Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.os.linux.hardware > #1257

Re: Intel gcg 830 on Debian Squeeze

Followups directed to: comp.os.linux.hardware

Show all headers | View raw

On Thursday 24 May 2012 14:52, Thomas Richter conveyed the following to 
comp.os.linux.hardware...

> Am 24.05.2012 14:10, schrieb Aragorn:
>>
>> You could try and install kernel 3.4, which has significant
>> improvements with regard to the Open Source "intel" driver.  But
>> chances are that you're going to have to build it from sources, as I
>> don't think any distribution has already included it in its
>> repositories in binary form.
> 
> Well, I'm willing to try that, even though it takes several hours to
> compile a kernel on this old machine (a 1GHz Pentium III). The
> question would rather be whether I would also need to recompile Xorg
> and the intel X driver - I suspect so. This would probably go beyond
> my time limit.

For the record, you would not need to recompile X.Org, and the intel 
driver is already part of the kernel - you can opt to compile the driver 
as a module or directly into the kernel.  

That's what the whole modesetting thing is about.  With "intel", 
"radeon" and "nouveau", the console and X11 drivers are unified into a 
single driver, so you no longer need separate drivers for console and 
X11.

-- 
= Aragorn =
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)

Back to comp.os.linux.hardware | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Intel gcg 830 on Debian Squeeze Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2012-05-24 11:05 +0200
  Re: Intel gcg 830 on Debian Squeeze Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-05-24 14:10 +0200
    Re: Intel gcg 830 on Debian Squeeze Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2012-05-24 14:52 +0200
      Re: Intel gcg 830 on Debian Squeeze Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-05-24 16:45 +0200
        Re: Intel gcg 830 on Debian Squeeze Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2012-05-25 14:00 +0200
          Re: Intel gcg 830 on Debian Squeeze Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2012-05-25 16:15 +0200
      Re: Intel gcg 830 on Debian Squeeze buck <buck@private.mil> - 2012-05-24 18:30 +0000
        Re: Intel gcg 830 on Debian Squeeze Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2012-06-10 18:14 +0200

csiph-web