[CentOS] Intel Xorg driver for Intel HD graphics

[Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane]

I have an older intel card (845G) that works _correctly_ only with the newer kernels (3.17+) with everything else being CentOS 6 stock.
The elrepo kernel-ml made this much easier to support.
http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml
http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-lt
I don't know if you need all the other new packages you built and installed, but at least you will not have to be compiling the kernel for yourself if you use the elrepo packages. 
Note: although I am using the el6 packages, they have el7 packages.
http://elrepo.org/linux/kernel/el7/x86_64/RPMS/

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Geis [mailto:geisj at pagestation.com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2016 10:20 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Intel Xorg driver for Intel HD graphics
> 
> > i915.preliminary_hw_support=1
> 
> Adding this to the boot - does not make it work on straight 7.2
> 
> I saw information about this - but it is mentioned on the page I
> included that this was no longer needed with the files listed in the
> link.
> 
> 
> The kernel 4.4 installs and runs fine on the NUC5C. Its the
> xorg-server package that is is my issue. Everything else ran fine.
> 
> 
> The problem I'm trying to solve is getting the NUC 5C to run X on 7.2.
> 
> I "realize" that is all newer hardware - but if its possible it's beneficial.
> 
> 
> I just need to figure out how to compile the X server it was giving an error.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Jerry