Fedora and the horrible EDID checksum issue with various video cards

[Mark Haney]

On 03/26/2012 04:14 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Mark Haney wrote:
>> On 03/26/2012 12:06 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>>> Mark Haney wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> What is your video chip?
>>
>> It's an Intel i915. And apparently it's one of the ones with the biggest
>> problems. It seems the older integrated Intel chips are the ones mostly
>> causing the trouble.
>>

>>
> To some extent it depends on how much you are attached to GNUOME3. There
> is fallback mode, there are other window managers which are nicer to the
> video hardware.

I'm not attached to GNOME3.  I'm a KDE guy.  That's part of the reason 
I've switched back to Fedora from Ubuntu.  They are dropping KDE for 
their Unity interface (based on GNOME) and I /detest/ GNOME with a 
passion.

>
> For what it's worth the built-in video on recent Intel offerings use the
> 915 driver and my newest i5 even runs GNOME3 in normal mode, should
> someone think that's a desirable thing to do. Functionality seems to be
> version dependent, however, as most people have found.
>

I don't believe this bug is WM dependent, since it's a hardware issue 
based on what I've read.  That said, it's a real PITA and I'm hoping a 
live CD of F16 and one of the 3.(>0) kernels will work smoothly.



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Mark Haney
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