[elrepo] can the xf86-video-intel-2.15.0 drivers be ported to el5 (kmod package?)

[S.Tindall]

On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 20:31 +0100, Phil Perry wrote:
> On 26/04/11 18:59, Maurits van de Lande wrote:
> > I'm using a Shuttle X50V2 with an Intel GMA3150 graphics on-board on centos 5.6. Unfortunately the GMA3150 is not supported. The latest intel Xorg drivers are written for kernel 2.6.38. Is it possible to build this driver for el5?
> >
> > See: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/driver/xf86-video-intel-2.15.0.tar.bz2
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Maurits van de Lande
> >
> >
> 
> I don't think it's possible.
> 
> A starting point would be to look at the latest upstream (RHEL, Fedora) 
> packages, now renamed xorg-x11-drv-intel. RHEL 6 ships with v2.11 and 
> Fedora 14 with v2.12. Even those older versions have Requires far beyond 
> what is present in RHEL5. IMHO this looks like a non-starter.
> 
> I think you'll need to pick a distro that supports the hardware out of 
> the box in this instance.

GMA 3150 works fine under EL6.

# cat /etc/redhat-release
Scientific Linux release 6.0 (Carbon)

# uname -r
2.6.32-71.24.1.el6.x86_64

# dmidecode|grep "Atom\|GMA"
Version: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D510 @ 1.66GHz
Description: Intel(R) GMA 3150 Video Device

# lspci|grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

# lspci -n|grep 00:02.0
00:02.0 0300: 8086:a001 (rev 02)

# grep 8086 /lib/modules/*/modules.alias|grep -i a001
/lib/modules/2.6.32-71.24.1.el6.x86_64/modules.alias:alias
pci:v00008086d0000A001sv*sd*bc03sc00i* i915
/lib/modules/2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64/modules.alias:alias
pci:v00008086d0000A001sv*sd*bc03sc00i* i915

Steve