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Hi all,

I've just uploaded xf86-video-i810-2.2.1_pre20080123 as upstream wants distros to do more testing for "old" chipsets. So please, unmask this ebuild and let upstream know how it works/breaks on your hardware.

If you have any bugs, please report them directly to FreeDesktop's bugzilla and add "remi [at] gentoo [dot] org" as a CC on the bug report. That way, I'll know when the patch is committed and I can push another snapshot.

Thanks

Edit: I've changed to the Gentoo package name as to not confuse Nightmorph I promise I'll do the pkgmove as soon as possible.

Hi all,

This going to be like a Public Service Announcement for x11-drivers/xf86-video-i810.

• Both Doug (Cardoe) and Josh (nightmorph) have asked me to do a pkgmove to xf86-video-intel to better match upstream's naming. It's been something I would have liked to see, even before Donnie (dberkholz) gave me the ownership of the driver. For now, my plan is to do the pkgmove when Intel releases a new version of the driver that can be safely unmasked.

• On the issue of masked drivers, one of Intel's engineers - Gordon Jim - recently asked for better community cooperation. His plan is to organize testing for older graphic chipsets which they can't (or no longer want to) test.

  So this is a big shout out to all of us who have felt disenchanted by Intel's latest drivers. So please, click on the above link to let him know what device you have, and that you're willing to help. If those tests require patches, I'll try my best to put those patches in portage (p.masked of course) for everyone to easily test and report back failures.

That's it for now, hopefully more news about Gnome in the next couple of days.