On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:27:08 -0600 Marco Peereboom <sl...@peereboom.us> wrote:
> You are not the one paying the fixers unfortunately. The only > influence you have is what Matthieu suggested. Thanks Marco. If I'm reading Mathieu and you correctly, I have to take this upstream to get it fixed, and of course, this means writing a *VERY* long and detailed bug report to make things as easy as possible for those who could/might fix it. I've tried searching for and reading existing bug reports on the intel(4) driver, and specifically the 845G chipset, but there are *TONS* of them. A lot of the existing reports are poorly written but since the buggy behavior is inconsistent, many of the existing bug reports are probably duplicates, well, at least in some sense. I just singed up for freedesktop.org this morning, and I'm collecting the needed Xorg.0.log's with full debug info, descriptions and whatnot. It's going to take quite a while experiment with it and write up all the buggy behavior variations. If I do an absolutely stellar job on the bug report, they might take the time to look at it. After watching the old i810(4) driver work fine for me, and seeing all the bug reports on the new intel(4) driver, I've got this bad feeling that nobody cared to test it on the older chipsets... i.e. they are not getting paid to care about "legacy" support. Would this be a correct assessment? -- J.C. Roberts
