On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 12:42 +0000, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 09:34 +0000, Thomas Oldbury wrote: > > I'll have to figure out how to do that. It does has 4 GB system memory > > though, don't know how much video RAM it will allocate. > > With anything reasonably recent, it will allocate what it needs - the > memory pool is completely shared. With Ubuntu 10.10, you should be fine. > I do run a later kernel with mine though (the one from Natty) - as it > has better support for these chips. > > What video chip do you have? It may be that it is a new enough chip that > you need to get a more recent kernel and/or video driver. Answering my own question - it seems it will be an Ironlake die in an "Arrandale" series chipset. Fairly new, but it isn't a Sandy-bridge, which might still have some issues with the drivers. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me)
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