> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Alexandru Chiscan > Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 6:13 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] 6.1 Update request > > Hello all > > I had the same problems with centos 6.0 and a SandyBridge > laptop (Dell Latitude E5420 i5 2410M) > > On 09/19/2011 12:24 PM, John Hodrien wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, Timo Neuvonen wrote: > > > >> I simply installed CentOS 6.0, downloaded kernel from > SL6.1 repo, and > >> installed it. Basically this is what was needed to make Intel > >> graphics work, I think there were 1-2 other rpms I needed > to upgrade > >> too to fix dependencies, but this was easy to notice > during the kernel install. > > If you don't mind passing on some details for me, as I've got a > > related problem. > you have to install the following from SL 6.1: > - latest kernel (kernel-2.6.32-131.12.1.el6) > - kernel-firmware-2.6.32-131.12.1.el6 > - latest xorg-x11-drv-intel (xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.14.0-1) > with dependencies (xorg-x11-drivers) > - latest mesa packages: mesa-dri-drivers, mesa-libGL, > mesa-libGLU (version 7.10-1 at the moment) > - latest libdrm (libdrm-2.4.23-1) Just got everything re-installed/updated. Had a change in ISPs. Was able to install the kernel and firmware packages as done previously but got in the 'dependency' loop with the xorg* files so I left it alone.