Re: Debian 6 (Squeeze) support for Sandy Bridge

From: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
To: "See, Anthony Chaur Yih" <anthony.chaur.yih.see@intel.com>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: Debian 6 (Squeeze) support for Sandy Bridge
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:06:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1339484803.4399.7.camel@mattotaupa> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <636CAB47D84BA045BBA12BBBF998D4EF1B0A04B4@PGSMSX102.gar.corp.intel.com>

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Dear Anthony,

please send just plain text messages to lists and no HTML messages [1].

Am Dienstag, den 12.06.2012, 03:48 +0000 schrieb See, Anthony Chaur Yih:

> From the 2010Q4 released package which is the earliest package that
> support Sandy Bridge platform, the OS requirement look is much more
> newer than Debian 6. Is there any way to enable Sandy Bridge with 3D
> acceleration on Debin 6?

This is Debian Squeeze right?

> Intel 2010Q4 graphics package components
> 2D driver: xf86-video-intel 2.14.0 release<http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/driver/xf86-video-intel-2.14.0.tar.bz2>
> 3D driver: mesa 7.10<http://mesa3d.org/relnotes-7.10.html>
> Libdrm: libdrm-2.4.23 release<http://dri.freedesktop.org/libdrm/libdrm-2.4.23.tar.bz2>
> Kernel: 2.6.37 release<http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.37.tar.bz2>
> Cairo: cairo-1.10.2 release<http://cairographics.org/news/cairo-1.10.2/>
> Libva: libva-1.0.7 release<http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libva/snapshot/libva-1.0.7.tar.bz2>
> Xorg: X server 1.9.3
> 
> This is what debian 6 support
> ※xf86-video-intel 版本為 2.13 http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/xserver-xorg-video-intel
> ※Mesa 的版本為 7.7.1 http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libgl1-mesa-glx http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libgl1-mesa-dri
> ※libdrm 的版本為 2.4.21 http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libdrm-intel1
> ※Linux Kernel 的版本為 2.6.32 http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/linux-source-2.6
> ※Cairo 的版本為 1.8.10 http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libcairo2
> ※VAAPI 的版本為 1.0.1 http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libva1 http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libva-x11-1
> ※X.org X server 版本為 1.7.7 http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/xserver-xorg-core

I guess the only way is to try the backports repository [2]. For example
`xserver-xorg-video-intel` version 2.15.0-3 is available there [3].

Otherwise your only option is Debian Wheezy which is due to be released
this year as far as I know.

Thanks,

Paul

[1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mailing_list_netiquette
[2] http://backports-master.debian.org/
[3] http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=xserver-xorg-video-intel&searchon=names&section=all&suite=squeeze-backports

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