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).
You know, the first time I mentioned this, someone suggested that I try F13
alpha - and someone else immediately jumped in that I should not, I should
wait for the release. In fact I did try it, but had the same display
problems.
I'll download the beta and try that.
Anne
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