Intel graphics drivers for linux

I dont think I said that. AIUI intel release development source whichh the OP had 'issues' with whereas code derived from those drivers and in the public domain but NOT maintained by INTEL dies work.

The OP did not share your experience.

What you said was

"IIRC Intel don't support linux at all, and h 's***ty drivers' have to be reverse engineered by guessing at how the chipset works and hoping that you got it right. "

And then you wrote

"That's because [the intel driver in Xorg is] the one that takes intel sample code and develops it to actually work"

Unfortunately for your argument, the driver which you say "actually works" is the one which is written by Intel. The Intel which you say "don't support Linux at all".

And which code is that, pray? Can't be the X.org stuff, obviously.

Ian

FFS, shut up the pair of you. No-one cares.

Apart from you, of course. And it might be relevant to anyone looking for Intel drivers who could be misled by our philosophical friend's misapprehension.

Hugs,

Ian

No-one looks at Usenet.

Nit-pick: UNIX standards switched to X/Open (The Open Group), not to IEEE. ("The POSIX standards body" is IEEE - they own the POSIX trademark).

Of course since 2001 there has been a single joint standard for POSIX.1 and the base volumes of the Single UNIX Specification, which is maintained by IEEE, The Open Group, and ISO, so it's not an important distinction any more. I just felt compelled to nit-pick on the historical inaccuracy :-)

And how is the search for a life going? :o)