I installed the latest distro of Fedora 12. On this little Compaq C700, it SCREAMS. However I've had 3 issues. I'll post the first issue here, and the other 2 in another post.

The F12 CD installed normally: no errors showed during installation. I also did a 'yum update' which installed more than 900 patches and updates.

The Compaq C700 has the Intel X3100 graphics driver. The installation did not detect this, and did not create an xorg.conf file. Therefore the laptop screen has defaulted to 800x600 and is nearly unusable at that resolution. The [Detect Monitors] button on the gnome-display-properties utility does not work.

I googled a bug report for F11 and this Intel device: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516759
And this was on a Compaq 610--a similar machine to mine. The person reporting the bug reports symptoms identical to mine.

1) Is there any repositories, patches or upgrades I can install to make this work?
2) Do I need to file a bug report also?
3) Can anyone point me to some resources to fix?


I really don't want to install Windows on this machine. I want Fedora 12 to work.

Thanks in advance and Happy New Year 2010 to one and all.

Follow-up
Here is the output of smolt (filtered through grep -v "None" to eliminate uninteresting lines):
General
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UUID: e1e708e3-6aa7-466d-b196-05f6510ad279
OS: Fedora release 12 (Constantine)
Default run level: 5
Language: en_US.UTF-8
Platform: x86_64
BogoMIPS: 2926.14
CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Model: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T2310 @ 1.46GHz
CPU Stepping: 13
CPU Family: 6
CPU Model Num: 15
Number of CPUs: 2
CPU Speed: 1467
System Memory: 2001
System Swap: 4031
Vendor: Hewlett-Packard
System: Presario C700 Notebook PC F.08
Form factor: laptop
Kernel: 2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64
SELinux Enabled: 1
SELinux Policy: targeted
SELinux Enforce: Enforcing


Devices
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(32902:10281:4156:12505) pci, ahci, OTHER, 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller
(5348:17169:4156:4980) pci, wl, NETWORK, BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
(32902:10261:4156:12505) pci, Unknown, OTHER, 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller
(32902:9288:0:0) pci, Unknown, OTHER, 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
(4332:33081:4156:12505) pci, 8139too, NETWORK, RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
(32902:10315:4156:12505) pci, HDA Intel, AUDIO, 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
(32902:10320:4156:12505) pci, ata_piix, IDE, 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller
(32902:10754:4156:12505) pci, i915, VIDEO, Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller
(32902:10755:4156:12505) pci, Unknown, VIDEO, Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller
(32902:10752:4156:12505) pci, agpgart-intel, OTHER, Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub
(32902:10303:0:0) pci, pcieport-driver, OTHER, 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1
(32902:10302:4156:12505) pci, i801_smbus, OTHER, 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller
(32902:10754:4156:12505) pci, i915, VIDEO, Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller
(32902:10755:4156:12505) pci, Unknown, VIDEO, Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller
(32902:10752:4156:12505) pci, agpgart-intel, OTHER, Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub
(32902:10303:0:0) pci, pcieport-driver, OTHER, 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1
(32902:10302:4156:12505) pci, i801_smbus, OTHER, 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller
(32902:10294:4156:12505) pci, ehci_hcd, USB, 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
(32902:10290:4156:12505) pci, uhci_hcd, USB, 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
(32902:10288:4156:12505) pci, uhci_hcd, USB, 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
(32902:10289:4156:12505) pci, uhci_hcd, USB, 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2


Filesystem Information
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device mtpt type bsize frsize blocks bfree bavail file ffree favail
-------------------------------------------------------------------
/dev/pts WITHHELD devpts 4096 4096 0 0 0 0 0 0
/dev/shm WITHHELD tmpfs 4096 4096 256149 256127 256127 256149 256146 256146
/dev/mapper/vg_dingdong-lv_root / ext4 4096 4096 18163530 17294928 16372253 4620288 4509636 4509636
/dev/sda1 /boot ext4 1024 1024 198337 158859 148619 51200 51160 51160

Try the following:

su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing xorg-x11-drv-intel'