intel hd 3000 chipset

[markdueck]

Hi everyone.

I have a brand new Dell E5520 laptop with the Intel HD3000 (sandy-bridge) chipset. I bought an extra hard drive for linux, but I'm getting terrible results. So far the only usable distro I've found is Kubuntu 11.04.

I've given some more details here: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/g...ude-e5520.html

I have now tried Fedora 15 with a second burn, and made sure the checksum on the iso was good, but I still cant get a into the installer. It crashes at different stages of boot each time.

I have tried the memtest, and found out that even that does not work. Can this be another issue instead of the Sandy-Bridge chipset?

Mark

[CSchwangler]

Provided the Kubuntu CD works, can you run memtest from that CD?

[rav1084]

I have the same video card on a new HP g6. I'm new to Fedora (16), I switched because it was the only distro that would actually work on the laptop, I had to run it with 'acpi=off' for the screen to look good, but then the battery management dies.
Running it with 'nomodeset' makes the laptop usable, but the resolution of the screen is all messed up. In my old laptop, you would install the driver at this point and everything would work, but I can't seem to find a driver for this card and it somehow clashes with acpi.

Any ideas?

EDIT:
It is now working, by using the boot option 'pci=noacpi'. Thanks to fenris02 at the #fedora channel in freenode for pointing me in the right direction.