[PLUG] Getting Intel-patched Kernel

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Sun Nov 14 00:50:10 UTC 2010


>>>>> "Rich" == Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> writes:

Rich>    This is turning into a rather unpleasant experience. My new
Rich> Dell Latitude E5410 apparently has the video built into the CPU
Rich> or another of the Intel chips in the entire set. It will not
Rich> boot the 2.6.33.4 or 2.6.35.7 kernels without appending
Rich> "nomodeset". Well, they boot, but the screen blanks and nothing
Rich> can be seen on it. The gotcha' is that with no mode set X cannot
Rich> start. Checkmate.

Rich>    I understand that Intel has kernel patches (or patched
Rich> kernels) that fix this problem. Does anyone know how I can get
Rich> this quickly fixed so I can take this computer on a business
Rich> trip this coming week?

Complain to your distribution vendor?  I recently (about a month or
two ago?) had a similar problem briefly with Ubuntu, I think, but it
was fixed almost right away.


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Russell Senior, President
russell at personaltelco.net



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