Comment 29 for bug 516909

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:57 PM, melroch wrote:
> As an ordinary user who has been offered a desktop with a Core i3 2.93
> GHz with integrated graphics (don't know which subtype but can ask), may
> I ask how long I will reasonably have to wait until a regular release
> supports that processor? TIA

We hope that it will work well in Lucid which is due to be released on
April 29th [1]. But since we don't write the code, we depend on the
upstream code to work.

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:47 PM, KeithM wrote:
> @madbiologist: Does the driver you are speaking of need compiled first,
> in order to be installed? xf86-video-intel 2.11.0 RC1 (v2.10.901) --
> found the links, but it appears to be just source?

The xorg-edgers PPA [2] currently has xserver-xorg-video-intel
(2:2.10.901+git20100226.a0ee9c3d-0ubuntu0sarvatt) which is identical
to 2.11.0 RC1. Of course, since this PPA will be updated continuously,
things may break in the future, but if you find the driver to work and
stop updating xorg, you may have a stable system until things are
better supported. Note that it is often problem in the kernel drivers
and not necessarily the DDX driver (which is what
xf86-video-intel/xserver-xorg-video-intel is).

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidReleaseSchedule
[2]: https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa