Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2012 schrieb Celejar: > Curt Howland <howl...@priss.com> wrote: > > ... > > > It is my understanding that the Intel-based graphics cards work > > perfectly well with the standard Linux drivers, if you want to stay > > purely open-source. > > That's what everyone says, but it's not as true as it might be. Squeeze > is shipping X stuff / drivers that cause GPU crashes on my (2007 era) > Thinkpad T61 with Intel GM965 graphics: > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44478
Did you every try with backported X stuff and drivers if available? Or Wheezy? Squeeze stuff is rather old by now. Well as for what you´d buy today: The Intel drivers work quite well for Sandybridge in the meanwhile. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201202241522.32289.mar...@lichtvoll.de
