Help me use 'intel' over 'nvidia'

Ankur Sinha sanjay.ankur at gmail.com
Sat Feb 28 03:41:42 UTC 2009


On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 14:17 +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I'm setting up a mythtv box and I recently had the opportunity to update
> my motherboard.  I had been using a board with added nvidia 9x00
> graphics card and it was working well except that the fan on the
> graphics card was noisy.
> 
> I did some research with regards to a new card to get, keen to get a
> card with reasonable on board graphics that would handle big lcd
> displays and also with hdmi and digital/coax outputs.
> 
> In the end I had the choise of two boards.  One with an intel graphics
> chipset (x4500) and one with an nivida chipset (7100) and given to
> ongoing conversation on this list about using vendors that support open
> source drivers I decided to go with the intel board. (I'd done some
> other research that suggested that the graphics device was supported
> including Intels website and fedora documentation (clearly not the right
> fedora documentation)).
> 
> You can imagine my disappointment when I couldn't even get X running on
> the new board with the intel drivers (I've tried 'i810' and 'intel',
> that later of which seems to be much more likely to actually work.)
> 
> So, I've got two choices.
> 
> 1. Give up and put the nvidia graphics card on the board.  This has a
> number of downfalls.  It brings the noisy fan back into play.  It also
> sees me without hdmi.  But, the nvidia driver works well with this card,
> so at least I get decent graphics.
> 
> 2. Find out what's up with the 'intel' card and get it working.  Sadly,
> I'm not skilled in these areas (even though I've been testing fedora
> since fc1) and need help.
> 
> I've asked twice (once on f-d-l and once on f-t-l) and both times my
> emails have been ignored.
> 
> I've also posted a detailed bug on bugzilla (see:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487619) but haven't had any
> response yet.
> 
> I won't attach any log files or other info as it's all in the bug report
> and it would just be excess traffic on the list.
> 
> Can someone help?
> 
> 
> regards
> 
> 
> Rodd
> 
> -- 
> "It's a fine line between denial and faith.
>  It's much better on my side"
> 

hi Rodd,

Have you tried #fedora on free node ? thats the place for end users
support. These lists that you've mailed are for other purposes. Since
you haven't added [Ambassadors] or anything of the sort in your subject,
most filters will not place this email at the right places.. Hence the
poor response..

#fedora or the fedoraforum would be the place for such a query. 

regards,

Ankur




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