Sandy Bridge

[William Park]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 01:23:44AM -0400, Glen Strom wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 05:03:19 +0100
> Slack Rat <torfree-GANU6spQydw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone now whether any slackware distributions have support for
> > the Intel Sandy Bridge Integrated Graphics controller
> > 
> > I just purchased an Acer Aspire V5-5 computer which is equipped with
> > that chipset.
> > 
> > Linux, apart from X, works perfectly but it is impossible to startx
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> 
> According to what I've read, Slackware 14 has gcc-4.7.1, which
> supports Sandy Bridge. Slack 14 is at RC4 and should be out within a
> few weeks.

Isn't this driver/hardware issue in OP's Acer laptop, rather than
compiler issue?
-- 
William
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