Fwd: RE: [Ilg] Installing xf86-video-intel-2.10

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On Monday 19 April 2010 11:29:58 Ed Greshko wrote:
> 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-in
> stall

No, it was neither of them.  grub.conf contained 'nomodeset' in the kernel 
line.  I didn't put it there, and have not been able to find out how it got 
there.  Since this laptop is only a couple of weeks old, I would know if I had 
done it.

Unfortunately, after what looked like a good boot, I got constantly thrown 
back to the login.  Examination showed very many F12 packages.  Running a 'yum 
upgrade' told me that I needed 20 new packages and 579 to be upgraded.  That's 
just finished and I'm rebooting at the moment.

Hmm - it boots to the f-infinity logo, then stops.

Anne
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