[plug] graphic driver Debian

[Craig Ringer]

Cameron Patrick wrote:

> | If the driver is included in XFree86 4.3 you should be able to pull 
> | XFree86 4.3 from Sid.
> 
> XFree86 4.3 is in Sid now?  Cool, someone should let Branden know :-P

Uggh. You're kidding, right? Forgive me for not checking - I don't use 
Debian anymore, and 4.3 has been shipping for nearly a year. "The 
current XFree86 release is version 4.3.0 which was released on 27 
February 2003". I thought I'd heard about it going into Sid, but 
apparently there's an /experimental/ branch as well, and 4.3 is in 
/that/. *sigh*.

http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/NEWS.xhtml :

[28 December] XFree86 4.3.0-0pre1v5 has been accepted into Debian 
experimental, and Daniel Stone's temporary packages have thus been removed.
daniel

The fact that packages.debian.org is still not working doesn't help.

Cameron Patrick also wrote:

 > The page you link to suggests that 3D acceleration is supported by the
 > XFree86 drivers.

So it does. Presumably there's a reason Intel provide their own, though.

Craig Ringer