Comment # 13 on bug 901506 from Felix Miata

(In reply to Egbert Eich from comment #12)
> You haven't stated what problems
> you are facing with SNA (you may have done so in another ticket). It could
> be that those problems that prevent you from using default (SNA) have been
> fixed in 2.99.917. Do you know if this is the case?

My memory of details here is now horribly stale. I have no recollection at all
of acceleration method issues, other than accel method has never been a primary
concern to me, only a way to workaround functionality bugs. Best of my
recollection is the problems with 2.99.916 are as stated in comment 0 and
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83829 and
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85016
which as stated those two bugs were resolved by a regression fix commit on 12
Sept. Had that commit been backported to 13.2's 2.99.916 before 13.2 release I
have to guess 13.2's driver would have been OK,  negating any reason to have
filed this.

> For sure we won't update the release notes as this would require to
> regenerate all translations, I' not sure if it would be a good idea to
> update the intel video driver at this stage. I'm not sure if 2.99.917 is
> such a big advantage over the one we have.

I have lots of installations using Intel. 2.99.917 is clearly superior to
2.99.916 in every installation here for which panning[1] is not required.
2.99.916 is not usable here absent heroics that weren't necessary before
sometime after 2.99.912 (June) when the regression appeared. Before the
regressed version hit Factory, it was usually more convenient, and fully
satisfactory, to configure X using xorg.conf*. Before, only when panning[1] or
scaling[2] was required was xorg.conf* not 100% up to task. Since 2.99.916 hit
Factory last year, I've been forced on installations containing it to either
control Xorg via xrandr, which is clumsier, (e.g. requires partial
configuration via xorg.conf*), and is subject to tripping over bug 929016 , or
to enable either Tobias' BS home or the whole of
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_13.2/ for access
to a driver containing the 12 Sept commit.

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77321
[2] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39949