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 -- 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/20100419/058ee7d2/attachment.bin
