When will Fedora work again?

[Leon Stringer]

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 14:48:56 +0000,
>   Leon Stringer <leon.stringer at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> F10 didn't work on my hardware. It looks like F11 won't either. In fact  
>> F9 only worked when I turned RHGB off.
>>
>> This is due to a problem with X and support for my (fairly standard)  
>> video hardware (Intel D845GERG2 on-board controller,  
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470371).
>>
>> My question is, what now?
> 
> See if either of the bugs below cover your problem:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459437
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470371

Bruno: Thanks but I reported both of these!!!

#470371 already includes the Xorg.0.log and lspci output.

If I'm feeling bored I'll try to pull down and update F11A and try again 
later tonight (if I can work out how to get the Wi-Fi card going in text 
mode).


> If so add yourself as a cc and add any useful information you have.
> If not open a new bug. If possible boot to run level 3 and grab the
> Xorg.0.log file from one of the failed tries. You probably want to
> include some information on your hardware. If you have a smolt profile
> you can point to that, otherwise lspci -v output is usually good
> enough.
> 
> A lot of changes are going on for intel video hardware right now in rawhide.
> So whether or not things work may change from kernel to kernel. I don't
> know whether or not your particular device is targetted to work for F11,
> but the developers do want to get kernel modesetting for intel working.
> See the F11 feature page for Intel KMS:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/IntelKMS
>