On Monday 19 April 2010 15:06:18 Anne Wilson wrote: > 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. > There were many issues - not the least being that I should not have been tempted to upgrade when I know it can be a pain ;-) It turned out that in addition to the huge update needed, there was something in my plasma settings that caused problems. I renames plasma-desktop-appletsrc and plasma-desktoprc - and now at last I have a good display, stable, and at a good resolution. 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/20100419/772ebc3d/attachment.bin
