On Wednesday 14 April 2010 12:07:34 Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Wednesday 14 April 2010 11:14:42 Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 April 2010 20:28:06 Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > > You need to find out the model of the graphics card, and use more > > > appropriate driver. Did you try the regular intel driver? What does > > > > > > Xorg -configure > > > > > > detect? > > > > Hmm - hadn't tried that before - I tried setting it up with > > system-configure- display. > > [snip] > > > Section "Device" > > [snip] > > > Identifier "Card0" > > Driver "intel" > > This looks good. Backup the old xorg.conf (just to be sure), replace it > with this generated one, and restart X (or reboot). If X comes up, look at > the output of xrandr again. If not, look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see > what went wrong. > > [snip] > > > I haven't yet tried setting this as the xorg.conf, in case I need to do > > something else to load the Intel driver. > > AFAIK, no, you don't need to do anything else, just replace xorg.conf and > restart X. Appropriate kernel modules and stuff should be loaded > automatically. If something goes wrong, a report should be in Xorg.0.log. > If there are no problems, xrandr should provide you with better resolution > options and choose the highest one by default. > Unfortunately, all I got was a black screen and a flashing caps lock :-( The log file is far too big to attach here. I've uploaded it to http://www.lydgate.org/images/Temp/Xorg.0.log I'm no expert on reading these things, but it looks pretty depressing to me. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20100414/dc4f4293/attachment.bin
