On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2009/02/05 13:18 (GMT-0800) David L composed:
> But last week, my old CRT monitor died and I replaced
> it with a new flat panel. After that, the screen corruption
> came back. That's why I was trying f11 to see if it would
> be any better. So far, it's not looking good. Each release
> since f6, the i810 driver has been worse for me. :(
i810 became an alias for intel, I think over a year ago now. 845, 855 & 945
chips seem to be the most troublesome for the recent intel drivers.
I have this chipset:
(II) intel(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) 865G
(--) intel(0): Chipset: "865G"
and it has also been quite troublesome.
I've successfully done a text mode installation, but the system hung
after startx. I got a bug buddy window with some corruption (I don't
know what crashed) after X started and then nothing for several minutes.
The mouse moved a corrupt little fedora wait icon around the screen,
but there were no other signs of life. I didn't check if I could ping or
ssh into it. I couldn't ctrl-alt-del to reboot and ctrl-alt-backspace didn't
work (although I think I saw in the release notes that it doesn't do
anything by default anymore). In the end, I power cycled and booted
back to the f10 partition (where there is still X corruption but no
hangs). I'm pretty sure the f11 hangs are graphics driver related.
David