On Saturday 17 April 2010 05:13:12 Kevin Kofler wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > My new laptop has the i915 video chipset, > > Actually it doesn't. i915 is very old and has been supported for years. > It's just that the driver for all the chipsets 915 and newer is called > "i915". > > The recommended way to get the latest Intel driver is to upgrade to Fedora > 13 Beta. Upgrading a driver alone is not easy due to dependencies on the > kernel, as you have seen, and other components (at least: libdrm, mesa). > You know, the first time I mentioned this, someone suggested that I try F13 alpha - and someone else immediately jumped in that I should not, I should wait for the release. In fact I did try it, but had the same display problems. I'll download the beta and try that. 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/20100417/c41e1f36/attachment.bin
