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

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 04/16/2010 07:32 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 16 April 2010 11:12:42 Martin Kho wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> In "/boot/config-2.6.32.11-99.fc12.x86_64" I see:
>>
>> CONFIG_DRM_I915=m
>> CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS=y
>>
> Yes, they are there in 2.6.32.11-102, as well, though I've no idea what 'm'
> means.

module instead of built directly into kernel.


   Nor have I any idea whether it's relevant or not :-)  All I know is
> that when I tried the Fedora-supplied Intel driver I got a black screen with a
> flashing CapsLock.  When I tried the newly installed Intel driver I got a
> black screen, no flash on the CapsLock, but a flashing normal-looking cursor.
> Ctrl-alt-Del showed me processes shutting down in what looked like a very
> normal sequence.  I'm convinced that only the X server was missing.
>
> Anne
>
>
>
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