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[Ben Straton <thefanum@xxxxxxxxx>]

So to clarify for everyone who had not been paying attention: 11.10 will
work out of the box for this chipset? And everyone below will need to
enable the intel driver manually? Is that correct?

Ben Straton

On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 23:12 +0000, Stenten wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Christiansen
> <541511@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> 
> > As the upstream bugfixes is apparently only applied to the latest
> > kernels (3.0) and demands drivers from xserver-xorg-video-intel never
> > than 2.14 (2.15 is in Oneiric right now), reenabling the intel driver
> > will only work for Oneiric (11.10) at present time.
> 
> 
> This is not true. The fix has been in the mainline kernel since 2.6.38-rc7.
> So if you're running Maverick (which uses the .38 kernel), you already have
> the patch. You just need to load the -intel driver instead of fbdev like you
> mentioned. This is what I am doing right now in fact.
>

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