When will Fedora work again?

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 08:33:51PM +0530, Deependra Singh Shekhawat wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Leon Stringer <leon.stringer at ntlworld.com>
> wrote:
....
> 
>     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).
> 
> 
> Intel 845 sounds very oldish chipset. Must be upgraded to support latest
> distributions.

Not really; and besides this is rather hard to do if this is a
laptop with an integrated video which is very often the case with
these chipsets.  In any case this is a piece of Xorg.0.log from a
laptop with F10 installed on it (it required also in a boot command
'clocksource=jiffies' before that started to work):

.....
(==) intel(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(**) intel(0): Option "NoAccel"
(II) intel(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) 845G
(--) intel(0): Chipset: "845G"
.....

The driver in question claims the following support:

(II) intel: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810,
        i810-dc100, i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM/855GM, 865G, 915G,
        E7221 (i915), 915GM, 945G, 945GM, 945GME, 965G, G35, 965Q, 946GZ,
        965GM, 965GME/GLE, G33, Q35, Q33,
        Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset,
        Intel Integrated Graphics Device, G45/G43, Q45/Q43, G41

so if it does not then this is a bug.  Unfortunately it is not hard
to find those for that driver in bugzilla.

>     My question is, what now?

Now it is a time to read 'man intel'.  It definitely would be nicer
if that would work straight "out-of-the-box" but if it does not ....

    Michal