[CentOS] Intel HD graphics & CentOS 6: Error inserting i915

[Timo Neuvonen]

"Pasi Kärkkäinen" <pasik at iki.fi> kirjoitti viestissä 
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> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 12:29:59PM +0200, Marc Deop wrote:
>> On Saturday 30 July 2011 16:40:45 Timo Neuvonen wrote:
>> > (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
>> > FATAL: Error inserting i915
>> > (/lib/modules/2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko):
>> > No such device
>> > (EE) No devices detected.
>>
>> You need at least a 2.6.38 kernel.
>>
>> From: http://intellinuxgraphics.org/2011Q1.html
>>
>
> And in case of CentOS it means Redhat needs to backport the driver to el6 
> 2.6.32 kernel.

I admit that my secret dream is that RH already would have done that for 
RHEL 6.1 kernels, otherwise it will take rather long time. AFAIK, they 
backport things like that only for new minor versions, so if it's not in 6.1 
in the beginning, it won't be there before 6.2?

As a quick workaround I set up a dirty bomb: installed 2.6.38 from Fedora 15 
updates repo -so far it seems to work, and I wanted to have a very 
CentOS-like system for testing certain things in a portable hardware (easy 
to carry my virtual test machine farm to home in the evening). This is just 
a preliminary tester, not a production system, so it won't be a big problem 
if it crashes some day.

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TiN