[elrepo-devel] Intel graphics driver 2.21.0 for CentOS 6

[Alan Bartlett]

On 11 April 2014 18:27, Rudy Eschauzier <reschauzier at yahoo.com> wrote:
> CentOS recently released version 2.21.12-2 of the intel graphics driver.
> Although from the version number this seems to be an improvement over the
> 2.21.2-1 that was released to elrepo-testing a little while ago, in practice
> it is not.
>
> The newly released CentOS 6.5 version suffers a bad memory leak when playing
> full screen Flash video, causing Xorg to come to a crawl and crash
> eventually.
>
> I have ported version 2.21.15-5 of the driver from Fedora 20 to CentOS 6.5.
> In this version the memory leak is gone, and performance excellent. It also
> fully supports the TearFree option as described below.
>
> If anyone is interested, I can provide the RPM and SRPMS.
>
> Thanks,
> Rudy.

Hi Rudy,

Thank you for offering your packages. Normally Akemi would respond but
being currently on vacation, I think it best that I reply.

Having checked, for my own understanding, I see we currently carry the
following packages --

[quote]
./extras/el6/i386/RPMS/intel-gpu-tools-2.21.2-1.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm
./extras/el6/i386/RPMS/xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.21.2-1.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm
./extras/el6/i386/RPMS/xorg-x11-drv-intel-devel-2.21.2-1.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm
./extras/el6/SRPMS/xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.21.2-1.el6.elrepo.src.rpm
./extras/el6/x86_64/RPMS/intel-gpu-tools-2.21.2-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
./extras/el6/x86_64/RPMS/xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.21.2-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
./extras/el6/x86_64/RPMS/xorg-x11-drv-intel-devel-2.21.2-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
[/quote]

And the package changelog tells me that earlier version is also your
handiwork --

[quote]
* Thu Mar 14 2013 Akemi Yagi <toracat at elrepo.org> 2.21.2-1.el6.elrepo
- rebuild for ELRepo
- spec file contributed by Rudy Eschauzier <reschauzier at yahoo.com>
  backports the driver to xorg server 1.10.6-1 by including two sed lines
[/quote]

What would you prefer to do? Send me the specification file via e-mail
(direct to my personal address)? Or place the SRPM file in a location
from which I may download it?

Thank you, once again, for continuing to maintain this package.

Alan.