xorg-x11-drv-i810

Adam Jackson ajackson at redhat.com
Mon Jun 18 14:44:49 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 19:37 +0100, Leo wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> The other day, I compiled the i810 driver from source and I can see the
> installed file "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/i810_drv.so" is a symbolic
> link.
> 
> However, in xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.0.0-4.fc7
> "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/i810_drv.so" is not a symbolic link. Do
> you think this is a bug?

No, it's not.

The upstream driver has been renamed 'intel', and it installs a symlink
for compatibility.  However, it still doesn't work perfectly on older
chips.  So the -i810 srpm builds two drivers, both the new 'intel'
driver and an older, known-stable version of the i810 driver.

- ajax




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