On 09/11/2011 10:04 PM, Kevin Thomas wrote:
> I forgot to answer your question as to which intel driver is being 
> loaded.  I ran lspci and grepped for intel and the result is below.  
> It's a very vague "vga" reference, but according to Intel, the core i7 
> processor has integrated Intel HD 3000 graphics, if that helps at all.
>>

I'm certainly no expert with hybrid graphics; but perhaps you'll need a 
more bleeding edge distro for bleeding edge hardware?  Perhaps download 
an ubuntu 11.11 beta or fedora 16 beta live dvd and see if it can boot 
cleanly?  Just a thought...

Chris