Fedora 13 End of Life - STILL can't update to F15

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:33:46 +1100
Philip Rhoades <phil at pricom.com.au> wrote:

> Kevin,
> 
> 
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 07:09:42 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:19:58 +1100
> > Philip Rhoades <phil at pricom.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > ...snip...
> >
> >> - "init 5" - Fails with "/dev/fb0" does not exist errors (it does
> >> exist) - the same problem as the previous versions.
> >
> > Thats actually a cosmetic thing and not the real error. ;)
> 
> 
> Cosmetic?

Everyone gets this message. it's a minor bug that doesn't affect it
working or not. ;) 

> > Do you have a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file?
> 
> 
> No.

ok

> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation System
> Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) Graphics Controller (rev 07)
> (It is working fine with F13).

I'm very sorry. ;( 

So, this is the video adapter that intel subcontraced out the writing
of the driver for, and never open sourced it. ;( 

You have 2 choices: 

1) You can run in 'vesa' mode. It won't be great, but it should work at
least. Boot the installed with 'linux xdriver=vesa' or choose 'basic
video mode' at the boot up prompts from the media. 

2) There's a repackaging of the binary only driver in rpmfusion.
(rpmfusion.org). However, it doesn't exist for f15, so you would be
stuck on an older release. ;( 

Sorry. 

kevin
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