Re: Fedora and the horrible EDID checksum issue with various video cards

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Mark Haney wrote:
On 03/26/2012 12:06 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
Mark Haney wrote:


What is your video chip?

It's an Intel i915. And apparently it's one of the ones with the biggest
problems. It seems the older integrated Intel chips are the ones mostly
causing the trouble.


You can try a Fedora Live image, which will contain the 3.1.0 kernel.
This is a read-only image that does not modify your hard drive. Fedora
16 has just received the 3.3.0 kernel as an update, which may also
contain fixes for you.

Yeah, I can do that, I was kinda hoping for something definitive though.
I don't mind doing it, but this thing has been a PITA for almost a year
now and no one seems to be able to find a way to fix it. Or if it has,
the patch is still upstream for some reason.

To some extent it depends on how much you are attached to GNUOME3. There is fallback mode, there are other window managers which are nicer to the video hardware.

For what it's worth the built-in video on recent Intel offerings use the 915 driver and my newest i5 even runs GNOME3 in normal mode, should someone think that's a desirable thing to do. Functionality seems to be version dependent, however, as most people have found.

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