F10 and built-in Intel graphics

[M A Young]

On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Matthew Saltzman wrote:

> I have a Dell P4 desktop machine with a built-in Intel graphics card.
> lspci reports:
>
>        00:02.0 VGA compatible controller Intel Corp
>        82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device
>        (rev 01)
>
> The graphical installer freezes and X freezes after a short time
> (usually seconds or tens of seconds) after starting (even with a fully
> updated system).  I've seen reports of issues with the Intel graphics
> driver on F10, but does anyone have a way of making this work or does
> anyone know what the status is of the driver?
>
> I'd consider putting another card in, but the only slots in the machine
> are PCI and it hardly seems worth it, as I got the machine for free and
> it will mostly be running relatively non-graphics-intensive Windows XP
> stuff.

I recommend that you do a text based install (add text to the boot line), 
and once you have it installed, boot to a text console (add 3 to the boot 
line), then add Option "NoAccel" "true" to the Device section of 
/etc/X11/xorg.conf

 	Michael Young