My new laptop has the i915 video chipset, which doesn't work with the Fedora- included Intel driver, so I tried to install the latest driver. When I couldn't get a result from that I forwarded the log file to Intel and asked for help - incidentally, I'm impressed. I asked yesterday early evening and when I logged in this morning I had a reply. The bug report how-to linked below is to file a bug to freedesktop.org - and frankly looks scarey in the amount of digging it seems to require. However, in view of the answer below, I wonder if it's more appropriate anyway to file a Fedora bug? And what does he mean by the 'kernel config file'? Anne ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: RE: [Ilg] Installing xf86-video-intel-2.10 Date: Friday 16 April 2010, 02:30:56 From: "Jin, Gordon" <gordon.jin at intel.com> To: AnneWilson <anne at lydgate.org>, "ilg at linux.intel.com" <ilg at linux.intel.com> AnneWilson wrote on Friday, April 16, 2010 1:21 AM: > I have compiled the driver for use with Fedora 12, as my new i5 > laptop is currently only displaying with the vesa driver. I'm not > very experienced in building, so asked advice at this point. As > advised, in xorg.conf I created a section 'Files' then added > ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules" > ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" > EndSection > > and changed the driver to "intel". Booting to runlevel 1 I renamed > xorg.conf and moved this new one into xorg.conf. Unfortunately, on > rebooting I got a black screen with blinking cursor. It looks as > though everything else was fine judging by the shutdown messages, > just xorg nor starting. > > Looking at the log file (attached) I think I nearly had it right but > there is some sort of problem with Screen - can you please advise me? > > Thanks > > Anne The log says: (EE) intel(0): No kernel modesetting driver detected. It indicates the kernel doesn't support the this new hardware. But I think Fedora 12 kernel should have supported it. Please file a file according to http://intellinuxgraphics.org/how_to_report_bug.html. Remember attach dmesg output. Better attach kernel config file. Thanks Gordon ----------------------------------------- -- 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/20100416/65e54a91/attachment.bin
