On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 07:57:41PM +0000, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2011-06-10, Lennart Sorensen <lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > >> what can i do to install debian on this laptop? > > Wait a while. Anything with Sandy Bridge built in graphics is a > > nightmare under linux at this time. Debian unstable MIGHT be able to > > get it going, but testing almost certainly can't yet. No change at all > > with stable. This will be true with probably all linux distributions > > at this time. > > Oh wheezy works perfect. At least with 2.6.39 from sid (but > xserver-xorg-video-intel from wheezy).
OK, so the 2.6.39 helps? Funny given the upstream 2.6.39 plain supposedly is a complete disaster for Sandy Bridge. Of course the problem was known so a patch may simply have already been included. I will suggest to my coworker to update his kernel then to see if that gets rid of the last few occational glitches. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110613144101.gy21...@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
