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#1 2009-01-03 22:20:11

woody1987
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new intel driver

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

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#2 2009-01-03 22:41:06

Damnshock
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Re: new intel driver

What you are looking for is on the Testing repo.


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#3 2009-01-04 00:17:31

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Re: new intel driver

Damnshock wrote:

What you are looking for is on the Testing repo.

It is?
Can you point it out to me?


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#4 2009-01-04 00:30:59

woody1987
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Re: new intel driver

I just checked testing, its not there

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#5 2009-01-04 00:35:49

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Re: new intel driver

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


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#6 2009-01-04 00:35:52

fwojciec
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Re: new intel driver

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.

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#7 2009-01-04 00:41:11

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Re: new intel driver

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

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#8 2009-01-04 00:48:03

woody1987
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Re: new intel driver

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.

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#9 2009-01-04 16:42:51

damjan
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Re: new intel driver

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

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#10 2009-01-04 18:47:36

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Re: new intel driver

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

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#11 2009-01-04 19:08:04

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Re: new intel driver

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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