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

Martin Kho lists.kho at gmail.com
Fri Apr 16 10:10:37 UTC 2010


> On 04/16/2010 06:07 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > My new laptop has the i915 video chipset, which doesn't work with the
> > Fedora- included Intel driver, so I tried to install the latest driver. 
> > When I couldn't get a result from that I forwarded the log file to Intel
> > and asked for help - incidentally, I'm impressed.  I asked yesterday
> > early evening and when I logged in this morning I had a reply.
> > 
> > The bug report how-to linked below is to file a bug to freedesktop.org -
> > and frankly looks scarey in the amount of digging it seems to require. 
> > However, in view of the answer below, I wonder if it's more appropriate
> > anyway to file a Fedora bug?  And what does he mean by the 'kernel
> > config file'?
> 
> yum install kernel-devel
> 
> 
> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.32.11-102.fc12.x86_64/.config


or "/boot/config-<version>"

Martin Kho

> 
> > Anne
> > 
> > ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> > 
> > Subject: RE: [Ilg] Installing xf86-video-intel-2.10
> > Date: Friday 16 April 2010, 02:30:56
> > From: "Jin, Gordon"<gordon.jin at intel.com>
> > To: AnneWilson<anne at lydgate.org>,
> > "ilg at linux.intel.com"<ilg at linux.intel.com>
> > 
> > AnneWilson wrote on Friday, April 16, 2010 1:21 AM:
> >> I have compiled the driver for use with Fedora 12, as my new i5
> >> laptop is currently only displaying with the vesa driver.  I'm not
> >> very experienced in building, so asked advice at this point.  As
> >> advised, in xorg.conf I created a section 'Files' then added
> >> 
> >> 	ModulePath	"/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
> >> 	ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
> >> 
> >> EndSection
> >> 
> >> and changed the driver to "intel".  Booting to runlevel 1 I renamed
> >> xorg.conf and moved this new one into xorg.conf.  Unfortunately, on
> >> rebooting I got a black screen with blinking cursor.  It looks as
> >> though everything else was fine judging by the shutdown messages,
> >> just xorg nor starting.
> >> 
> >> Looking at the log file (attached) I think I nearly had it right but
> >> there is some sort of problem with Screen - can you please advise me?
> >> 
> >> Thanks
> >> 
> >> Anne
> > 
> > The log says:
> > (EE) intel(0): No kernel modesetting driver detected.
> > 
> > It indicates the kernel doesn't support the this new hardware. But I
> > think Fedora 12 kernel should have supported it. Please file a file
> > according to http://intellinuxgraphics.org/how_to_report_bug.html.
> > Remember attach dmesg output. Better attach kernel config file.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Gordon
> > 
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