xf86-video-intel 2.6.1 Display Driver Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: xf86-video-intel 2.6.1 Display Driver Released

Intel's Eric Anholt has announced the immediate release of the xf86-video-intel 2.6.1 driver. This update coming just a week after the xf86-video-intel 2.6.0 release fixes a stability issue and kernel mode-setting fixes, More fixes are expected to land in the open-source Intel X.Org driver in the near future. The release announcement and source download link for xf86-video-intel 2.6.1 can be found on the X.Org mailing list...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzAxMw

[spinctrl]

Phoronix: xf86-video-intel 2.6.1 Display Driver Released

Preliminary Display Port output support was announced back with version 2.4, however, this still does not work with 2.6.1.

The integrated G45 controller works fine through the displayport conenctor when at the console, but attempting to start Xorg 1.6 with the intel 2.6.1 driver reports that no outputs are available.

Xorg.0.log:

(**) intel(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) intel(0): RGB weight 888
(==) intel(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(**) intel(0): Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
(II) intel(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) G45/G43
(--) intel(0): Chipset: "G45/G43"
(--) intel(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xD0000000
(--) intel(0): IO registers at addr 0xFE400000
(WW) intel(0): libpciaccess reported 0 rom size, guessing 64kB
(**) intel(0): Using EXA for acceleration
(II) intel(0): 2 display pipes available.
(II) intel(0): Output VGA using monitor section monitor1
(II) intel(0): I2C bus "SDVOCTRL_E for SDVOC" initialized.
(II) intel(0): I2C device "SDVOCTRL_E for SDVOC:SDVO Controller C" registered at address 0x72.
(II) intel(0): No SDVO device found on SDVOC
(II) intel(0): I2C device "SDVOCTRL_E for SDVOC:SDVO Controller C" removed.
(II) intel(0): I2C bus "SDVOCTRL_E for SDVOC" removed.
(II) intel(0): Output HDMI-2 has no monitor section
(II) intel(0): I2C bus "HDMIDDC_C" initialized.
(II) intel(0): HDMI output 2 detected
(II) intel(0): Output VGA disconnected
(II) intel(0): Output HDMI-2 disconnected
(WW) intel(0): No outputs definitely connected, trying again...
(II) intel(0): Output VGA disconnected
(II) intel(0): Output HDMI-2 disconnected
(WW) intel(0): Unable to find initial modes
(EE) intel(0): No valid modes.
(II) UnloadModule: "intel"
(II) UnloadModule: "vgahw"
(II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libvgahw.so
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

A quick grep through the intel source shows a lot more #defines for HDMI than DP... I would use HDMI, only this does not support my 30" monitor at the correct resolution.

Does anyone have DisplayPort working with linux? using intel, ati, or nvidia?

[whizse]

File a bug report? http://intellinuxgraphics.org/how_to_report_bug.html

I don't know about DisplayPort, but in general these kind of problems seems to be a high priority for the intel developers.

[spinctrl]

Bug report filed:

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19995