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-...