I know it's quite soon to post this already, as it's just released today, but many people have issues with the intel drivers stability at the moment, so many will consider it quite urgent (at least I do :)). For the last past weeks it hasn't been really stable, using 2 monitors made me have no issues, but after some recent gnome updates bugs seem to be triggered much more often (as in I usually can't work an hour w/o lockup) and downgrading to 2.10 doesn't help and 2.9 doesn't compile any more. It says some things are fixed: major improvements xf86-video-intel 2.12.0: * Many performance improvements targeting i915/i945/G33/Pineview graphics chipset. * Improved Xvmc and overlay, adding GEM support. * Fixes for page-flipping and other DRI2-handling bugs. mesa 7.8.2: * Various i965 and i915 driver fixes. kernel 2.6.34: * Unstable framebuffer compression is now disabled on 915GM and 945GM. * Ironlake interrupt wedging fixed. * Tiling bugs on 915-945 fixed. * Removed unreliable ACPI LID state-based laptop display setup. * Memory self-refresh mode implemented on 915-945 for power saving. Intel hardware-accelerated H.264 decoding for Intel® HD Graphics. (detail, requiring 2.6.35-ish kernel) known issues TODO: 3d window becomes black after VT switching or suspend/resume on some machines: bug#27035. Extended desktop messed with compiz on i915: bug#28518. Some eDP panels doesn't work on some Calpella/Arrandale laptops: bug#28224. Backlight property nonexistant for Macbook in KMS: bug#25901. No support for interlaced modes: bug#11220. Beyond TODO list: XvMC is disabled on 915G/GM for KMS: bug#23012. CH7xxxx DVO TV-out not supported (Chrontel specs are open so anyone could write the driver): bug#12882. Textured video is supported on platform post i915, not available on i8xx. Reproducible: Always
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I just copied xf86-video-intel-2.11.0 to 2.12.0 and it merges (couldn't find any filepaths in there, probably autogenerated?). Do have issues with multiple monitors now. PS, I'd like to see fictional things kill things :)
FYI, for those that want to test already (but as stated, I have issues with more than 1 monitor, then again, not sure if anything needs to be changed in the ebuild) you can run the following (as root): cd /usr/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel; cp xf86-video-intel-2.11.0.ebuild xf86-video-intel-2.12.0.ebuild; ebuild /usr/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel/xf86-video-intel-2.12.0.ebuild manifest; emerge -1 xf86-video-intel This should update it. One warning, I'm not sure what will happen once the official ebuild gets released, that ebuild will overwrite this one, but portage will probably not notice it's an update. So at that time you might have to rebuild it again (just run emerge -1 xf86-video-intel). I don't foresee any other issues with this, but as stated, I'm no ebuild dev and I might just be horribly wrong :). Thus no warranties, use at your own risk and if it fries your kittens or makes your laptop explode it's not my fault :). So far I haven't had any lock-ups any more though, which for me is better than being able to use multiple monitors but get frequent freezes/lockups (sometimes I could switch to console, other times not). I'm on a HP/Compaq nc6320 laptop. 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 01) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 01) 02:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller 02:06.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller 02:06.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD) 02:06.3 SD Host controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller 02:06.4 Communication controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 GemCore based SmartCard controller 02:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03) 08:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02) I'll gladly help where I can with testing etc. Creating ebuilds is beyond my skill set.
x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.12.0 is in portage now.
