On 04/16/2010 07:32 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > 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. module instead of built directly into kernel. 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 mailing list > kde at lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
