On 04/19/2010 05:45 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: > 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. :-( > Could you have been bitten by this? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582590 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F13_bugs#black-screen-on-kickstart-install -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 260 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20100419/a4fefc04/attachment.bin
