Which kernel support the Intel 965 chipset?

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Tue Feb 6 12:53:34 PST 2007


On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 05:58:41PM +0000, Barry Scott wrote:

<not really a xorg question but..>

 > I've been given a HP 7700 PC to test Intel 965 chipset out on but cannot 
 > get FC6 to install.
 > It hangs a short way into the kernel startup after a few messages are ACPI.
 
chances are it's hanging on pci config, I saw this happen on a number
of 965's. Booting with pci=nommconf might help.

 > I suspect that FC6 does not have a new enough kernel or that there are 
 > special kernel
 > parameters needed to boot on this box.

The 2.6.19 update should work without the need for the parameters
once you have it installed & updated.

		Dave

-- 
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk



More information about the xorg mailing list