Intel HD 3000 video & blank screen during install of F15

[Ric Wheeler]

On 08/03/2011 10:13 AM, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On 8/3/11 8:58 AM, Ric Wheeler wrote:
>
>> I have a shiny new laptop (HP Pavilion dm4) with the Sandy Bridge video (HD
>> 3000). Installing F15 or the nightly F16 build causes a blank screen during the
>> install. Installing/running basic video works but is annoying.
>>
>> I have spent a few days poking around, looking for known issues. Is this unique
>> to me? If not fedora-devel, what is the right forum to post to with details?
>
> The upstream list for issues with Intel graphics chips is 
> intel-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org, but there's probably a fair bit of 
> information we should get first.  I've been chasing a pile of Sandybridge 
> issues for RHEL6 anyway, so we might as well start here.
>
> The standard reference page for information to collect for debugging KMS 
> problems is here:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Xorg_problems#KMS-related_issues
>
> Ignore the bits about testing the non-KMS environment and the X log, they're 
> not going to be relevant for you.  But the video ROM, register dump, and dmesg 
> output will all be informative.
>
> - ajax

Thanks, I will work through collecting that information and post it for us.

If you do need access to this particular chipset, let me know :)

Ric