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From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
To: "Carlson, Benjamin P." <bpcarlson@ou.edu>,
	"intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org"
	<intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: Intel graphics drivers for Linux
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 10:40:04 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zj4yjs4r.fsf@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0FE5B59AAA402C40A6C7DDC484D1C290D2135A06@it-kodiak.sooner.net.ou.edu>

On Wed, 20 May 2015, "Carlson, Benjamin P." <bpcarlson@ou.edu> wrote:
> I have GIGABYTE motherboard with an integrated Intel display interface
> (Intel G33/31 Express Chipset, chiptype: Intel GMA 3100) and have
> never been able to get it to work properly with Linux (my system is
> dual boot and MS Windows has always identified it and loaded drivers
> just fine).

What does "properly" mean for you? Do you get some (broken) graphics, or
nothing at all? What display do you have? Please be more specific.

> I am running CentOS 6.6, kernal 2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.x86_64 I have
> downloaded the file: xf86-video-intel-2.14.0.tar from your web site
> but I do not know if this is the file I need or how to install it. I
> am not updating my Linux as I use it for PhD research in CS at OU and
> it works fine as is (other than the graphics problems, of course). Can
> you help? Thanks

Please try some fresh distro installer or live media on USB/CD; no need
to actually install anything, just see if graphics work there.

BR,
Jani.


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  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-21  7:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-20 17:01 Intel graphics drivers for Linux Carlson, Benjamin P.
2015-05-21  7:40 ` Jani Nikula [this message]
     [not found]   ` <0FE5B59AAA402C40A6C7DDC484D1C290D2135A55@it-kodiak.sooner.net.ou.edu>
2015-05-22  4:49     ` Jani Nikula

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