Another user reported steam not running after an update to Fedora 18 and his was crashing in the Intel drivers. It seems like the new drivers are not working properly.
Yeah it was me :-) After restart it was working properly, but I got this black screen. Is there anything I can test? Some kind of diagnostic that would show if drivers are compliant.
There are OpenGL conformance tests but I'm not sure they're generally available. A quick web search turned up http://cgit.freedesktop.org/piglit but I've never tried it.
Other than running apps/games directly, if you have them, I'm not sure there are good ways of knowing whether your driver works properly.
All right. Closing.
Just to let you know - Intel drivers in Fedora 18 are in very bad condition and many OpenGL apps are falling down randomly (SIGSEGV). Perhaps a bug in the driver that needs to be fixed. FYI
FYI Fedora 18 updated drivers and they are more stable now, but unfortunately it does not support features for TF2 I guess:
$ glxinfo | grep version
server glx version string: 1.4
client glx version string: 1.4
GLX version: 1.4
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 9.0.1
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
Nothing extracted yet.
Hello,
after upgrade to Fedora 18 on ThinkPad X201 - Intel HD 3000 - TF2 finally starts, but it is stuck in a loop or something. There are many messages on the stdout tho:
Screen is black, hl2_linux process is consuming about 10-20 % of CPU time.