Your hw falls into this line in http://intellinuxgraphics.org/documentation.html: HD Intel(r) HD Graphics (used in Intel(r) 2010 Core(tm) i7/i5/i3 processor family) The CPU codename is Arrandale. QM57/QS57 is the PCH (chipset) name. I guess "Discrete" mentioned in Dell offer means the notebook also includes (or supports) discrete gfx card (non-Intel).
Gordon > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Andreas Steffan > Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 7:57 PM > To: Chris Wilson > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] Intel QM57/QS57 NB Gfx - Intel UMA HD Discrete > supported ? > > Hi Chris, > > thanks for the quick response. > > Doing some research, I got a little further: > > Their offering an Intel Core i7-640M based system. This processor > includes > > Intel Graphics Media Accelerator HD Graphics aka GMA HD aka Intel HD > Graphics (formerly known as GMA 5700 MHD) graphics card. :) > > Unfortunately, looking at > http://intellinuxgraphics.org/documentation.html I'm still not quite > sure whether this is supported by the intel driver. > > Any help still appreciated > > best regards > Andreas > > On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 10:50 +0000, Chris Wilson wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:36:44 +0100, Andreas Steffan > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hallo everybody, > > > > > > Dell is offering me a notebook with the following chipset: > > > > > > Intel QM57/QS57 NB Gfx - Intel UMA HD > > > Discrete > > > > If I understand the nomenclature (does anybody?), that chipset would only > > be used with discrete GPUs - there being no FDI link from the chip to > > drive any displays. (At least by applying the desktop naming scheme to the > > mobile world.) > > > > On the other hand, our 2010Q4 release has solid support for SandyBridge > > including 2D, 3D and video (decode) acceleration. It will be some time > > before that is available from stable distributions, but there should be > > a repo for driver updates in the distro of your choice. > > -Chris > > > > -- > Andreas Steffan > > Achter Billing 14 > 22399 Hamburg > Germany > > skype: contentreich > M: +49 1793903615 > T: +49 40 23943542 > F: +49 40 23943542 > > http://www.contentreich.de > > Contentreich : Alfresco WCM / ECM, JEE, Grails und Social Media > > _______________________________________________ > Intel-gfx mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
