Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-intel 2.11.901

From: Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva <tolkiendili@gmail.com>
To: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-intel 2.11.901
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 02:31:31 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimPrhilJy3pKbnxZyCWwnmQIDOgjN9hf8Zk_kRO@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871vc4na83.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org>

2010/6/18 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>:

>> I haven't tried driver 2.9 with xorg 1.8, because I supposed newer
>> xorg versions were incompatible with old drivers..
>
> I'd actually recommend using the newer X in both cases. I would hope
> that new X would work fine with an older driver, (but there might be
> some point at which the driver really is *too old* for a particular X
> server).
>
> In that case, you might need to bump the driver version up and hope that
> it still works.

When using an 2.9 driver compiled for 1.7 xorg, and 1.8 xorg, X
complains about ABI mismatch. Recompiling the driver is supposed to
fix this, but, I get the same error I got while building from git
sources. In fact I see it was already reported at gentoo bugzilla,
http://bugs.gentoo.org/317585

Well, I suppose I could just downgrade X..

Is 2.11 and beyond expected to work with Xorg 1.7? [ hmm, every time I
do this, I have to wait a while.. I'm using debian testing right now
(Xorg 1.7.5, intel driver 2.9.1) and it's working fine. ]

-- 
Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva <tolkiendili@gmail.com>