Re: [patch 0/5] Intel Poulsbo/Morrestown DRM driver and DRM core changes

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 07:05:30PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:02:54PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 06:53:38PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:27:19AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > 
> > > > But how do I get my laptop that I currently have right now up and
> > > > running properly with linux in a better-than-800x600-framebuffer mode?
> > > 
> > > You don't, because there's no working X driver.
> > 
> > Um, no, I have one right here, seems to work ok.  Richard pointed out
> > the public git tree for it.
> 
> With current X? If that's been fixed up recently then it's a definite 
> improvement, but last I checked it only built against old X servers.

It currently only builds with new X servers, which turned out to be a
problem trying to get it to work on an openSUSE 11.1 machine, which uses
an older xserver, but that's a distro issue, not an upstream issue...

thanks,

greg k-h