915resolution enhancement (by SUSE)

[Bill Nottingham]

Thorsten Leemhuis (fedora at leemhuis.info) said: 
> On 14.02.2008 21:22, Jos Vos wrote:
> > A suggestion for the 915resolution maintainer: you may want to look
> > at SUSE's patches for 915resolution to support more recent Intel
> > chipsets.  Their src.rpm including the patches can be found at:
> > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/Drivers:/Video:/intel-G33/SLE_10_SP1/repodata/repoview/915resolution-0-0.5.2.1-35.1.html
> > Their patch to support more chipsets seems to be pretty straigtforward.
> > 
> > Using their patched version just saved my life (well, kind of ;-))
> > on RHEL5, where I could get my HW config working (new G33 chipset)
> > with the "i810" driver on 1680x1050 after using 915resolution.
> 
> While at it a small addition: 915resolution is on the EPEL wishlist. Are
> there any volunteers here that want to take care of it in EPEL?

Note that the intel modesetting driver will most likely appear in future
releases of RHEL 5, making i915resolution obsolete there as well.

Bill