Hi Guys! Happy Friday! Long time user/admin of Zorin - first time on the forums. I haven't been able to get Zorin to support the Alder Lake-N Intel Graphics that I have on some new mini-PCs. I was able to boot Ubuntu 24.04 on it and it supported it without issue. I worked with Zorin tech support on this for nearly 2 weeks - it got escalated to development and while they research the issue they recommend I reach out to you fine folks for suggestions.
Here's the info I gathered from the machine running Zorin-17.2:
it-admin@Zorin-20:~$ uname -a
Linux Zorin-20 6.5.0-45-generic #45~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon Jul 15 16:40:02 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
it-admin@Zorin-20:~$ sudo lshw -C video
[sudo] password for it-admin:
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Intel Corporation
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: iomemory:600-5ff iomemory:400-3ff memory:6000000000-6000ffffff memory:4000000000-400fffffff ioport:5000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff memory:4010000000-4016ffffff memory:4020000000-40ffffffff
*-graphics
product: EFI VGA
physical id: 4
logical name: /dev/fb0
capabilities: fb
configuration: depth=32 resolution=800,600
it-admin@Zorin-20:~$ inxi
CPU: quad core Intel N150 (-MCP-) speed/min/max: 1044/700/3600 MHz
Kernel: 6.5.0-45-generic x86_64 Up: 2d 16h 6m Mem: 3090.8/7710.6 MiB (40.1%)
Storage: 256.87 GiB (6.2% used) Procs: 295 Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.13
it-admin@Zorin-20:~$ inxi -G
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel driver: N/A
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: vesa
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting gpu: N/A resolution: 800x600~75Hz
OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.7 256 bits)
v: 4.5 Mesa 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.3
If I look for this same information from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - Live here's what I get:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 6.11.0-17-generic #17~24.04.2-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon Jan 20 22:48:29 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo lshw -C video
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Alder Lake-N [Intel Graphics]
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
logical name: /dev/fb0
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom fb
configuration: depth=32 driver=i915 latency=0 mode=1600x900 resolution=1600,900 visual=truecolor xres=1600 yres=900
resources: iomemory:600-5ff iomemory:400-3ff irq:132 memory:6000000000-6000ffffff memory:4000000000-400fffffff ioport:5000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff memory:4010000000-4016ffffff memory:4020000000-40ffffffff
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ inxi
CPU: quad core Intel N150 (-MCP-) speed/min/max: 715/700/3600 MHz
Kernel: 6.11.0-17-generic x86_64 Up: 11m Mem: 2.89/7.54 GiB (38.3%)
Storage: 249.72 GiB (0.0% used) Procs: 258 Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.34
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ inxi -G
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-N [Intel Graphics] driver: i915 v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915
resolution: 1600x900~75Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: iris,swrast platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa
v: 24.2.8-1ubuntu1~24.04.1 renderer: Mesa Intel Graphics (ADL-N)
What do you recommend?
Thanks in advance!