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With kernel 4.6.0-rc1+ and the latest drm-intel sources from https://01.org/linuxgraphics the graphics card with skylake revision 0xa is supported and the skl_dmc and skl_guc firmware get loaded now: [ 1.184709] Setting dangerous option enable_guc_submission - tainting kernel [ 1.185811] [drm:intel_...

I have just downloaded and installed 4.5.0-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64. The graphics card is working now and it is possible to switch from X-desktop to console and back without any problems. Fantastic! Thank you very much! :D :D :D Now I can see, that firmware would be loaded, even though it fails: [ 0.9316...

Unfortunately a fresh installation of CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1602-99.iso (GNOME-Desktop) didn't improve anything with my Intel Skylake HD550 graphics card. Module i915 is loaded at startup, but it is not functional. Doing an "rmmod i915" and then "modprobe -v i915 preliminary_hw_support=1" will switch ...

Thanks!
I have downloaded CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1602-99.iso and will install it the next days.
However, I don't see any differences to my current installation with 3.10.0-327.10.1.el7.x86_64 right now.
Package linux-firmware-20150904-43.git6ebf5d5.el7.noarch.rpm is the same, too.

Hi, I'm having some issues with an Intel Skylake HD 550 graphics card in my new Acer Aspire V3-372 laptop. In the beginning installation of CentOS 7 failed: instead of the X desktop I only got a black screen. However, after putting "set gfxpayload=keep" into the grub.cfg everything works fine (excep...