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[email] [print]  Intel Extreme (2) Graphics Get Driver

May 16, 2006 17:35 UTC, by Kian Duffy, Senior Journalist.
From the extremely-extreme-driver department...

The extremely common Intel Extreme 2 onboard graphics chipset, found in approximately 30% of all computers of a certain age, and an even higher percentage of laptop, small form factor or low-price systems, now has a driver. Or at least the i855 and i865 variants do, and currently only for analogue (VGA) attached monitors.

The driver, which is part of Haiku, is unconnected to the Intel driver which yellowTAB donated; and supports 2D acceleration, video overlays, hardware cursors, and customisable "RAM stealing", which lets you change the amount of RAM which is taken by your card over and above what is allocated by your BIOS by default. The driver is written by Axel Dörfler, who intends to extend the cards it supports to both older and newer models.