Colin.Guthr.ie » intel http://colin.guthr.ie Illegitimi non carborundum Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:33:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Mandriva 2009.1 and Intel Graphics http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/10/mandriva-2009-1-and-intel-graphics/ http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/10/mandriva-2009-1-and-intel-graphics/#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:35:30 +0000 Colin http://colin.guthr.ie/?p=156 As many of you already (painfully) know, Mandriva 2009.1 was shipped at a rather awkward time in the Intel Graphics Driver's lifecycle. The upstream guys were in the middle of a rather extensive rewrite and consolidation. This meant that the version shipped with 2009.1 did not work all that well for several users. The new intel driver requires careful coordination of kernel, libdrm, mesa and intel driver packages to ensure they all work properly. This requirement meant that providing official updates was difficult due to the fact that kernel updates were often required.

For this reason, myself and Thomas Backlund have been operating a semi-official repository of packages built for 2009.1 specifically for Intel users of 2009.1. This repository contains the latest version of:

  • Kernel (currently 2.6.31.3)
  • LibDRM (currently 2.4.14)
  • Mesa (currently 7.6)
  • Intel Driver (currently 2.9.0)

With these packages installed, performance with the intel driver should be pretty good for most people.

Of course, Mandriva 2010.0 will contain all these versions officially and should present a better OOTB experience for everyone.

The i586 repository can be added via:

urpmi.addmedia TMB-Intel-32 http://tmb.mine.nu/Mandriva/Intel-2009.1/i586/

and the x86_64 version:

urpmi.addmedia TMB-Intel-64 http://tmb.mine.nu/Mandriva/Intel-2009.1/x86_64/

More information can be found on the Mandriva Bugzilla Bug #52601

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