Help me use 'intel' over 'nvidia'
Ben Boeckel
MathStuf at gmail.com
Sat Feb 28 04:08:10 UTC 2009
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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
>
I replied in the bug. I can try to duplicate things as I have the HD version
on the chipset (no HDMI though).
- --Ben
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