<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424734506569_66744"><span>Nikolai,</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424734506569_66742"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424734506569_52039"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424734506569_52038">As far as Intel DRM work for illumos, that is proposed for GSoC 2015 development which ends Q4 2015.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424734506569_52036"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424734506569_52034"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424734506569_66740">As far as Martin, there is Martin's OpenSXCE distro. He currently mentioned a new release.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424734506569_52034"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424734506569_66754">Also, there is Tribblix. Both distros are desktop-centric and support older Intel GPU chipsets (but not the newer ones). There is still the Hipster-20141010 ISO release you use today. </span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424734506569_52032"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424734506569_52028"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424734506569_52030">As far as Hipster, there are the supported ISO releases. The Hipster-2015 IPS repo is a moving target (considered 'dev', bleeding edge, or 'hair on fire' development) not for general production or </span>day-to-day operations. There are other snapshots that may produce 'tested' package releases - which is really what you are discussing. True development releases are never for the general public (aka users) - if untested by 'QA'.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424734506569_52024"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424734506569_52022">If you are tracking new releases from Hipster Dev which happens to plunge your desktop environment into a dark abyss, remember the rule: Either press the panic button or don't do it!!!</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424734506569_52020"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424734506569_52020">The drop of support for the older Intel driver is by design of the newer X infrastructure - not us. We are moving to the newer Xorg Intel driver(s) and when Intel DRM for illumos is in place - we will strike the iron while hot... </div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424734506569_52018"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424734506569_52018">~ Ken</div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Monday, February 23, 2015 10:58 AM, Nikola M <minikola@gmail.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><br clear="none">On 02/22/15 05:56 PM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote:<br clear="none">> Hi.<br clear="none">> Unfortunately, we hit an issue, when older Intel video drivers don't <br clear="none">> compile with newer Xorg and newer one require DRM update.<br clear="none">> Until kernel drm work is done vesa driver can be used with Intel chips.<br clear="none">> This sounds awful, but I don't have better sollution now.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="https://www.illumos.org/issues/5637" target="_blank">https://www.illumos.org/issues/5637</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Is there any time frame for DRM update , anyone doing work on this also <br clear="none">on other illumos desktop distros or we are looking at the dark here?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">If issue was known prior to updates, could it be considered to have <br clear="none">other (older) Xorg packages as current workaround? (And maybe <br clear="none">auto-selected during update from 20141010 if problem with Intel graphics <br clear="none">is already known ?)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Intel graphics could be considered as very huge user base problem for <br clear="none">anyone trying to install Hipster then, I can suppose this can only turn <br clear="none">more people off.<br clear="none">As I am not to be expected to use OI Hipster for everyday tasks on my <br clear="none">hardware with current state of drivers, but could keep updating BE and <br clear="none">try debugging and testing whenever asked.<div class="yqt2080067067" id="yqtfd46650"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">oi-dev mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:oi-dev@openindiana.org" href="mailto:oi-dev@openindiana.org">oi-dev@openindiana.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev" target="_blank">http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>