On Friday 15 January 2010 06:59:01 pm damian perez wrote: > Hi, everybody i bought a new laptopt Gateway, core i3, intel video > card. I've tested ubuntu and mandriva without good video results. I > have installed Fedora 12, i'm using an external lcd samsung screen > on the vga port, it works fine. My display properties shows two > screen as well as the correct resolutions...the problem it that i > can't use my latopt screen, i have tried different resolutions..but > nothing. I can't use mi laptopt without an external screen. Even if > i boot without my external screen, my laptopt screen goes black > Could somebody give me some ideas about it? Because the Intel core > I3 is too new i couldn't find information over internet, mi lspci > shows that the card is an i915 based. > I have tried a lot of diferent things, but, i couldn't fix it. > Thank you > Here is some information about Intel and their video drivers relevant to linux: http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-010512.htm A driver is available for openSUSE. Go to this link and enter "i915" (without the quotes), then select "ALL" in the selection box and click on search. There is a mesa driver from the openSUSE build service. Don't know if it will work in another distro. http://software.opensuse.org/search -- Thanks, Tom (retired penguin) openSUSE 11.2 x86_64, KDE 4.3.1 linxt@xxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ laptop mailing list laptop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/laptop
