[YLUG] Intel Integrated Graphics - a nightmare

[mike cloaked]

After chasing problems installing Fedora 10 on a machine running Intel
Integrated graphics this week I have discovered that the newer Intel
drivers are a total nightmare, and not just for Fedora, but severe
problems have been reported with Ubuntu, Suse and Mandriva.

Seems that the problem is in fact a serious upstream driver issue
There are a lot of reports:
See for example -
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17713
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19090
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17291
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18270
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17756
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19319
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14464
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17638

and the lists at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=xorg-x11-drv-
i810&product=Fedora

or

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/bugs/xorg-x11-drv-i810

It would be nice if Intel would help to get this fixed, given there
are reported severe problems across the range of distros with Suse,
Ubuntu and Mandriva also with newer drivers and the Intel graphics
chipsets of various flavours - this is really bad!


-- 
mike