Gnome3 {Intel Video} HP Pavilion DM4 1265dx

[nhpcguy]

Hey guys I spent the weekend fighting with this so I wanted to pass on how I got it fixed.

I am running Fedora 16 x86_64 edition on HP Pavilion dm4 1265dx.

Out of the box everything worked but i got an error that Gnome3 wouldn't run. I just couldn't live with that!

Here is what I did:
Set the BIOS to defaults, Changed boot Order to DVD, HDD and Enabled having to push fn + F1 - F12
yea im old school and love my fn buttons
After install boot the system
go to a terminal
touch /etc/X11/xorg.conf (I didnt have one)
yum install libva -y
my install didnt have this but the Intel site said I needed it [http://intellinuxgraphics.org/2011Q3.html
I created this xorg.conf by hand you can do the same or copy mine. Up to you

############################################
# xorg.conf for the HP Pavilion DM4 1265dx #
############################################
Section "InputClass" #this is for the touch pad, mine was funky with out this
Identifier "Touchpad"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
Driver "synaptics"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "intel" #tells it to use the intel driver!
VendorName "Intel"
#Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "IntelHDGraphics"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24

SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1366x768" "1024x768" #1366 is the dm4 native res. 1024 works but is very small
EndSubSection

EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection

#change the default grub settings
edit /etc/defauts/grub
remove nomodeset
add (at the end) acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor (make sure the close " mark is there)

#make a backup of the old file, case it screws up
cp /boot/grub2/grub.conf /boot/grub2/grub.conf.BAK

#build a new grub.conf
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub.conf

[nhpcguy]

UPDATE:
I tried to wipe my system, encrypt it and re-create the magic above.
It didnt work, go figure.

so

I did another clean install of the DVD media [kernel 3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64] then I installed:
libva-1.0.14-1.fc16.x86_64
libdrm-2.4.27-2.fc16.x86_64

Everything else was installed by default

Intel 2011Q3 graphics package
components
Kernel: Linux 3.0 release
3D driver: mesa 7.11 release
2D driver: xf86-video-intel 2.16.0 release
Libdrm: libdrm-2.4.26 release
Libva: libva-1.0.14 release
http://intellinuxgraphics.org/2011Q3.html

DID NOT create an xorg.conf this time

#change the default grub settings
edit /etc/defauts/grub
remove nomodeset
add (at the end) acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor (make sure the close " mark is there)

#make a backup of the old file, case it screws up
cp /boot/grub2/grub.conf /boot/grub2/grub.conf.BAK

#build a new grub.conf
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub.conf

---------- Post added at 10:15 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:29 AM ----------

I just updated and my changes seem to still work.
I am now using kernel 3.1.2-1.fc16.x86_64

[tmgeorgo]

Thank you so much for sharing the fix, I was having a hard time with this! I got a dm4-2191us and after grub loaded the video would only display through the external vga port. Once I added "acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor" to /etc/default/grub and made a new grub.cfg, the laptop display worked. Much appreciated!