[oi-dev] [HEADSUP] X server update in OpenIndiana Hipster

[ken mays]

Nikolai,
As far as Intel DRM work for illumos, that is proposed for GSoC 2015 development which ends Q4 2015.
As far as Martin, there is Martin's OpenSXCE distro. He currently mentioned a new release.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. 
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 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'.
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!!!
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... 
~ Ken 

     On Monday, February 23, 2015 10:58 AM, Nikola M <minikola at gmail.com> wrote:
   

 
On 02/22/15 05:56 PM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
> Hi.
> Unfortunately, we hit an issue, when older Intel video drivers don't 
> compile with newer Xorg and newer one require DRM update.
> Until kernel drm work is done vesa driver can be used with Intel chips.
> This sounds awful, but I don't have better sollution now.
>
> https://www.illumos.org/issues/5637

Is there any time frame for DRM update , anyone doing work on this also 
on other illumos desktop distros or we are looking at the dark here?

If issue was known prior to updates, could it be considered to have 
other (older) Xorg packages as current workaround? (And maybe 
auto-selected during update from 20141010 if problem with Intel graphics 
is already known ?)

Intel graphics could be considered as very huge user base problem for 
anyone trying to install Hipster then, I can suppose this can only turn 
more people off.
As I am not to be expected to use OI Hipster for everyday tasks on my 
hardware with current state of drivers, but could keep updating BE and 
try debugging and testing whenever asked.


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