There are no naive questions, but unfortunately a lot of elitist answers. The sandy bridge video adapters are denoted gt1 gt2 and gt2+ and the cpus i5 and i7
Check your pcidump to see if you have a non Intel adapter present, its quite rare to have Intel integrated graphics and a secondary adapter in a laptop. I believe only the sandybridge-e models are produced without graphics. If you provide a dmesg to this list and I'm sure people can identify your chipset for you. On Apr 28, 2012 6:52 PM, "patrick keshishian" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 2:48 AM, Rod Whitworth <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:28:02 +0100, Laurence Rochfort wrote: > > > >>I have a Sandybridge chipset and am glad to say that with the arrival > >>of my 5.1 CDs I now have the correct X resolution. > >> > >>However, I cannot switch from X to console or shutdown from X, both > >>just give a blank screen. I can reboot from X and shutdown if booted > >>to console however. > >> > >>I understand the X to console problem is known, but have not seen > >>reports of the poweroff from X problems. > >> > >>Any advice as to how to diagnose/resolve? > > > > RTFA > > > > Oh, alright I won't make you beg. > > Search for "Lenovo E320: strange things happen with X" > > > > There is a patch somewhere in the thread that doesn't fix everything > > (IIRC) but it works well enough for me when I compiled the patched file > > and redid Xenocara. > > Here is a naive question: How does one determine whether or not a > system is/has Sandybridge? I ask, cause I have a lenovo x120e that has > similar issues to what is reported here with Sandybridge; specifically > switching from X to console and back. > > --patrick
