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 > <[email protected]> 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 > -- Andreas Steffan Achter Billing 14 22399 Hamburg Germany skype: contentreich M: +49 1793903615 T: +49 40 23943542 F: +49 40 23943542 http://www.contentreich.de Contentreich : Alfresco WCM / ECM, JEE, Grails und Social Media _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
