On Wednesday 14 April 2010 13:13:55 Martin Kho wrote: > > 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. > > Hi Anne, > > May be your Ironlake chip is too new. See Adam Jackson' post [1], first > post April, 06 2010. > > Martin Kho > > [1] http://www.kernelplanet.org/fedora/ > Yes, it's an i5 laptop. For the first time in my life I get better-than- average hardware, chosen because it has Intel-everything, and Intel are better than most at supporting Linux - and what do I get? Graphics that can be beaten by my (oldest) 8 year old laptop. I guess I'm just stuck with it, for now. Thanks for trying to help. 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/adb506f9/attachment.bin
