Cannot choose Beryl as the windows manager

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Mon May 7 12:55:20 UTC 2007


On 07/05/07, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:
>
> So?  What happened?  What led you to conclude that this laptop's video was
> fully supported?
>
> Now, I do see that one video option listed on Dell's web site, for your
> laptop -- that's one out of four options -- is an Intel 950 chipset.
>
> According to
> http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Intel?action=highlight&value=CategoryHardware,
> this chipset appears to be supported by Mesa (by the i945 driver).  Although
> you'd still need to verify if the version of Mesa shipped in Fedora includes
> the i950 support, that's probably what happened.  Somebody had this laptop
> with the i950 chipset option, and told you that they had working 3D
> acceleration, but neglected to mention that you have to order this option.
>

It's what I try to call a 'learning experience' in hindsight :)

Dotan Cohen

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