[Mageia-discuss] Mageia 1 and Intel Sandy Bridge?

Shlomi Fish shlomif at shlomifish.org
Mon Oct 3 20:05:32 CEST 2011


Hi Antoine,

On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 19:50:04 +0200
Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am considering buying an Intel Sandy Bridge-based laptop (a Lenovo
> X121e) and I am wondering whether Mageia 1 (not Cauldron) works ok with
> it, especially the integrated GPU. The CPU+GPU is apparently a Core
> i3-2357M. Does anyone have any feedback?
> 

I got Mageia 1 to work on a Core i3 machine with the Intel Graphics card. I had
some issues after installation and I still boot with the linux-nonfb option,
but everything works fine. I've now upgraded to Mageia Cauldron.

It's a desktop machine - not a laptop.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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