Widely used Intel 8xx chips are a big challenge right now for kernel and Xorg developers. The standard kernel and xorg drivers produce lots of instability. Ubuntu and other linux distros have patched drivers and kernels for users to try. Here is an example user having problems with the current stable setup: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327831 There are also lots of users in the forums having troubles since the kernel and xorg just dont play well with i845, i855 and other 8xx chips. Can Gentoo release some official documentation and a supported a patched kernel and set of other possible work arounds for the issues users face like the Ubuntu link above?
(In reply to comment #0) > Can Gentoo release some official documentation and a supported a patched kernel > and set of other possible work arounds for the issues users face like the > Ubuntu link above? Here's the only official "documentation" I can provide : don't use 8xx chips if you can. Upstream is working hard to fix the issue (I personally own an 855 laptop, I know it can be hell sometimes), including rewriting the entire lower half of the kernel Intel driver. It really saddens me to say this, but we can't offer support for 8xx chips beyond what upstream supports, we just don't have the resources for that. Please keep filing bugs upstream, that's the only way out of this mess. If you do file bugs upstream, please add "remi@gentoo.org" as a CC on the bug report so I can track the issue and backport patches if needed. Thanks
My bug was bug 28957 and it is marked as fixed! https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28957 So how do I use the fix?
Created attachment 250189 [details] Testing backport of intel patch I modified the patch to intel_uxa.c to fit in i830_uxa.c and it seems to work. I attached it to my upstream bug report as well. It might make a intel 855GM system more stable without having run unstable git everything.
(In reply to comment #3) > It might make a intel 855GM system more stable without having run unstable git > everything. I won't take this file (partly because it's not a proper patch) in our xf86-video-intel ebuild. Graphics drivers are way too complex for any one distro to muck around with them. Ubuntu does this and it sucks. I want our packages to stay as close as possible to upstream. That's why we provide git ebuilds for almost all X packages. Please ask upstream to include the needed fix in a future bug-fix release of the driver, they usually do. Thanks
