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

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 19 April 2010 15:06:18 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 19 April 2010 11:29:58 Ed Greshko wrote:
> > On 04/19/2010 05:45 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On Saturday 17 April 2010 05:13:12 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > >> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > >>> My new laptop has the i915 video chipset,
> > >> 
> > >> Actually it doesn't. i915 is very old and has been supported for
> > >> years. It's just that the driver for all the chipsets 915 and newer
> > >> is called "i915".
> > >> 
> > >> The recommended way to get the latest Intel driver is to upgrade to
> > >> Fedora 13 Beta. Upgrading a driver alone is not easy due to
> > >> dependencies on the kernel, as you have seen, and other components (at
> > >> least: libdrm, mesa).
> > > 
> > > I've just used the Beta DVD to upgrade to F13 - got to the reboot, and
> > > I'm sitting in front of a black screen with a flashing cursor. :-(
> > 
> > Could you have been bitten by this?
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582590
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F13_bugs#black-screen-on-kickstart-
> > in stall
> 
> No, it was neither of them.  grub.conf contained 'nomodeset' in the kernel
> line.  I didn't put it there, and have not been able to find out how it got
> there.  Since this laptop is only a couple of weeks old, I would know if I
> had done it.
> 
> Unfortunately, after what looked like a good boot, I got constantly thrown
> back to the login.  Examination showed very many F12 packages.  Running a
> 'yum upgrade' told me that I needed 20 new packages and 579 to be
> upgraded.  That's just finished and I'm rebooting at the moment.
> 
> Hmm - it boots to the f-infinity logo, then stops.
> 
There were many issues - not the least being that I should not have been 
tempted to upgrade when I know it can be a pain ;-)  It turned out that in 
addition to the huge update needed, there was something in my plasma settings 
that caused problems.  I renames plasma-desktop-appletsrc and plasma-desktoprc 
- and now at last I have a good display, stable, and at a good resolution.

Anne
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