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

[Andreas Steffan]

Hallo Christoph,

thanks for warning me now (I was just about to give Dell my credit card
number ;).

In fact, I was expecting a vanilla fedora 14 to be working without
trouble (I don't consider compiling and installing xorg userland code
serious trouble). Tracking/Compiling/Installing kernel sources surely is
effort I'd like to avoid.

I would appreciate if you could point me to resources dealing with the
"trouble" you mention.

BTW: They are offering a Latitude E6510 w/ i7-640M

best regards
Andreas

On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 13:58 +0100, Christoph Lukas wrote: 
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> > 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. :)
> 
> I am running a Dell Latitude E6410 with those specs.
> Using a kernel built from the drm-intel-next branch the system works
> almost flawlessly. 
> 
> Internal / external display, suspend / resume works.
> 
> But this is only true for the drm-intel-next based kernel. Older ones up
> to 2.6.37 booted and resumed to a blank screen with this hardware.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Christoph
> 
> 

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