I've got a laptop with Sandy Bridge + Hybrid Graphics and I want to use linux in it. I've tried fedora 15 with no luck (the Radeon not detected but always on and runs with max performance, introducing heat problems).

I've tried the open source radeon driver, the proprietary driver, and in fedora, it just didn't work. Everytime I installed a radeon driver, I can't boot anymore (and have to uninstall it from terminal). The Intel video only works with VESA mode, and I can't get a decent performance with it. Even then, there's still the heat problem that basically make the laptop unusable for more than 15 minutes.

So now I'm looking for another distro. Does ubuntu support this configuration yet? (I don't want to download another distro and find that it doesn't works with my configuration.

I'm aware of this question, but it's been three months. Are there any improvement since? I've also search a solution a lot, but currently can't find anything.

Here's the full specification of the laptop (HP Pavillion g4-1004tx):

• 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5-2410M


• 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3


• AMD Radeon HD 6470M (1 GB DDR3) / Intel HD Graphics 3000 (Shared Memory)


• 500 GB SATA (5400 rpm)


• LightScribe SuperMulti DVD±R/RW with Double Layer Support


• Altec Lansing speakers - SRS Premium Sound


• Broadcom 4313 802.11b/g/n Bluetooth WiFi (HW ID: PCIVEN_14E4&DEV_4727&SUBSYS_1483103C&REV_01)


• Integrated 10/100 BASE-T Ethernet LAN

UPDATE:

I've confirmed that it didn't work. It didn't even show the splash screen (the Ubuntu loading screen) after boot.

Setting nomodeset and acpi=off while booting shows the splash screen, which eventually gives error message basically like this:

Bad LUN...

Bad Target...

And finally, I confirmed it didn't work and find the same problem here. Maybe the next release will fix this.