new intel driver

woody1987 · 2009-01-03 22:20:11

I just installed arch for the first time and i have installed the xf86-video-intel driver and it is working fine, but i noticed that its only the 2.4.x version and not the latest 2.5.x, i thought this was rolling release? Have i missed something? Is it possible for me to get it? When i run pacman -Ss xf86-video-intel i get:

extra/xf86-video-intel 2.4.3-1 (xorg-video-drivers)
    X.org Intel i810/i830/i915/945G/G965+ video drivers

Last edited by woody1987 (2009-01-03 22:22:24)

Damnshock · 2009-01-03 22:41:06

What you are looking for is on the Testing repo.

pyther · 2009-01-04 00:17:31

Damnshock wrote:

What you are looking for is on the Testing repo.

It is?
Can you point it out to me?

woody1987 · 2009-01-04 00:30:59

I just checked testing, its not there

pyther · 2009-01-04 00:35:49

libdrm PKGBUILD:

# $Id: PKGBUILD 18909 2008-11-10 08:19:53Z jgc $
# Maintainer: Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>

pkgname=libdrm
pkgver=2.4.3
pkgrel=0
pkgdesc="Userspace interface to kernel DRM services"
arch=(i686 x86_64)
depends=('glibc')
options=('!libtool' 'force')
url="http://dri.freedesktop.org/"
source=(http://dri.freedesktop.org/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2)
#md5sums=('620fe7dd02c3236c3e9881a3a238173d')

build() {
  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
  ./configure --prefix=/usr || return 1
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install || return 1
}

xf86-video-intel

# $Id: PKGBUILD 20120 2008-11-30 16:46:02Z jgc $
# Maintainer: Alexander Baldeck <alexander@archlinux.org>
# Maintainer: Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
pkgname=xf86-video-intel
pkgver=2.5.99.1
pkgrel=0
pkgdesc="X.org Intel i810/i830/i915/945G/G965+ video drivers"
arch=(i686 x86_64)
url="http://xorg.freedesktop.org/"
depends=('intel-dri>=7.2' 'libpciaccess>=0.10.5' 'libdrm>=2.3.1')
makedepends=('pkgconfig' 'xorg-server>=1.5.3' 'xf86driproto>=2.0.4' 'glproto>=1.4.9' 'mesa>=7.2' 'libdrm=2.4.3')
conflicts=('xorg-server<1.5.3' 'xf86-video-i810')
replaces=('xf86-video-i810')
options=('!libtool' 'force')
groups=('xorg-video-drivers')
source=(${url}/releases/individual/driver/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2)
#md5sums=('a664819288b98a37f77ab6ae1e14c9d9'
#         '68a362a168ffa4f37d9f722f43855468'
#         '2d617364ac2e47ca366901d0b849b1a1'
#         '3d0f8e593e8eac3000154feb6b0f45b8'
#         '3deb800906e6845e8576d4e9d0f22b12'
#         'cb7ee7a68858c038020e0cd991143d8e'
#         'd215e428585c6e55aefd9f525ebfbe7b')

build() {
  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
  ./configure --prefix=/usr \
              --enable-dri || return 1
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install || return 1
}

make a xf86-video-intel dir and a libdrm and place the PKGBUILD in each respectively then run makepkg

fwojciec · 2009-01-04 00:35:52

I think the new intel driver requires 2.6.28 kernel and an updated libdrm package, maybe some other additional stuff as well, so it's not simply a matter of updating the intel driver.

It'll show up in [testing] soon enough.

peart · 2009-01-04 00:41:11

The 2.5 version of the Intel driver was in testing a while back, but it was removed because it was causing too many headaches: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev … 08770.html

woody1987 · 2009-01-04 00:48:03

ok, thanks everyone, ill just wait till it comes into testing instead of compiling myself, im quite new to this and have spent along time getting this far.

damjan · 2009-01-04 16:42:51

How about "intel-dri" .. don't you need to update that too?

mutlu_inek · 2009-01-04 18:47:36

damjan wrote:

How about "intel-dri" .. don't you need to update that too?

Yes, indeed. There is a thread about more recent compiled packages here:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=61650

pyther · 2009-01-04 19:08:04

damjan wrote:

How about "intel-dri" .. don't you need to update that too?

That will probably help a bit with performance, but I haven't tried to compile it, as you need to use git/svn. However upgrading libdrm and xf86-video-intel has given me better stability with the 2.6.28 kernel. Prior to upgrading those packages I had a bunch of xorg crashes/freezes.

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