[Intel-gfx] Intel QM57/QS57 NB Gfx - Intel UMA HD Discrete supported ?

[Andreas Steffan]

Hi Chris,

thanks for the quick response.

Doing some research, I got a little further:

Their offering an Intel Core i7-640M based system. This processor
includes

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator HD Graphics aka GMA HD aka Intel HD
Graphics (formerly known as GMA 5700 MHD) graphics card. :)

Unfortunately, looking at
http://intellinuxgraphics.org/documentation.html I'm still not quite
sure whether this is supported by the intel driver.

Any help still appreciated

best regards
Andreas

On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 10:50 +0000, Chris Wilson wrote: 
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:36:44 +0100, Andreas Steffan <a.steffan at contentreich.de> wrote:
> > Hallo everybody,
> > 
> > Dell is offering me a notebook with the following chipset:
> > 
> > Intel QM57/QS57 NB Gfx - Intel UMA HD
> > Discrete
> 
> If I understand the nomenclature (does anybody?), that chipset would only
> be used with discrete GPUs - there being no FDI link from the chip to
> drive any displays. (At least by applying the desktop naming scheme to the
> mobile world.)
> 
> On the other hand, our 2010Q4 release has solid support for SandyBridge
> including 2D, 3D and video (decode) acceleration. It will be some time
> before that is available from stable distributions, but there should be
> a repo for driver updates in the distro of your choice.
> -Chris
> 

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