Fwd: RE: [Ilg] Installing xf86-video-intel-2.10

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 17 April 2010 05:13:12 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > My new laptop has the i915 video chipset,
> 
> Actually it doesn't. i915 is very old and has been supported for years.
> It's just that the driver for all the chipsets 915 and newer is called
> "i915".
> 
> The recommended way to get the latest Intel driver is to upgrade to Fedora
> 13 Beta. Upgrading a driver alone is not easy due to dependencies on the
> kernel, as you have seen, and other components (at least: libdrm, mesa).
> 
You know, the first time I mentioned this, someone suggested that I try F13 
alpha - and someone else immediately jumped in that I should not, I should 
wait for the release.  In fact I did try it, but had the same display 
problems.

I'll download the beta and try that.

Anne
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