Matthias Schroeder wrote:
> Hi Yasha,
>
> On 10/17/2011 03:37 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
>> After much searching, I found for my wife a laptop that we could afford
>> given that her Department had no funds to replace her stolen laptop, one
>> that does work under EL including the 802.11 WNIC. It is a Lenovo G570
>> that uses an Intel Integrated HD Graphics 3000 (SandyBridge)
>> graphics/video controller. The supplied display is 15.6” HD screen
>> (1366x768), 16:9 widescreen. The 1366x768 resolution is not one of the
>> choices, and I am not certain that the default VESA Xwindows driver has
>> this resolution. Thus, the display is not optimum.
>>
>> Does anyone either have experience with this unit (I did hunt on Linux
>> on Laptops) or with the correct Xwin driver for Intel Integrated HD
>> Graphics 3000 and/or the 1366x768 screen?
>
> The intel driver for the SandyBridge built-in graphics controller is 
> not compatible with the Sl5.7 kernel, so I don't think that SL5.X is 
> suitable for that hardware.
>
> I would expect SL6.1 to be ok though.
>
> Matthias
>
>>
>> Yasha Karant
Agreed, I did some testing on new hardware and found that even the VESA 
driver caused hardware lockup after a period of time.  TUV officially 
supports the chipset as of 6.1, no earlier.

-Mark

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