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). > I've just used the Beta DVD to upgrade to F13 - got to the reboot, and I'm sitting in front of a black screen with a flashing cursor. :-( 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/20100419/75c59417/attachment.bin
