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

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> Yasha Karant