Basic drivers, installation and regular session

Isaac Cortés González w.isaac.cortes at gmail.com
Wed Jun 10 18:14:17 UTC 2015


>> If you installed a desktop spin (Gnome, Xfce, MATE, KDE), then the
>> open source drivers were installed (e.g. nouveau for nVidia chipsets,
>> ati_drv/radeon_drv for AMD chipsets, etc.)
>>
>
> Installing using "basic graphics mode" adds "nomodeset" (which
> disables KMS (Kernel Mode Setting)):
> - to the kernel cmdline in the Live session
> - to /boot/grub2/grub.cfg (or /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg on UEFI systems)
> - to /etc/default/grub (in the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX entry)
>
> that means most of the open source drivers (intel, radeon, nouveau)
> won't work as they, AFAIK, require KMS. Instead the system will be
> using the VESA or the FBDEV X11 drivers.
>
> So post-installation if you want to use the open source driver for
> your gfx chip you'll need to modify grub.cfg; or modify
> /etc/default/grub and then use grub2-mkconfig to regenerate grub.cfg .
>
>> If you want the vendor-provided ones, you need to install the
>> appropriate akmod-whatever or kmod-whatever driver(s) you want.
>
> For vendor-provided/proprietary drivers, nomodeset isn't a problem as
> the proprietary drivers don't use KMS anyway (at the current time at
> least).
>
> --
> Ahmad Samir

OK, right then. What would you change in those files in order to use a
gfx intel?


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