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Intel's Linux Sandy Bridge Graphics Still Troubling
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| Tue, Jan 25 2011 | 9:03AM | Filed under: Chipset| PermaLink |
Posted by: STAFF
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"When Intel launched their newest "Sandy Bridge" processors
earlier this month there were no Linux benchmark results available. We
were not seeded with any CPU in advance and the other publications that
have flings with Linux were unable to get the Linux graphics support
working. There is no "out of the box" Sandy Bridge support under Linux
with Ubuntu 10.10 and other distributions released in the past few
months. It was not until the time that Sandy Bridge launched that there
was the releases of Linux 2.6.37, Mesa 7.10, and the xf86-video-intel
2.14 DDX that are the versions reported to play well with the new Intel
graphics. Because of the lack of "out of the box" Linux support, there
was a very scathing review at SemiAccurate.com that went as far as
calling Sandy Bridge the biggest disappointment of the year. The code
was said to be ready, but there is a challenge in installing open-source
GPU drivers by many Linux users."
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