[Solved] Ivy Bridge problem

[rebelxt]

I have just built a computer using one of Intel's new Ivy Bridge CPU's. It has an Asus P8Z77-M motherboard and the Core i5-3550 CPU. I would like to install Mint 12 64bit, but have run into a problem. The dvd perks along fine for a while. It shows the Welcome Screen where you select "Start Linux Mint". It never shows another valid screen. I've tried two terminals. A 1600x1200 DVI terminal just goes to black. A 1920x1080 HDMI terminal actually shows something, but it's one little rectangle tiled about a thousand times. Same results from both the Gnome-64bit and KDE-64bit downloads. I did validate the MD5 check sum.

An Ubuntu 12.04 amd64 live-disk boots correctly (sorry about that), as does a Mint 11 32bit live-disk.

This is the bleeding edge actually bleeding, huh?

Has anybody else run into this situation? Should a bug report be made? If so, where?

[melbo]

I had to wait a few months for the kernel to fully catch up to an i7 quad core Sandy Bridge. It really likes the latest 3.3.4 kernel and I'm afraid you may have to wait for the kernel to catch up to your hardware or run Arch or Fedora...

You may need to figure out some sort of alternate install so you can upgrade to 3.3.x or soon to be released 3.4.

I also had problems with some of the bios video settings.

[rebelxt]

FYI: both Mint 12 and Ubuntu 12.04 use the 3.3.4 kernel, and Ubuntu boots, while Mint doesn't

Ooops, this is all wrong. I misread the DistroWatch tables, which is hard to do, but I managed to do so.
Anyway, it looks like Mint 12 is at 3.0.x and Ubuntu 12.04 is at 3.2.x. (Thanks, Danko.)

[melbo]

Strange.

I haven't ever loaded 12, LMDE came with 3.2
I'm sure you've tried re-burning the iso.

[Danko8321]

FYI: both Mint 12 and Ubuntu 12.04 use the 3.3.4 kernel, and Ubuntu boots, while Mint doesn't

You see, right there is where your mistake is Ubuntu is in version 12.04 as you say, but Mint is based on the 11.10 version and, thus, has an older kernel (3.0012, I believe; forums say 3.0 but that's just unspecific). Linux Mint 13 (code-named "Maya") is soon to be released (just a few weeks more) and it *will* be based on Ubuntu 12.04 (thus, having the 3.34 kernel). Wait for that one and you will have no problem at all

[melbo]

I thought that 12 would have had an older kernel than LMDE UP4. Makes sense.