No X on F9/F10 with Intel 82915G/GV/910GL
Adam Jackson
ajax at redhat.com
Tue Nov 25 21:57:28 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 23:45 +0100, Jos Vos wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 03:40:47PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
>
> > In RHEL5 you'd still be using the old BIOS-based i810 driver (assuming
> > you installed with 5.1 or older), which might work through blind luck.
>
> Yes, in my RHEL5 notes I wrote that I should use the "i810" driver (maybe
> there the "intel" driver was chosen by default).
>
> I see that it's still there (/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/i810_drv.so),
> but it does not seem to work (I only tried it remotely, I'm not in the
> office anymore):
It's not really still there, it's just a symlink, the intel driver
responds to both names so people with i810 in their config file get
working X across upgrades. We should probably just munge the config
file and drop the symlink at this point.
- ajax
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