Intel Sandy Bridge with Ubuntu

[medevacs]

10.04 seems to be working other than...)

Can someone please sum up where are we with 11.04 then? I am considering buying i3-2100T probably with Intel boxdh67cfb3 and will be using integrated GPU. I have read whole this thread (and many others) but I am confused if I should give it a go or should I wait for AMD Llano or look for other solution.

[movieman]

Can someone please sum up where are we with 11.04 then?

As I said, I couldn't even boot the LiveCD for 11.04; it hung when trying to start the GUI (presumably Unity?).

[ian dobson]

It's Asrock, which I believe is the cheap subsidiary of Asus? I installed that driver and now I'm seeing something though it's not clear which value is which . Thanks.

nct6776-isa-0290
Adapter: ISA adapter
in0: +1.06 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +1.74 V)
in1: +1.89 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V) ALARM

Which Asrock model is it exactly, google for lm-sensors and the modle number maybe some else has got the correct sensors3.conf file for it.

Regards
Ian Dobson

[chkeller]

As I said, I couldn't even boot the LiveCD for 11.04; it hung when trying to start the GUI (presumably Unity?).

Booting with Live-CD with NOMODESET worked with my installation: ASUS P8H67-M PRO / Intel i3-2150 (using iGPU).
Ch.Keller

[tlu]

I have an Intel i7-2600, and I've added the xorg-edgers ppa to my repos.

Now when I start Googleearth (regardless if version 5 or 6), it crashes and I get a lot of error messages on the console:
...

Now after some updates in the ppa glxinfo doesn't produce any error messages anymore:

glxinfo
name of display: :0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, 
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, 
    GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, 
    GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, 
    GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_INTEL_swap_event
client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, 
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB, 
    GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, 
    GLX_MESA_swap_control, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_OML_sync_control, 
    GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync, 
    GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, 
    GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, 
    GLX_INTEL_swap_event
GLX version: 1.4
GLX extensions:
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, 
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, 
    GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_MESA_swap_control, 
    GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, 
    GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGIS_multisample, 
    GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, 
    GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_INTEL_swap_event
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Sandybridge Desktop 
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.12-devel
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
OpenGL extensions:
...

but Googleearth gives the following error:

./googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Anybody aware of a solution?

[asrock-z68]

Booting with Live-CD with NOMODESET worked with my installation: ASUS P8H67-M PRO / Intel i3-2150 (using iGPU).
Ch.Keller

Booting with Live-CD (USB stick) with NOMODESET (for both run & install) does NOT work with my setup. Still locks up at splash screen. 10.10 installs and seems to run fine. 11.04 server installed and seems to run fine but does have problems booting occasionally.

ASRock Z68 Pro3-M
Intel i7 2600k (using iGPU)

Correction: I was able to get the USB stick to boot with the "nomodeset" kernel parameter. Was able to install and as long as I use "nomodeset" in grub I can boot from the hard disk. I implemented this fix (without nomodeset in grub) and seem to be running stable so far with Unity. I don't know how to modify a driver without rebuilding the kernel, so that's what I did. Firefox 5.0 is painfully slow. FTP and other networking (apache2, samba, etc.) seem fine. Not sure what the problem with Firefox is or if it related.

Update: Updating to the latest version of firmware (1.40) seems to have solved this problem for me. I can now boot and install from a 11.04 LiveCD (USB). According to another member (exobuzz), the new firmware changes the default voltage to the iGPU.

[ubuforty]

Hi people,

I've been following this thread for a little while as I was going to build a new Sandy Bridge machine. Eventually, I bought a D*ll Vostro 260 st ready-made desktop. It has an i3-2100, 3 gigs RAM.

I shoved in a Natty 64 bit CD, and up it all came. 11.04 - 64bit seems to have no issues with the machine at all, using the embedded Intel graphics or now with an Nvidia Gt430. The machine crunches BOINC numbers all day and all night and is rock solid, out of the box. I don't work for Dell by the way, but was a little worried when Google produced this thread. I also have a Dell lappy with an i5-M520 in it, (prev. gen?) same thing, no problems at all.

Unity worked on both machines, but I went back to the 'classic' panels.
regards

Sue (UK)

[medevacs]

I have finally built a computer with Sandy Bridge and Xubuntu 11.04 64 bit and have no major issues with it. See my topic here

[ceejay]

At the risk of dragging the conversation back several pages, I have a problem which this thread was discussing a while back - getting sensors to work with an Asus P8H67-M PRO board. Pentium G620 CPU.

I have 11.04 Ubuntu and therefore kernel 2.6.38.

Sensors-detect only added "coretemp". After reading this thread I added "pkgtemp" which added one more temperature.

I tried "modprobe w83627ehf" but got the error "No such device" (though the driver file is present).

Sensors for me is therefore just giving 3 temperature readings - Core 0, Core 1, "physical id 0".

Can anyone help me move forward, please? I desperately need to get fan info so I can use pwmfancontrol to take control of my htpc!

TIA

[ceejay]

making progress ... "modprobe w83627ehf force_id=0x8860" was one step forward, the other was adding "acpi_enforce_resources=lax" ... though I am puzzled as to why adding it to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub didn't work, I had to add it explicitly to the end of the "linux" line in /etc/grub.d/40_custom.

I've also grabbed a sensors3.conf file from earlier in this thread. So now my sensors3 looks like this:

chip "w83627ehf-*" "w83627dhg-*" "w83667hg-*" "nct6775-*" "nct6776-*"
  label temp1 "Sys Temp"
  set temp1_max 35
  set temp1_max_hyst 37
 
  ignore temp2
 
  ignore temp3
 
  label fan1 "Chassis Fan 1"
  set fan1_min    500
 
  label fan2 "CPU Fan"
  set fan2_min    500
 
  label fan3 "Chassis Fan 2"
  set fan3_min    500
 
  ignore fan4
 
  ignore fan5
 
  label in0  "CPU voltage"
  set in0_min 0.95
  set in0_max 1.2

  label in1 "+12V"
  compute in1 @ * 12, @ / 12
  set in1_min 12 * 0.90
  set in1_max 12 * 1.15

  label in2  "AVCC"
  set in2_min 3.2
  set in2_max 3.5
 
  label in3  "3VCC"
  set in3_min 3.2
  set in3_max 3.5

  label in4 "+5V"
  compute in4 @ * 5, @ / 5
  set in4_min 5 * 0.90
  set in4_max 5 * 1.10

  ignore in5
  ignore in6
 
  label in7  "3VSB"
  set in7_min 3.2
  set in7_max 3.5
 
  ignore in8
 
  set in8_min 3.2
  set in7_max 3.5
 
  ignore in8
 
  set in8_min 3.2
  set in8_max 3.5

and the output of sensors looks like this

coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0:      +31.0°C  (high = +82.0°C, crit = +102.0°C)  

coretemp-isa-0001
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 1:      +36.0°C  (high = +82.0°C, crit = +102.0°C)  

pkgtemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
physical id 0: +36.0°C  (high = +82.0°C, crit = +102.0°C)  

w83627ehf-isa-0290
Adapter: ISA adapter
CPU voltage:   +0.84 V  (min =  +0.95 V, max =  +1.20 V)   ALARM
+12V:         +12.10 V  (min = +10.85 V, max = +13.82 V)   
AVCC:          +3.41 V  (min =  +3.20 V, max =  +3.50 V)   
3VCC:          +3.39 V  (min =  +3.20 V, max =  +3.50 V)   
+5V:           +4.96 V  (min =  +4.52 V, max =  +5.52 V)   
3VSB:          +3.39 V  (min =  +3.20 V, max =  +3.50 V)   
in9:           +1.54 V  (min =  +2.04 V, max =  +2.04 V)   
Chassis Fan 1:   0 RPM  (min =    0 RPM, div = 16)  ALARM
CPU Fan:         0 RPM  (min =    0 RPM, div = 16)  ALARM
Chassis Fan 2:   0 RPM  (min =    0 RPM, div = 16)  ALARM
Sys Temp:      +28.0°C  (high = +35.0°C, hyst = +37.0°C)  sensor = thermistor

I am puzzled that although I apparently have exactly the same board as Hammi (P8H67-M PRO), we seem to have different chips?

But, more importantly, why are my fan speeds showing as 0 when my ears tell me they are definitely not?! I have turned off Q-Fan in the bios.