (without SNA) and Mesa 7.10.3+. Ubuntu 11.04 delivers two of these three things but can update the graphics driver to version 2.16 very easily.
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Originally posted by glasen View PostThe "i810"-DRI-module was used only for the i810 and i815-chipsets. All other chipsets newer than this use the "i915" (i830 - i945) or the "i965"-DRI-module (i965 and above).
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Because of this excerpt from Michaels article:
The only one of these DRI1 hardware drivers that still might be missed by a small portion of users would be the i810 driver, which provides the Intel Mesa support for pre-i915 IGPs. This though shouldn't be a terrible shock. Intel engineers haven't given a damn about the i810/855 series for years since some of this old hardware was already fairly problematic just when it came to mode-setting and there was already a host of DDX issues when migrating to the GEM-enabled KMS-only stack.
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Right. Just to be clear: the proposal is to remove support for the original i810, which uses a separate "i810" DRI1 driver. Ian did not propose removing support for i830/845/852/855/865, which uses the "i915" DRI2 driver.
Michael is correct in that all the 8xx chipsets are basically unsupported at this point, though...we might remove 3D support for those at some point in the future (but not today!).Free Software Developer .:. Mesa and Xorg
Opinions expressed in these forum posts are my own.
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Darn... Still using savage, tdfx and r128 here... I actually find it more satisfying to resurrect old systems than to participate in FPS bragging contests.
Oh well, there are a couple of distros aimed at old HW anyway, there's hoping legacy Mesa will be in maintenance mode through those.
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