[CentOS] 6.1 Update request

Fri Sep 23 01:26:48 UTC 2011
TE Dukes <tdukes at palmettoshopper.com>

 

> -----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.