On Friday 16 April 2010 11:12:42 Martin Kho wrote: > > On 04/16/2010 06:07 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > 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'? > > > > yum install kernel-devel > > > > > > /usr/src/kernels/2.6.32.11-102.fc12.x86_64/.config > > In "/boot/config-2.6.32.11-99.fc12.x86_64" I see: > > CONFIG_DRM_I915=m > CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS=y > Yes, they are there in 2.6.32.11-102, as well, though I've no idea what 'm' means. Nor have I any idea whether it's relevant or not :-) All I know is that when I tried the Fedora-supplied Intel driver I got a black screen with a flashing CapsLock. When I tried the newly installed Intel driver I got a black screen, no flash on the CapsLock, but a flashing normal-looking cursor. Ctrl-alt-Del showed me processes shutting down in what looked like a very normal sequence. I'm convinced that only the X server was missing. 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/20100416/035a0f6e/attachment.bin
