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

[Ed Greshko]

On 04/19/2010 05:45 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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).
>>
>>     
> I've just used the Beta DVD to upgrade to F13 - got to the reboot, and I'm 
> sitting in front of a black screen with a flashing cursor. :-(
>   
Could you have been bitten by this?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582590
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F13_bugs#black-screen-on-kickstart-install


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