Re: debian-installer - HP ProBook 6560b
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 07:57:41PM +0000, Philipp Kern wrote:
> On 2011-06-10, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@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
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