-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rodd Clarkson wrote: > Hi All > > I'm setting up a mythtv box and I recently had the opportunity to update > my motherboard. I had been using a board with added nvidia 9x00 > graphics card and it was working well except that the fan on the > graphics card was noisy. > > I did some research with regards to a new card to get, keen to get a > card with reasonable on board graphics that would handle big lcd > displays and also with hdmi and digital/coax outputs. > > In the end I had the choise of two boards. One with an intel graphics > chipset (x4500) and one with an nivida chipset (7100) and given to > ongoing conversation on this list about using vendors that support open > source drivers I decided to go with the intel board. (I'd done some > other research that suggested that the graphics device was supported > including Intels website and fedora documentation (clearly not the right > fedora documentation)). > > You can imagine my disappointment when I couldn't even get X running on > the new board with the intel drivers (I've tried 'i810' and 'intel', > that later of which seems to be much more likely to actually work.) > > So, I've got two choices. > > 1. Give up and put the nvidia graphics card on the board. This has a > number of downfalls. It brings the noisy fan back into play. It also > sees me without hdmi. But, the nvidia driver works well with this card, > so at least I get decent graphics. > > 2. Find out what's up with the 'intel' card and get it working. Sadly, > I'm not skilled in these areas (even though I've been testing fedora > since fc1) and need help. > > I've asked twice (once on f-d-l and once on f-t-l) and both times my > emails have been ignored. > > I've also posted a detailed bug on bugzilla (see: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487619) but haven't had any > response yet. > > I won't attach any log files or other info as it's all in the bug report > and it would just be excess traffic on the list. > > Can someone help? > > > regards > > > Rodd > I replied in the bug. I can try to duplicate things as I have the HD version on the chipset (no HDMI though). - --Ben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmouKoACgkQiPi+MRHG3qTt/ACfa7CzWrtzykjdjKC9tMKt2frD uKQAmQHi6XzTkL7svt0k0yCgwHI/V+d4 =EfWB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
