Guide to Get the Best Performace from the GMA 500

[thopiekar]

thanks ;)
the biggest part was interpreting and manipulating the /etc/default/grub file ;)

these python scripts are almost written in purest python.. I even haven't added any instuctions for the script options..
e.g. when typing:
emgd-sys-grubmod would print no instructions as other scripts..
all the code is just made to work :D

[thopiekar]

I'm sorry to say that, but the harddrive for / on my homepc got broken.. S.M.A.R.T. is told me that it has unreadable sectors which can't be recovered..
It will take some time until I'll get my netbook or my old 900Mhz computer working to make the packages..
When will be the release of Oneiric? we are already in beta, isn't it?

[lucazade]

I'm sorry to say that, but the harddrive for / on my homepc got broken.. S.M.A.R.T. is told me that it has unreadable sectors which can't be recovered..
It will take some time until I'll get my netbook or my old 900Mhz computer working to make the packages..
When will be the release of Oneiric? we are already in beta, isn't it?

what a pity.. hope you can salvage your data :/
oneiric will be released 13 october if i'm not wrong, yep we're still in beta1

[stuudent]

Hello!
I was trying to put psb-gfx driver. I just need decent 2d window/text drawing, and emgd is a bit slow for it.
So I tried to follow the tutorial on one of previous posts -> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10766450&postcount=3866 but no success (psb-gfx refuses to build).
I installed the newest kernel (3.1.0-0301rc4-generic), and psb-gfx seems to work. I have native resolution in terminal, module is loaded. The problem is that I can't get X working. I removed the xorg.conf file, but still it's trying to use emgd drivers. Here's the X log http://paste.ubuntu.com/690680/

Thank you for any help!

[thopiekar]

Hello!
I was trying to put psb-gfx driver. I just need decent 2d window/text drawing, and emgd is a bit slow for it.
So I tried to follow the tutorial on one of previous posts -> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10766450&postcount=3866 but no success (psb-gfx refuses to build).
I installed the newest kernel (3.1.0-0301rc4-generic), and psb-gfx seems to work. I have native resolution in terminal, module is loaded. The problem is that I can't get X working. I removed the xorg.conf file, but still it's trying to use emgd drivers. Here's the X log http://paste.ubuntu.com/690680/

Thank you for any help!

check all the xorg.conf's of your system!
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
and:
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/

emgd-xorg-conf for example creates a file in this folder!

[simplygades]

Hi everyone! Tried to install mplayer on Oneiric, and I got

@AO751h:~$ sudo apt-get install mplayer
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
mplayer : Depends: libx264-106 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.


The package installed now is libx264-116. Is it a matter of naming, or mplayer will have a problem now?

[lucazade]

Hi everyone! Tried to install mplayer on Oneiric, and I got

@AO751h:~$ sudo apt-get install mplayer
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
mplayer : Depends: libx264-106 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.


The package installed now is libx264-116. Is it a matter of naming, or mplayer will have a problem now?

yes, mplayer is no more installable.. it needs a rebuild.

how it work for you flashplayer in oneiric? mine is choppy at the moment.

[thopiekar]

Well I wanted to ask that too.. What about packaging the vaapi-enabled version of flashplayer? I know it was not working for some of us in the past but I could try it again.
Where can I download it?

[lucazade]

Well I wanted to ask that too.. What about packaging the vaapi-enabled version of flashplayer? I know it was not working for some of us in the past but I could try it again.
Where can I download it?

flashplayer with vaapi is inside emgd megapackage.. there is a doc and .so library
http://edc.intel.com/Software/Downloads/EMGD/#download

[lucazade]

about mplayer vaapi I've found a nice ppa for oneiric..
going to try and if good I'll copy in emgd-fix ppa

https://launchpad.net/~motumedia/+archive/mplayer-daily
This PPA contains daily builds of mplayer built from svn trunk.

Packages in this PPA are built against the latest version of libav taken from http://libav.org, and will not replace your system Libav/FFmpeg.

latest is build was 8 hours ago :)

[jbernardo]

about mplayer vaapi I've found a nice ppa for oneiric..
going to try and if good I'll copy in emgd-fix ppa

https://launchpad.net/~motumedia/+archive/mplayer-daily (https://launchpad.net/%7Emotumedia/+archive/mplayer-daily)
This PPA contains daily builds of mplayer built from svn trunk.

Packages in this PPA are built against the latest version of libav taken from http://libav.org, and will not replace your system Libav/FFmpeg.

latest is build was 8 hours ago :)

Thanks Luca! This one shows subtitles - seems like it doesn't use the vasubpicture call any more.

[simplygades]

yes, mplayer is no more installable.. it needs a rebuild.

how it work for you flashplayer in oneiric? mine is choppy at the moment.

Hi Luca!

360p-windowed=OK
480p-windowed=OK

360p-fullscreen=a slideshow :)

I think 360 and 480 FS were playable, but I'm not sure. I use Rekonq atm.
UPDATE Tried another video and up to 480 full is acceptable. Maybe sth was running in the background.

[simplygades]

about mplayer vaapi I've found a nice ppa for oneiric..
going to try and if good I'll copy in emgd-fix ppa

https://launchpad.net/~motumedia/+archive/mplayer-daily
This PPA contains daily builds of mplayer built from svn trunk.

Packages in this PPA are built against the latest version of libav taken from http://libav.org, and will not replace your system Libav/FFmpeg.

latest is build was 8 hours ago :)

I tried it with

mplayer -va vaapi -vo vaapi

and says:

Unknown option on the command line: -va


am I doing something wrong?

[jbernardo]

I tried it with

mplayer -va vaapi -vo vaapi

and says:

Unknown option on the command line: -va


am I doing something wrong?
I didn't notice that, as I have the options in ~/.mplayer/config. And now I've tried more complicated videos, things quickly get slow and out of sync with audio. Seems like that mplayer doesn't have vaapi support enabled.

[lucazade]

Hi Luca!

360p-windowed=OK
480p-windowed=OK

360p-fullscreen=a slideshow :)

I think 360 and 480 FS were playable, but I'm not sure. I use Rekonq atm.
UPDATE Tried another video and up to 480 full is acceptable. Maybe sth was running in the background.

this is how it worked for me in natty.. now in oneiric is quite tragic. choppy even in 240p windowed.. ugh! have to figure out what's wrong. thanks anyway for feedback, at least now I know is a issue with my installation.

[lucazade]

I didn't notice that, as I have the options in ~/.mplayer/config. And now I've tried more complicated videos, things quickly get slow and out of sync with audio. Seems like that mplayer doesn't have vaapi support enabled.

yes, my fault.
I've read in ppa description libav as libva.. lol.. i need a pair of glasses.
so, we need to find out a new mplayer with vaapi or build a new one.

[stuudent]

check all the xorg.conf's of your system!
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
and:
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/

emgd-xorg-conf for example creates a file in this folder!

Thanks' it helped

Now I have a problem -> it isn't running in native resolution - 1366x768.
Just everything is "not in order". How to set options iin xorg.conf?
here's the xorg log -> http://paste.ubuntu.com/691628/

[jbernardo]

yes, my fault.
I've read in ppa description libav as libva.. lol.. i need a pair of glasses.
so, we need to find out a new mplayer with vaapi or build a new one.

Too bad, as this was almost fast enough to play high res video without vaapi. Maybe gbeauchesne will release a updated version of his vaapi patches soon.

[simplygades]

.. now in oneiric is quite tragic...

That was fun to read!:D

Aren't regressions one of the most annoying things in computing?
(The Pulseaudio issue is finally fixed, however, did you notice?)

Are you using Unity-2d? I could try later and check if there is a problem there.

[lucazade]

That was fun to read!:D

Aren't regressions one of the most annoying things in computing?
(The Pulseaudio issue is finally fixed, however, did you notice?)

Are you using Unity-2d? I could try later and check if there is a problem there.

:) yes, regressions are not funny but it is part of the game.

I've to check if pulseaudio issue is still present, have you reinstalled pulseaudio to fix it or it was simply an update?

yep, i'm using unity-2d on all my machines, i'm not fond of compiz so unity-3d at the moment is not my choice..
if I had to choose another distro and DE I'd go with crunchbang (debian based + openbox).. it is really snappy and solid as a rock :)
emgd drivers come with a debian installer script out-of-the-box, it could be nice if working also on crunchbang.

[simplygades]

:) yes, regressions are not funny but it is part of the game.

I've to check if pulseaudio issue is still present, have you reinstalled pulseaudio to fix it or it was simply an update?

yep, i'm using unity-2d on all my machines, i'm not fond of compiz so unity-3d at the moment is not my choice..
if I had to choose another distro and DE I'd go with crunchbang (debian based + openbox).. it is really snappy and solid as a rock :)
emgd drivers come with a debian installer script out-of-the-box, it could be nice if working also on crunchbang.

I've been testing Kubuntu (much stabler than Ubuntu atm), mainly due to the PA issue, as in Kubuntu I can uninstall it without drama. I had PA completely removed, and I reinstalled it after someone commented on the bug report he had no problem with the latest version.

Ragarding distros and DE of choice, I have to say Crunchbang has been the most productive distro I've used. I was just focusing on my work and it was the snappiest as well! Sadly, I thought that after they moved to Debian it was no longer possible to use our drivers, and abandoned the idea. Now you say it could be done with EMGD1.8? But the compatibility list just says about F14, why so? In any case I wuld love to run Crunchbang once again, as I find it more appropriate for underpowered netbooks. I would also be happy to run Chakra (I appreciate the KDE-only approach), but psb_gfx module doesn't work out-of-the-box yet.

Sorry for long post and slightly off-topic :oops:, but I'm just sharing thoughts regarding our GPU-Distro limitations

PA UPDATE: I must be paranoid...all of a sudden PA is back to skipping backwards, and I can't even recall if I updated.

[lucazade]

I've been testing Kubuntu (much stabler than Ubuntu atm), mainly due to the PA issue, as in Kubuntu I can uninstall it without drama. I had PA completely removed, and I reinstalled it after someone commented on the bug report he had no problem with the latest version.

Ragarding distros and DE of choice, I have to say Crunchbang has been the most productive distro I've used. I was just focusing on my work and it was the snappiest as well! Sadly, I thought that after they moved to Debian it was no longer possible to use our drivers, and abandoned the idea. Now you say it could be done with EMGD1.8? But the compatibility list just says about F14, why so? In any case I wuld love to run Crunchbang once again, as I find it more appropriate for underpowered netbooks. I would also be happy to run Chakra (I appreciate the KDE-only approach), but psb_gfx module doesn't work out-of-the-box yet.

Sorry for long post and slightly off-topic :oops:, but I'm just sharing thoughts regarding our GPU-Distro limitations

PA UPDATE: I must be paranoid...all of a sudden PA is back to skipping backwards, and I can't even recall if I updated.

i've seen the bugreport switched to triaged, so we should hope they will fix it.

about emgd and debian there was a ad-hoc script for it included in emgd mega-package, don't know if still included and updated for latest debian. maybe it worth a try.

[tihoulas]

Hi,
I have just installed oneiric on my asus t91mt.
Following some info gathered in other threads, have managed to install the psb-gfx driver from the testing ppa.

I just have a 'slight' problem : using lightdm and unity, everything is fine, exept I don't quite like unity. However, when using kdm, the screen is split : only the upper half is drawn, the bottom one being just blue...

Does anybody has any idea of what could be wrong ?

[lucazade]

Hi,
I have just installed oneiric on my asus t91mt.
Following some info gathered in other threads, have managed to install the psb-gfx driver from the testing ppa.

I just have a 'slight' problem : using lightdm and unity, everything is fine, exept I don't quite like unity. However, when using kdm, the screen is split : only the upper half is drawn, the bottom one being just blue...

Does anybody has any idea of what could be wrong ?

in natty you have to disable plymouth to avoid screensplit with psb_gfx (in Oneiric is fixed)
try this:
sudo mv /etc/init/plymouth.conf /etc/init/plymouth.conf.disabled

[tihoulas]

in natty you have to disable plymouth to avoid screensplit with psb_gfx (in Oneiric is fixed)
try this:
sudo mv /etc/init/plymouth.conf /etc/init/plymouth.conf.disabled

Unfortunately, that didn't work.
As noted earlier, I don't have that split screen issue using lightdm.

I noticed an error in dmesg :

[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
gma500 0000:00:02.0: irq 40 for MSI/MSI-X
gma500 0000:00:02.0: setting latency tumer to 64
ioremap error for 0x3f66e000-0x3f671000, requested 0x10, got 0x0
Stolen memory information
base in RAM: 0x3f800000
size: 7932K, calculated by (GTT RAM base) - (Stolen base), seems wrong
the correct size should be: 8M(dvmt mode=3)
Set up 1983 stolen pages starting at 0x3f800000, GTT offset OK
[drm] SGX core id = 0x01130000
<... some other stuff.../>
[drm] No driver support for vblank timestanp query

[lucazade]

Unfortunately, that didn't work.
As noted earlier, I don't have that split screen issue using lightdm.

I noticed an error in dmesg :

[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
gma500 0000:00:02.0: irq 40 for MSI/MSI-X
gma500 0000:00:02.0: setting latency tumer to 64
ioremap error for 0x3f66e000-0x3f671000, requested 0x10, got 0x0
Stolen memory information
base in RAM: 0x3f800000
size: 7932K, calculated by (GTT RAM base) - (Stolen base), seems wrong
the correct size should be: 8M(dvmt mode=3)
Set up 1983 stolen pages starting at 0xj3f800000, GTT offset OK
[drm] SGX core id = 0x01130000
<... some other stuff.../>
[drm] No driver support for vblank timestanp query

ioremap error is normal, as the driver author told me.
if lightdm is not splitted then it is probably kde compositor with the wrong backend.
IIRC you have to switch to Xrender but you have to ask to thopiekar or jbandos, i use gnome

[tihoulas]

ioremap error is normal, as the driver author told me.
if lightdm is not splitted then it is probably kde compositor with the wrong backend.
IIRC you have to switch to Xrender but you have to ask to thopiekar or jbandos, i use gnome

Compositing is turned off ; the problem appears right after X starts, at the kdm login screen. I guess I'll have to use a mix of lightdm/kde or switch to emgd for the moment.

[thopiekar]

Compositing is turned off ; the problem appears right after X starts, at the kdm login screen. I guess I'll have to use a mix of lightdm/kde or switch to emgd for the moment.

Well, if you are talking about KDE on Oneiric you should purge kdm for example and make a new clean install.

@Luka: We can copy the recipe for mplayer and make it build also daily in our ppa.
I hope I'll have today time to do some packaging (for emgd-sys-tools at least).
And yes I'll check that out with flashplayer.. can't beleave that intel doesn,t provide the needed libs. At least meego should have them.

see ya

[lucazade]

Well, if you are talking about KDE on Oneiric you should purge kdm for example and make a new clean install.

@Luka: We can copy the recipe for mplayer and make it build also daily in our ppa.
I hope I'll have today time to do some packaging (for emgd-sys-tools at least).
And yes I'll check that out with flashplayer.. can't beleave that intel doesn,t provide the needed libs. At least meego should have them.

see ya

ok great.. going to look at new bugreports ;)

[thopiekar]

Our emgd-support* packages: https://launchpad.net/~gma500/+archive/emgd-fix/+recipebuild/87833
With *-autoconfigure package which doesn't affect any changes on the system at the moment.
Will change that today ;)

[thopiekar]

Made now the last changes to the metapackages.
All should work but not sure about the grub-modification..

In xorg.conf we always got 24bit set to use, but in Luca's script we've got always 32bit color resolution..
*-autoconfiguration will use 24bit dunno if it will work.

I will also add emgd-xorg-conf if there are devices out there that need a refreshrate != 58, which is also used in the script..

Well, try out the new packages and give some feedback.

## IMPORTANT!! ########################################
MAKE A FULL BACKUP OF YOUR CONFIGURATION!
IF YOUR *UBUNTU INSTALLATION FAILS TO REBOOT TRY THE FAILSAVE BOOTOPTION!!
################################################## ######
https://launchpad.net/~gma500/+archive/emgd-fix/+packages

PS: emgd-sys-fixpm will be updated now, because of a problem in reading the "fix" and "unfix" option..
AND: CHECK YOUR /ETC/DEFAULT/GRUB! It is malformed! Dunno why, but haven't seen that when I tested the script :/

[thopiekar]

Uploaded now a fix for the last problem in emgd-xorg-conf.
Works now all well for me ;)

[lucazade]

Thomas i'm trying out new stuff.. at the moment in a vbox just to check what happens before touching new beta2 on the lappy =)
anyway what a huge work you have done, thanks.

so i've added ppa:gma500/emgd-fix and installed the meta-package emgd-support.
some things i've noticed during installation:
- It would be nice if xorg-1.9 packages are auto marked as updates.
- is emgdui still useful? isn't emgdgui enough?
- What are the emgd-support-* files? (I should check better your sources)
- a problem for emgd-support-autoconfiguration:
...Estrazione di emgd-support-autoconfiguration (da .../emgd-support-autoconfiguration_0.0.1-0~5~oneiric1_i386.deb)...
ERROR by IndexError: list index out of range
['quiet', 'splash']
* Adding <acpi_backlight=vendor>
* Replacing #GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480 with GRUB_GFXMODE=1366x768x32
Generating grub.cfg ...


for the rest seems ok.. all files are correctly written and modified.
gonna try on real machine. :D

[thopiekar]

About the "Error" which is printed out.. It is ok that it is printed out.
At least I think it will always happen. I should remove it, because it was for debugging purposes.

And about emgd-sys-grubman: Hope it will never make any issues anymore.. Just had to rewrite the code yesterday in hours :-x

1. Ok, can add that to emgd-support-basic
2. About the metapackages in general:

emgd-support installs everything, in detail:
- emgd-support-basic (kernel modules for emgd and emgdbl, plus xorg modules)
- emgd-support-multimedia (gstreamer-plugins and maybe flashplayer later)
- emgd-support-extra (emgdui plus emgdinfo)
- emgd-support-autoconfiguration (, which configures your system via postinst and postrm scripts)

and yes, if you remove autoconfiguration it will undo the changes..

I haven't found flashplayer in the megapackage.. Just found a site from Intel where I need to register..
Could you upload it for me somewhere?

[lucazade]

here is the flashplayer.so downloaded from that website:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/gma500/FP10.1_CE4100_PC21.1_MEEGO1.2_07142011.tar.gz

a readme and a pdf document related to flashplayer with vaapi:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/gma500/HW_Acc_Flash_FAQ.PDF
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/gma500/RELNOTES1.txt

[thopiekar]

Ubuntu seems to provide most of the libraries..
But a there are some missing like
libismd: Intel Streaming Media Drivers

Can't find the on the net :/ I'll contact some who could know more..

[lucazade]

Ubuntu seems to provide most of the libraries..
But a there are some missing like
libismd: Intel Streaming Media Drivers

Can't find the on the net :/ I'll contact some who could know more..

Intel Streaming Media Driver elements – Josep Torra, Fluendo
Intel build two x86-based SoCs for use in set-top boxes: CE4100 (Sodaville) and CE3100 (Canmore). Intel provides an SDK which is a Linux system with GStreamer. They have two integrated HD video decoders and audio DSPs, a HW blender for compositing, and have OpenGL ES support.

Intel Streaming Media Driver (ISMD) is a low-level API that accesses this hardware. Fluendo has wrapped this into GStreamer elements. Intel puts another library on top of GStreamer to make C++ multimedia applications.

ISMD elements are autopluggable into decodebin2 and friends. They can be mixed with software-based elements (e.g. muxers): buffers are converted automatically after negotiation.

DVB source can select channels and parse program info.

Audio sink has caps for compressed formats, which are handled directly by hardware. Re-encodes transparently to AC3 or DTS if the selected output channel is e.g. S/PDIF. It is also a clock provider, giving an ISMD clock (which allows hardware to synchronize on it).

Video decoder, video post-processor, video sink, etc.

http://mindlinux.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/impressions-from-the-gstreamer-conference/

don't know if could help finding this lib

[lucazade]

http://core.fluendo.com/gstreamer/src/gst-fluendo-ismd/

this?

[thopiekar]

Found in the MediaSDK just Windows binaries..

The last link you send me contains code for gstreamer-plugin which uses our needed libraries..

Are the libs really not provided with the library!? Intel seems to be really stupid providing software without dependencies.

Its like getting a hot dog without sausage :/

PS: Wrote now Josep Torra.. maybe he can help me ;)

[thopiekar]

Well, contacted him and he said to better check the Intel page for that.
When Intel says that they support this plugin on Meego and Fedora, shouldn't the deps not be available on these distributions? Checked some Meego pages but I wasn't successful :(

[Serradesantferm]

Hi there,

Quite a long thread. Apologies if this has been answered before but I couldn't find any reference to the same issue. I am using an Asus eeepc 1101HA which of course sports the wonderful GMA500 aka poulsbo graphics chipset. I installed Natty onto it and followed the instructions on the wiki at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo to install the EMGD drivers. The good news is that they work. Well mostly, otherwise I wouldn't be entertaining you with this brief epistle. To the point I hear you say so with no further ado here's the thing: switch user.

It appears that this little yoke does not quite like firing up a second X server. If I'm logged in as myself and select a different user from the menu on the top right, my session disappears as expected, the screen flashes a couple of times and I am presented with the unlock prompt for myself again. I would expect to see a list of users to choose from. If at the unlock prompt I select "Switch user" again the screen goes black and it stays black until I move the mouse or press a key in which case I am back to the unlock screen for myself once more. It all works as expected if I log out instead of attempting to switch users.

What I find odd is that nobody else seems to have seen this. I have seen similar reports in the past which turned out to be due to dodgy Nvidia drivers. I don't see anything immediately obvious either in /var/log/Xorg.0.log or /var/log/syslog (which I can only assume is a reincarnation of good old /var/log messages). But then again I am no expert in X or graphics drivers so I really don't know what to look for.

Any hints or suggestions most appreciated.

[lucazade]

Well, contacted him and he said to better check the Intel page for that.
When Intel says that they support this plugin on Meego and Fedora, shouldn't the deps not be available on these distributions? Checked some Meego pages but I wasn't successful :(

I wasn't able to find anything.. weird..

[Noma]

Hi there,

Quite a long thread. Apologies if this has been answered before but I couldn't find any reference to the same issue. I am using an Asus eeepc 1101HA which of course sports the wonderful GMA500 aka poulsbo graphics chipset. I installed Natty onto it and followed the instructions on the wiki at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo to install the EMGD drivers. The good news is that they work. Well mostly, otherwise I wouldn't be entertaining you with this brief epistle. To the point I hear you say so with no further ado here's the thing: switch user.

It appears that this little yoke does not quite like firing up a second X server. If I'm logged in as myself and select a different user from the menu on the top right, my session disappears as expected, the screen flashes a couple of times and I am presented with the unlock prompt for myself again. I would expect to see a list of users to choose from. If at the unlock prompt I select "Switch user" again the screen goes black and it stays black until I move the mouse or press a key in which case I am back to the unlock screen for myself once more. It all works as expected if I log out instead of attempting to switch users.

What I find odd is that nobody else seems to have seen this. I have seen similar reports in the past which turned out to be due to dodgy Nvidia drivers. I don't see anything immediately obvious either in /var/log/Xorg.0.log or /var/log/syslog (which I can only assume is a reincarnation of good old /var/log messages). But then again I am no expert in X or graphics drivers so I really don't know what to look for.

Any hints or suggestions most appreciated.

Hi Serradesantferm, the same issue with me, but this happens when i log out and the X fails to restart. I observe black screen untill reboot. I previously described it but none seems to pay any attention, probably due to it's rare nature. Solution has not been found yet, i suppose it's somehow related to downgraded xorg.

[thopiekar]

Hi Serradesantferm, the same issue with me, but this happens when i log out and the X fails to restart. I observe black screen untill reboot. I previously described it but none seems to pay any attention, probably due to it's rare nature. Solution has not been found yet, i suppose it's somehow related to downgraded xorg.

Well, could be.. Our because of itself Xorg which I took and not from Ubuntu's repo.
Which Ubuntu release is using 1.9 as default? You could check if it works there..

I'm just making the packages and hope the result usable. If you find a version that works better than the one we use I could use this code the next time Ubuntu releases. (In about half a year.)

The US-keyboard layout problem is also there, isn't it?

@Luca: I really don't understand Intel's stupidism not to provide the deps :(

[Serradesantferm]

Well, could be.. Our because of itself Xorg which I took and not from Ubuntu's repo.
Which Ubuntu release is using 1.9 as default? You could check if it works there..

I'm just making the packages and hope the result usable. If you find a version that works better than the one we use I could use this code the next time Ubuntu releases. (In about half a year.)

The US-keyboard layout problem is also there, isn't it?

@Luca: I really don't understand Intel's stupidism not to provide the deps :(

From this (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+publishinghistory) it looks like it changed on Maverick. Earlier Natty versions have it too. Might fiddle around later if I have time.

[simplygades]

Hi Serradesantferm, the same issue with me, but this happens when i log out and the X fails to restart. I observe black screen untill reboot. I previously described it but none seems to pay any attention, probably due to it's rare nature. Solution has not been found yet, i suppose it's somehow related to downgraded xorg.

Hi! Are you using Ubuntu, or perhaps Kubuntu and KDM?

From this (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+publishinghistory) it looks like it changed on Maverick. Earlier Natty versions have it too. Might fiddle around later if I have time.

I' haven't really been in a need of using two accounts simultaneously, so I kind of had forgotten this issue. However, I thinks it has been present since 10.04 on my machine.. Certainly was there with psb, too.

[simplygades]

I didn't notice that, as I have the options in ~/.mplayer/config. And now I've tried more complicated videos, things quickly get slow and out of sync with audio. Seems like that mplayer doesn't have vaapi support enabled.


Just tried to install libx264-106 dependency in Oneiric from the Natty repositories, and mplayer from gma500 ppa on top of this, and worked! So if anyone needs a workaround till everything is settled properly... ;)

[Noma]

[QUOTE=simplygades;11293059]Hi! Are you using Ubuntu, or perhaps Kubuntu and KDM?


Hi, I tried both and both are affected. When I do stop gdm and then restart it, then X fires up perfectly well.

[simplygades]

Hi, I tried both and both are affected. When I do stop gdm and then restart it, then X fires up perfectly well.

OK, I haven't tested this behavior for GDM for a while, but give a shot at KDM trying the following settings in

/etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc



# Restart instead of resetting the local X-server after session exit.
# Use it if the server leaks memory etc.
# Default is false
TerminateServer=true


if the bold line was commented (#) then uncomment it, save, reboot and try again. Hope it works. Probably gdm will have such an option too, but I'm not aware of which is it.

[lucazade]

@thopiekar

there are some issues to start lightdm with emgd.. sometimes it freeze during oneiric startup because cannot start X.
really really really annoying.. to not say anything else.

ah.. emgd-support-autoconfiguration cannot be removed because of a post script issue.

[lucazade]

see next

[lucazade]

pulseaudio bug half-fixed for intel hda sound chip (oneiric)

applied workarounds found in arch wiki pulse audio and everything is working now
- Glitches, skips or crackling
- Choppy sound

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#Glitches.2C_skips_or_crackling

[PilotPaul]

Hi All,

I would like to try EMGD out on Oneiric on my Acer 751h...I know there has been a lot of work going on here and so have been holding back to give you guys space to sort things out. However if there is enough progress to be ready for some serious testing then I have a spare partition I am happy to use as a testbed and feed back any results I get.

Just let me know how I go about installing now and I will get a latest daily-build install ready...

Cheers

Paul

[thopiekar]

@thopiekar

there are some issues to start lightdm with emgd.. sometimes it freeze during oneiric startup because cannot start X.
really really really annoying.. to not say anything else.

ah.. emgd-support-autoconfiguration cannot be removed because of a post script issue.

well, I'll fix that tomorrow when I'm back at home. hope it won't be much work.
About kdm-fix: does it really work? I would add it to emgd-sys-tools then.. I think the configuration file has almost the same style as the grub-file, so I would just need to copy and paste half of emgd-sys-grubman's code :)
And lightdm: well, do you get any output in any logs? maybe we can find a workaround for that, too, or use gdm.

[lucazade]

@thopiekar

/var/log/lightdm/lightdm.conf

[+0.03s] DEBUG: Logging to /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log
[+0.03s] DEBUG: Starting Light Display Manager 1.0.1, UID=0 PID=869
[+0.03s] DEBUG: Loaded configuration from /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
[+0.03s] DEBUG: Using D-Bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
[+0.04s] DEBUG: Registered seat module xlocal
[+0.04s] DEBUG: Registered seat module xremote
[+0.04s] DEBUG: Adding default seat
[+0.04s] DEBUG: Starting seat
[+0.04s] DEBUG: Starting new display for automatic login as user luca
[+0.04s] DEBUG: Starting local X display
[+0.07s] DEBUG: X server :0 will replace Plymouth
[+0.10s] DEBUG: Using VT 7
[+0.10s] DEBUG: Activating VT 7
[+0.10s] DEBUG: Logging to /var/log/lightdm/x-0.log
[+0.12s] DEBUG: Writing X server authority to /var/run/lightdm/root/:0
[+0.13s] DEBUG: Launching X Server
[+0.13s] DEBUG: Launching process 903: /usr/bin/X :0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch -background none
[+0.13s] DEBUG: Waiting for ready signal from X server :0
[+0.13s] DEBUG: Acquired bus name
[+0.13s] DEBUG: Registering seat with bus path /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
[+0.38s] DEBUG: Process 903 exited with return value 1
[+0.38s] DEBUG: X server stopped
[+0.38s] DEBUG: Removing X server authority /var/run/lightdm/root/:0
[+0.38s] DEBUG: Releasing VT 7
[+0.38s] DEBUG: Stopping Plymouth, X server failed to start
[+0.43s] DEBUG: Display server stopped
[+0.43s] DEBUG: Stopping display
[+0.43s] DEBUG: Display stopped
[+0.43s] DEBUG: Stopping X local seat, failed to start a display
[+0.43s] DEBUG: Stopping seat
[+0.43s] DEBUG: Seat stopped
[+0.45s] DEBUG: Stopping lightdm, required seat has stopped
[+0.45s] DEBUG: Stopping display manager
[+0.45s] DEBUG: Display manager stopped
[+0.45s] DEBUG: Stopping Light Display Manager

the machine hangs at plymouth because lightdm seems not able to start X.

I have to start w/o plymouth so when lightdm hangs I can use the VT and with:
sudo service lightdm restart
everything continue normally.
weird!

I've tried now again on a fresh install of daily builds.

[lucazade]

[+0.11s] DEBUG: Logging to /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log
[+0.11s] DEBUG: Starting Light Display Manager 1.0.1, UID=0 PID=931
[+0.11s] DEBUG: Loaded configuration from /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
[+0.11s] DEBUG: Using D-Bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
[+0.11s] DEBUG: Registered seat module xlocal
[+0.11s] DEBUG: Registered seat module xremote
[+0.11s] DEBUG: Adding default seat
[+0.12s] DEBUG: Starting seat
[+0.12s] DEBUG: Starting new display for greeter
[+0.12s] DEBUG: Starting local X display
[+0.13s] DEBUG: Using VT 7
[+0.13s] DEBUG: Activating VT 7
[+0.13s] DEBUG: Logging to /var/log/lightdm/x-0.log
[+0.14s] DEBUG: Writing X server authority to /var/run/lightdm/root/:0
[+0.15s] DEBUG: Launching X Server
[+0.15s] DEBUG: Launching process 953: /usr/bin/X :0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch
[+0.15s] DEBUG: Waiting for ready signal from X server :0
[+0.15s] DEBUG: Acquired bus name
[+0.15s] DEBUG: Registering seat with bus path /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
[+2.29s] DEBUG: Got signal 10 from process 953
[+2.29s] DEBUG: Got signal from X server :0
[+2.29s] DEBUG: Connecting to XServer :0
[+2.29s] DEBUG: Starting greeter session
[+2.57s] DEBUG: pam_start("lightdm-autologin", "lightdm") -> (0x8661b00, 0)
[+2.58s] DEBUG: Starting session unity-greeter as user lightdm logging to /var/log/lightdm/x-0-greeter.log
[+2.60s] DEBUG: pam_authenticate(0x8661b00, 0) -> 0 (Success)
[+2.60s] DEBUG: pam_acct_mgmt(0x8661b00, 0) -> 0 (Success)
[+2.60s] DEBUG: Launching session
[+2.65s] DEBUG: pam_set_item(0x8661b00, 3, ":0") -> 0 (Success)
[+2.67s] DEBUG: pam_open_session(0x8661b00, 0) -> 0 (Success)
[+2.95s] DEBUG: Opened ConsoleKit session 8d312e5e1e605e4a5bf2481f02799875-1317770633.182641-1999259545
[+2.95s] DEBUG: Dropping privileges to uid 104
[+2.95s] DEBUG: Adding session authority to /var/lib/lightdm/.Xauthority
[+3.05s] DEBUG: Restoring privileges
[+3.05s] DEBUG: Launching process 1100: /usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm-greeter-session 'unity-greeter'
[+3.05s] WARNING: Failed to open log file /var/log/lightdm/x-0-greeter.log: Permission denied
[+3.05s] DEBUG: pam_setcred(0x8661b00, PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED) -> 0 (Success)
[+3.05s] DEBUG: PAM returns environment 'PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=it_IT.UTF-8'
[+4.34s] DEBUG: Read 8 bytes from greeter
[+4.34s] DEBUG: Read 9 bytes from greeter
[+4.34s] DEBUG: Greeter connected version=1.0.1
[+4.34s] DEBUG: Wrote 101 bytes to greeter
[+4.34s] DEBUG: Greeter connected, display is ready
[+4.34s] DEBUG: New display ready, switching to it
[+4.34s] DEBUG: Activating VT 7
[+8.16s] DEBUG: Read 8 bytes from greeter
[+8.16s] DEBUG: Read 12 bytes from greeter
[+8.16s] DEBUG: Greeter start authentication for luca
[+8.24s] DEBUG: pam_start("lightdm", "luca") -> (0x866bc08, 0)
[+8.25s] DEBUG: Prompt greeter with 1 message(s)
[+8.25s] DEBUG: Wrote 42 bytes to greeter
[+12.50s] DEBUG: Read 8 bytes from greeter
[+12.50s] DEBUG: Read 14 bytes from greeter
[+12.50s] DEBUG: Continue authentication
[+12.71s] DEBUG: pam_authenticate(0x866bc08, 0) -> 0 (Success)
[+12.71s] DEBUG: pam_acct_mgmt(0x866bc08, 0) -> 0 (Success)
[+12.71s] DEBUG: Authenticate result for user luca: Success
[+12.71s] DEBUG: User luca authorized
[+12.71s] DEBUG: Wrote 24 bytes to greeter
[+12.74s] DEBUG: Read 8 bytes from greeter
[+12.74s] DEBUG: Read 13 bytes from greeter
[+12.74s] DEBUG: Greeter requests session ubuntu-2d
[+12.79s] DEBUG: Stopping greeter
[+12.79s] DEBUG: Dropping privileges to uid 104
[+12.79s] DEBUG: Removing session authority from /var/lib/lightdm/.Xauthority
[+12.84s] DEBUG: Restoring privileges
[+12.84s] DEBUG: Sending signal 15 to process 1100
[+12.84s] DEBUG: Process 1100 exited with return value 0
[+12.85s] DEBUG: pam_close_session(0x8661b00) -> 0 (Success)
[+12.85s] DEBUG: pam_setcred(0x8661b00, PAM_DELETE_CRED) -> 0 (Success)
[+12.85s] DEBUG: pam_end(0x8661b00) -> 0
[+12.85s] DEBUG: Ending ConsoleKit session 8d312e5e1e605e4a5bf2481f02799875-1317770633.182641-1999259545
[+12.98s] DEBUG: Greeter quit
[+12.98s] DEBUG: Starting user session
[+13.11s] DEBUG: Dropping privileges to uid 1000
[+13.11s] DEBUG: Writing /home/luca/.dmrc
[+13.21s] DEBUG: Restoring privileges
[+13.29s] DEBUG: Starting session ubuntu-2d as user luca logging to /home/luca/.xsession-errors
[+13.29s] DEBUG: Launching session
[+13.29s] DEBUG: pam_set_item(0x866bc08, 3, ":0") -> 0 (Success)
[+13.38s] DEBUG: pam_open_session(0x866bc08, 0) -> 0 (Success)
[+13.45s] DEBUG: Opened ConsoleKit session 8d312e5e1e605e4a5bf2481f02799875-1317770643.663394-1596711972
[+13.45s] DEBUG: Dropping privileges to uid 1000
[+13.45s] DEBUG: Adding session authority to /home/luca/.Xauthority
[+13.49s] DEBUG: Restoring privileges
[+13.49s] DEBUG: Launching process 1328: /usr/sbin/lightdm-session 'gnome-session --session=ubuntu-2d'
[+13.50s] DEBUG: pam_setcred(0x866bc08, PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED) -> 0 (Success)
[+13.50s] DEBUG: PAM returns environment 'GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-t8HVlT GNOME_KEYRING_PID=1319 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=it_IT.UTF-8'
[+13.50s] DEBUG: Registering session with bus path /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session0
[+13.53s] DEBUG: Failed to find locale for language it

this is a working log.. i've seen that launching lightdm manually from VT there is not this:
X server :0 will replace Plymouth

so there is a conflict between plymouth, lightdm and X about the 7th VT...
disabling plymouth did the trick..
sudo mv /etc/init/plymouth.conf /etc/init/plymouth.conf.disabled

now i'd like a better fix.. going to open a bug and check if our fix in emgd-support is problematic.

[konas]

pulseaudio bug half-fixed for intel hda sound chip (oneiric)

applied workarounds found in arch wiki pulse audio and everything is working now
- Glitches, skips or crackling
- Choppy sound

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#Glitches.2C_skips_or_crackling

I have the same problem with my sound, for me removing the .pulse directory at each session works fine...

[lucazade]

I have the same problem with my sound, for me removing the .pulse directory at each session works fine...

probably this will kill pulse at each session and without it works fine fallbacking to alsa.
could you check if pulseaudio is running:
ps -ax | grep pulse
and could you tell which audio chipset you have:
lspci -vvv | grep Audio

[lucazade]

Hi All,

I would like to try EMGD out on Oneiric on my Acer 751h...I know there has been a lot of work going on here and so have been holding back to give you guys space to sort things out. However if there is enough progress to be ready for some serious testing then I have a spare partition I am happy to use as a testbed and feed back any results I get.

Just let me know how I go about installing now and I will get a latest daily-build install ready...

Cheers

Paul

sudo add-apt-repoitory ppa:gma500/emgd-fix
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install emgd-support

to start livecd and to boot first time after installation you need to blacklist two kernel modules installed by default but broken.
when you start livecd hit f6 at the beginning and add these to kernel string:
poulsbo.asd=1 psb_gfx.asd=1

when you boot for first time after installation hit 'e', modify kernel string and append after 'quiet splash' these:
poulsbo.asd=1 psb_gfx.asd=1

once emgd are installed these commands are no more necessary.

another thing you may encounter is that plymouth conflicts with lightdm (after emgd are installed) so the session doesn't start.
then to fix it:
sudo mv /etc/init/plymouth.conf /etc/init/plymouth.conf.disabled

last but not the least in oneiric there are some glitches with audio on some gma500 netbook (acer751h for sure!).. workaround is to change audio timesched following this guide:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#Glitches.2C_skips_or_crackling

think it is enough.. if anyone want to add the notes to wiki I'd happy :)

[simplygades]

@ Luca: Quite happy with PA working well, finally!

Does anybody experience system hangs? I left mine running overnight and found it with a blank screen in the morning, not responding, that happened three nights in a row. I also have experienced getting stuck at shutdown with plymouth screen and HDD led constantly on..

[lucazade]

@ Luca: Quite happy with PA working well, finally!

Does anybody experience system hangs? I left mine running overnight and found it with a blank screen in the morning, not responding, that happened three nights in a row. I also have experienced getting stuck at shutdown with plymouth screen and HDD led constantly on..

no hangs here but I haven't used oneiric intensively, about stuck at shutdown I can confirm it, it happens sometimes.
we need emgd support for kernel 3.x and xorg 1.1x otherwise we all these workarounds we are prone to bugs.

[konas]

probably this will kill pulse at each session and without it works fine fallbacking to alsa.
could you check if pulseaudio is running:
ps -ax | grep pulse
and could you tell which audio chipset you have:
lspci -vvv | grep Audio

here is the output
1541 ? S<l 0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
1546 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper
2273 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto pulse


00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) HD Audio Controller (rev 07)

[badmisterfrosty]

So just to clarify, if I ran the alternate install CD and didn't need to blacklist those 2 files for installation, I should only need to add the repository, update, upgrade, and install emgd-support?

[PilotPaul]

Initial results for EMGD on Oneiric:

Tested on Acer Aspire One 751h (see sig for full config), Oneiric daily-live from 3/10/11 plus ubuntu-restricted-extras, wine, nfs-common, chromium-browser, mythtv-frontend (0.25 repos) and all updates...

1. Initial installation worked fine. Needed Plymouth fix to enable boot.

2. Logging into Unity 3D just gives a background with an outline of the top menu bar...unusable.

3. Unity 2D works fine, and seems quite snappy.

4. MythTV playback using Xv seems fine...still need to sort out choppy sound (will try this later)

5. No resume from suspend...suspend itself seems to work but no response to either keystrokes or power button to resume.

I'm going to try using it as my main system for a few days to give it a really good test and will report further...

[thopiekar]

updated my system today and something got broken...
(also updated to kernel 3.0.0-12-generic)

...
[ 238.696221] poulsbo 0000:00:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
[ 238.696237] poulsbo 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 238.696915] GMMADR(region 0) start: 0xd0000000 (256M).
[ 238.696928] GTTADR(region 3) start: 0xf3f40000 (can map 256M RAM), and actual RAM base 0x3ffc0000.
[ 238.696937] Stolen memory information
[ 238.696944] base in RAM: 0x3f800000
[ 238.696951] size: 7932K, calculated by (GTT RAM base) - (Stolen base)
[ 238.696960] size: 0M (dvmt mode=0)
[ 238.697115] Set up 1983 stolen pages starting at 0x0003f800, GTT offset 0K
[ 238.697562] [drm] Initialized emgd 1.0.0 20100723 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
[ 238.697586] [EMGD] drm_init() returning 0
[ 238.960787] Inserting over stolen memory.
[ 238.975559] poulsbo 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 238.994575] Inserting over stolen memory.
[ 238.995550] Inserting over stolen memory.
[ 239.015972] Inserting over stolen memory.

[lucazade]

updated my system today and something got broken...
(also updated to kernel 3.0.0-12-generic)

...
[ 238.696221] poulsbo 0000:00:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
[ 238.696237] poulsbo 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 238.696915] GMMADR(region 0) start: 0xd0000000 (256M).
[ 238.696928] GTTADR(region 3) start: 0xf3f40000 (can map 256M RAM), and actual RAM base 0x3ffc0000.
[ 238.696937] Stolen memory information
[ 238.696944] base in RAM: 0x3f800000
[ 238.696951] size: 7932K, calculated by (GTT RAM base) - (Stolen base)
[ 238.696960] size: 0M (dvmt mode=0)
[ 238.697115] Set up 1983 stolen pages starting at 0x0003f800, GTT offset 0K
[ 238.697562] [drm] Initialized emgd 1.0.0 20100723 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
[ 238.697586] [EMGD] drm_init() returning 0
[ 238.960787] Inserting over stolen memory.
[ 238.975559] poulsbo 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 238.994575] Inserting over stolen memory.
[ 238.995550] Inserting over stolen memory.
[ 239.015972] Inserting over stolen memory.

same output is present also here but my machine is still working well after updates.

[ 20.394372] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 20.430939] poulsbo 0000:00:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 20.430961] poulsbo 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 20.431725] GMMADR(region 0) start: 0xc0000000 (256M).
[ 20.431738] GTTADR(region 3) start: 0xb0000000 (can map 256M RAM), and actual
RAM base 0x7ffc0000.
[ 20.431748] Stolen memory information
[ 20.431755] base in RAM: 0x7f800000
[ 20.431762] size: 7932K, calculated by (GTT RAM base) - (Stolen base)
[ 20.431772] size: 0M (dvmt mode=0)
[ 20.431915] Set up 1983 stolen pages starting at 0x0007f800, GTT offset 0K
[ 20.432455] [drm] Initialized emgd 1.0.0 20100723 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
[ 20.433937] [EMGD] drm_init() returning 0
[ 20.476555] EXT4-fs (sda8): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro,commit=600
[ 20.713147] Inserting over stolen memory.
[ 20.737835] poulsbo 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 20.748944] Inserting over stolen memory.
[ 20.749981] Inserting over stolen memory.
[ 20.787816] Inserting over stolen memory.


xorg log is ok?

[thopiekar]

Fixes are available soon for:
* emgd-support
* emgd-xorg-conf
* emgd-sys-conf

[lucazade]

Thanks Thomas! :)

[gsedej]

Hi! I am interested which combination of driver and Ubuntu release works the best. I need something fast and stable (3D optionally, but good 2D). I need as presentation/tutorial laptop (good support of different resolutions for projectors)

I have Asus eee 1101HA.
I read few pages in this topic but no luck. I didn't read all 500 pages :)

EDIT: can someone update the HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo site? Dropbox links does not work!
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo

[thopiekar]

Hi! I am interested which combination of driver and Ubuntu release works the best. I need something fast and stable (3D optionally, but good 2D). I need as presentation/tutorial laptop (good support of different resolutions for projectors)

I have Asus eee 1101HA.
I read few pages in this topic but no luck. I didn't read all 500 pages :)

EDIT: can someone update the HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo site? Dropbox links does not work!
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo

When using projectors use the old psb stable driver or maybe the unstable psb_gfx driver.

[tista]

@Luca,

Hey mate, I've re-synced git tree for psb_gfx again! ;)
then today I've uploaded new revision:
https://launchpad.net/~tista/+archive/psb-gfx-daily/+build/2842536

But I didn't test it yet, so I want someone who may try to dive into bleeding edge!!

cheers.

Tista

[thopiekar]

Are any modifications needed to install the driver?
Would removing emgd-support and installing your dkms be enough?

btw, have you started patchworks on the s2-liplianin drivers?

PS: tista, here is the maemo SDK for my Nokia N900.. It is using the PVR-drivers you have in the PPA. You can install it and search there for sources and binaries. http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/Maemo_5_Final_SDK_Installation

[tista]

Are any modifications needed to install the driver?
Would removing emgd-support and installing your dkms be enough?

btw, have you started patchworks on the s2-liplianin drivers?

PS: tista, here is the maemo SDK for my Nokia N900.. It is using the PVR-drivers you have in the PPA. You can install it and search there for sources and binaries. http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/Maemo_5_Final_SDK_Installation

Hi thopiekar,

Maybe it could be installed without any tweaks. ;)
But plymouth fix might be needed, and I didn't tested yet because I'm reinstalling OO on my VAIO P now...

And not yet... I only pull the sources and extract them on my local storage. so I'm concerning whether I should open new bzr or ppa.

P.S:
Thanks. Yeah I also applied similar SDK to drain some sources and scripts from them. Recently I've read some articles about MeeGo, then they open new project and are merging MeeGo codes and devs into the new one?! Please stop making complicated code bases any more!! lol
Anyway I have to pull/hunt the new sources from somewhere... and unfortunately I might also have to dup psb_gfx as another dkms to employ pvr_glue such as earliest pvrserverkm... :S Yep, Reverse Engineering.

I really hope Allan's MID team could make yet another Xorg driver for psb_gfx like standard Intel driver!! or they could merge psb's stuff into Intel driver as well. Since today we could run Intel GPU wih experimental Gallium driver for 3D and VA-API video playback partially. :)

cheers.

[lucazade]

Hi thopiekar,

Maybe it could be installed without any tweaks. ;)
But plymouth fix might be needed, and I didn't tested yet because I'm reinstalling OO on my VAIO P now...

And not yet... I only pull the sources and extract them on my local storage. so I'm concerning whether I should open new bzr or ppa.

P.S:
Thanks. Yeah I also applied similar SDK to drain some sources and scripts from them. Recently I've read some articles about MeeGo, then they open new project and are merging MeeGo codes and devs into the new one?! Please stop making complicated code bases any more!! lol
Anyway I have to pull/hunt the new sources from somewhere... and unfortunately I might also have to dup psb_gfx as another dkms to employ pvr_glue such as earliest pvrserverkm... :S Yep, Reverse Engineering.

I really hope Allan's MID team could make yet another Xorg driver for psb_gfx like standard Intel driver!! or they could merge psb's stuff into Intel driver as well. Since today we could run Intel GPU wih experimental Gallium driver for 3D and VA-API video playback partially. :)

cheers.

Going to give a look at new psb_gfx you released in ppa.. i need to install another oneiric on a spare partition to not touch the working one.

With the end of Meego project (and birth of new one) I'd hope emgd will continue to be developed (or merged in some way with other drivers).

Gma500 users must always suffer, this seems the motto :)

[grege]

@Luca,

Hey mate, I've re-synced git tree for psb_gfx again! ;)
then today I've uploaded new revision:
https://launchpad.net/~tista/+archive/psb-gfx-daily/+build/2842536

But I didn't test it yet, so I want someone who may try to dive into bleeding edge!!

cheers.

Tista

Hi Tista,

My Dell Mini 12 has Oneiric Xubuntu installed running VESA. I removed all the EMGD stuff after the upgrade as it would not function (yet). I have Plymouth fix applied. I installed the psb_gfx deb and the module built against the kernel. I can modprobe it, but so far X will not start.

I will keep trying. I think there is some residual xorg stuff from the EMGD setup that might need removing.
Edit 1:
following your instructions here
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10766450&postcount=3866
I end up with a black screen, ie no backlight, and the machine does not get far into the boot process.

If I boot to a command line it modesets and then with startx , X will start and it sets the correct screen resolution

Any suggestions? I do not use this notebook anymore so I am happy to stuff it up anyway needed.

[tista]

Going to give a look at new psb_gfx you released in ppa.. i need to install another oneiric on a spare partition to not touch the working one.

With the end of Meego project (and birth of new one) I'd hope emgd will continue to be developed (or merged in some way with other drivers).

Gma500 users must always suffer, this seems the motto :)

@Luca,

Agreed.
EMGD must be continued to be developed.

And today MID kernel stuff partially were merged into linux-next and standard 3.x, so I might cleanup some headers included in my package for Oneiric and/or Precise. especially drm_gem and drm_vm,,, since my package uses such headers to use future gem functions. ;)

cheers.

[tista]

Hi Tista,

My Dell Mini 12 has Oneiric Xubuntu installed running VESA. I removed all the EMGD stuff after the upgrade as it would not function (yet). I have Plymouth fix applied. I installed the psb_gfx deb and the module built against the kernel. I can modprobe it, but so far X will not start.

I will keep trying. I think there is some residual xorg stuff from the EMGD setup that might need removing.

Hi grege,

As I say, first you guys could try it in similar way like the previous psb_gfx's fixes... so some tweaks might be needed, umm,,, plymouth fix, initramfs or modules fixes, xorg.conf fixes, and/or so...

As I remembered well, I've written the instructions for early psb_gfx, but I forgot where I posted, sorry. ;)

cheers.

[bigfootnmd]

Hi,

This morning I booted up my Acer Aspire A0751 and was immediately notified that 11.10 was available. In my early morning Haze I chose upgrade. If I had been more awake I would have recalled that I can never UPGRADE with a netbook that has the INTEL GMA 500 graphics chip. Now, all I get is the ubuntu 11.1 splash screen and nothing ever happens after that.

So, I have looked around in this thread and so far I have not found a solution. I recall in the past that you could change a config file to the one that is tagged .failsafe but I don't remember where that is.

So, how can I load working drivers from the command prompt or some how edit or switch a config file so I at least I can boot to the GUI and then, maybe load the new drivers or kernel or whatever miracle will solve my problem.

Thank you in advance.

[grege]

Hi grege,

As I say, first you guys could try it in similar way like the previous psb_gfx's fixes... so some tweaks might be needed, umm,,, plymouth fix, initramfs or modules fixes, xorg.conf fixes, and/or so...

As I remembered well, I've written the instructions for early psb_gfx, but I forgot where I posted, sorry. ;)

cheers.

I edited my original post with the results of further experimentation.

following your instructions from an early post ...

I end up with a black screen, ie no backlight, and the machine does not get far into the boot process.

If I boot to a command line it modesets and then with startx , X will start and it sets the correct screen resolution

That is it so far.

ps it has blocked the sound chip entirely, the system does not recognize it's existence.

[TakeLifeEasy]

Yikes, it has been a while since I visited this thread, it is so long, I cannot seem to find the status on 11.10.

Can someone tell me if it is now working on 11.10 using Gnome 3 shell (not bothered about Unity).

I have Dell Mini 10.

Many thanks.

[thopiekar]

Hi,

This morning I booted up my Acer Aspire A0751 and was immediately notified that 11.10 was available. In my early morning Haze I chose upgrade. If I had been more awake I would have recalled that I can never UPGRADE with a netbook that has the INTEL GMA 500 graphics chip. Now, all I get is the ubuntu 11.1 splash screen and nothing ever happens after that.

So, I have looked around in this thread and so far I have not found a solution. I recall in the past that you could change a config file to the one that is tagged .failsafe but I don't remember where that is.

So, how can I load working drivers from the command prompt or some how edit or switch a config file so I at least I can boot to the GUI and then, maybe load the new drivers or kernel or whatever miracle will solve my problem.

Thank you in advance.

Switch to tty1 or try the failsave boot. Then check via
sudo apt-get install -f
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
if your upgrade is really done.
Depending on the desktop you can check for packages (here KDE), you need to get a minimal desktop system.
sudo apt-get install kdm plasma-netbook
or
sudo apt-get install kdm plasma-desktop

[thopiekar]

Yikes, it has been a while since I visited this thread, it is so long, I cannot seem to find the status on 11.10.

Can someone tell me if it is now working on 11.10 using Gnome 3 shell (not bothered about Unity).

I have Dell Mini 10.

Many thanks.

Try not to use a desktop which uses OpenGL got here at the moment problems with OpenGL.
Here for example mythTV with EMGD (http://t.co/Znm58f2i) and on my PC with nvidia graphics (http://t.co/QGZCI3Qi). That's how it approx looks like when using a openGL enabled desktop.

PS: LXDE will work ok and the hildon-desktop I work on.

[tista]

I edited my original post with the results of further experimentation.

following your instructions from an early post ...

I end up with a black screen, ie no backlight, and the machine does not get far into the boot process.

If I boot to a command line it modesets and then with startx , X will start and it sets the correct screen resolution

That is it so far.

ps it has blocked the sound chip entirely, the system does not recognize it's existence.

OK...

I've seen such ugly situations when we had shifted to 2.6.39 from 2.6.38..
I could suggest "disabling vt.handoff feature".

see this file:
/etc/grub/10_linux
and follow the line 70: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="$GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT vt.handoff=7"

then remove that term "vt.handoff=7" and update-grub.

please give it a try... ;)

cheers.

[thopiekar]

OK...

I've seen such ugly situations when we had shifted to 2.6.39 from 2.6.38..
I could suggest "disabling vt.handoff feature".

see this file:
/etc/grub/10_linux
and follow the line 70: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="$GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT vt.handoff=7"

then remove that term "vt.handoff=7" and update-grub.

please give it a try... ;)

cheers.

or search for vt.handoff in /etc/default/grub

[bigfootnmd]

UPDATE TO POST


Originally Posted by bigfootnmd View Post
Hi,

This morning I booted up my Acer Aspire A0751 and was immediately notified that 11.10 was available. In my early morning Haze I chose upgrade. If I had been more awake I would have recalled that I can never UPGRADE with a netbook that has the INTEL GMA 500 graphics chip. Now, all I get is the ubuntu 11.1 splash screen and nothing ever happens after that.

So, I have looked around in this thread and so far I have not found a solution. I recall in the past that you could change a config file to the one that is tagged .failsafe but I don't remember where that is.

So, how can I load working drivers from the command prompt or some how edit or switch a config file so I at least I can boot to the GUI and then, maybe load the new drivers or kernel or whatever miracle will solve my problem.

Please note that I use the GNOME desktop. Also, perhaps it is not clear what I mean by
'all I get is the Ubuntu 11.10 splash screen'
This means that the upgrade is fully loaded, and at boot up I get the screen that says Ubuntu 11.10 with the moving dots and nothing happens after that.

Also, I have tried to load 11.10 from a USB stick created by the Startup disk creator in Ubuntu 11.04 and this hangs on 'loading cups printer drivers.

So, what I am looking for is to either do a clean install of 11.10 from USB (netbooks do not have CD drives) or somehow from a command prompt enable the failsafe video config. Also I do not get or know how to get a failsafe boot option.

Thank you in advance.



Switch to tty1 or try the failsave boot. Then check via
sudo apt-get install -f
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
if your upgrade is really done.
Depending on the desktop you can check for packages (here KDE), you need to get a minimal desktop system.
sudo apt-get install kdm plasma-netbook
or
sudo apt-get install kdm plasma-desktop

[metallus]

to bigfootnmd: you can switch to tty1 by pressing: ctrl+alt+F1 . enter your login credentials (you should see a text-based login dialog).

[bigfootnmd]

Thank you.
Now here are the results

sudo apt-get install -f
Reading packages Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded

sudo apt-get dist-uprgade
Reading package lists Done
Building dependency tree
Reading State information
Calculating upgrade Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed o to remove and o not upgraded.


As I have said when the pop up came up announcing that 11.1 was here and giving the choice of do not upgrade upgrade or remind me later I chose UPGRADE.

I had the Intel drivers loaded in 11.04.
I upgraded from 11.04 and now all I get after I choose the current 11.10 choice from grub is a freeze Ubuntu splash screen (moving dots) that freezes.

I have tried to install 11.1 from a USB stick and this process gets as far as disabling Unix SYstem V comparability. It goes no further.

So, clearly I have 11.10 loaded on my ACER laptop that has the INTEL GMA 500 chip.

So, what can I do now?

If chose previous version of Linux (11.04) that gives me the ubuntu splash screen that freezes.

So, short of taking a sledge hammer to my netbook, I will be grateful for any additional ideas.



I have tried booting into

[grege]

then remove that term "vt.handoff=7" and update-grub.

please give it a try... ;)

cheers.

Yes that worked. I can boot normally to GDM, with Plymouth disabled.

I will try re-enabling Plymouth and see what happens.

EDIT 1: Activating Plymouth does not work, it hangs after a few moments.
EDIT 2: LightDM does not work, it flashes on and off and never starts properly. GDM works fine.
EDIT 3: And my sound is back.

[catslaugh]

I'm using psb_gfx on a Dell Mini 12, with the release Oneiric i386 (following the instructions to disable the vt handoff). When it starts from lightdm, the display is in 1280×800 mode, but the cursor is confined to the top half of the screen and updates from the bottom half of the screen show up in the top half. I switched to the console and ran sudo service lightdm stop. Running sudo Xorg -configure fails outright, but everything works just fine when I run startx. Comparing the Xorg.0.log from the lightdm run and the startx run, the main difference is that under lightdm, it says

(++) using VT number 7
and under startx,
(--) using VT number 8

Later,

(II) XKB: reuse xkmfile /var/lib/xkb/server-B20D7FC79C7F597315E3E501AEF10E0D866E8E92.xkm
vs.
(II) XKB: generating xkmfile /tmp/server-B20D7FC79C7F597315E3E501AEF10E0D866E8E92.xkm

Otherwise, the files are identical until the startx file starts talking about generating the xkmfile again. I’ve attached all three logs.

[PilotPaul]

Try not to use a desktop which uses OpenGL got here at the moment problems with OpenGL.
Here for example mythTV with EMGD (http://t.co/Znm58f2i) and on my PC with nvidia graphics (http://t.co/QGZCI3Qi). That's how it approx looks like when using a openGL enabled desktop.

PS: LXDE will work ok and the hildon-desktop I work on.

Thomas I have the same problem with EMGD 1.8 on both Natty and Oneiric. Best solution I can come up with for the time being is to start using "mythfrontend -O UIpainter=qt" to force the frontend to use qt instead of opengl. I assume this is a problem with the EMGD OpenGL implementation - maybe next version (when Intel get around to it!) will improve things.

[grege]

I'm using psb_gfx on a Dell Mini 12, with the release Oneiric i386 (following the instructions to disable the vt handoff). When it starts from lightdm, the display is in 1280×800 mode, but the cursor is confined to the top half of the screen and updates from the bottom half of the screen show up in the top half.

Hi, I have a Mini 12 as well running Xubuntu Oneiric i386 and I removed LightDM and used GDM in it's place and my desktop functions correctly. I also tried removing all DMs and did a character login and startx and that worked as well.

So, maybe install GDM and do a "sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm" and set gdm as the default and reboot and see what happens.

Just to complicate things my Xubuntu is an upgrade from natty. I removed all the EMGD files and had it running VESA before trying this.

cheers

[thopiekar]

Thanks PilotPaul!

Found a cleaner way disabling plymouth..
Add as vt.handoff=7 also noplymouth to your /etc/default/grub :)

[Abryp]

Greetings! I have AO751h (yeah, with GMA500) and i am about to install fresh 11.10 xubuntu distro. Will i have a hope that all gonna be fine, if i follow these instructions http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1792777? Does it helped other AO751h owners?

[thopiekar]

I now installed OpenSuSE 11.4 + old psb on my ASUS T91.. Works well no configuration needed. Hope the full featured psb_gfx drivers will be released soon :)
Actually I need a solid solution while I want to use the netbook for my researches in the university.
It just has to work!

Has someone noticed the problem removing the emgd-support-autoconfiguration package? I have.. because of logrotated it can't find the DMI and fails to remove.. just reboot and try again.

About my EMGD problem, here the dmesg: http://paste.ubuntu.com/709043

[bigfootnmd]

[QUOTE=bigfootnmd;11346994]UPDATE TO POST
Gang,

I have given up trying to fix or figure out what the underlying problem is with my Acer Aspire A0751 netbook.

Instead I have wiped all partitions with GPARTED and I am preparing to start from scratch.

[jbernardo]

UPDATE TO POST
Gang,

I have given up trying to fix or figure out what the underlying problem is with my Acer Aspire A0751 netbook.

Instead I have wiped all partitions with GPARTED and I am preparing to start from scratch.
Well, on my eeepc 1101HA I still have the oneiric cd (usb key) hanging at the end. I even tried with another HD, the original 1GB RAM (which i had replaced with a 2GB stick) and nothing. I'll try with the alternate cd tomorrow, to see if at least it boots into a command prompt.

[bigfootnmd]

Hello,

I have good news. I downloaded the alternate 386 ISO (which as we know is text based) and I made a start up disk on my USB stick.
Ubuntu 11.10 is loaded on my Acer Aspire A0751h. The Display is set at 1024 X 768 and the driver is 'unknown.'

For now after two days of struggle I am content.

However, in a day or so I may want to load the GMA 500 specific drivers.

What would be really nice is a single post or updated wiki that covers how to load the best and current working drivers of the Poulsbo Intel GMA 500 chip. I looked in the Ocelot Testing thread and I really can't find a definitive posting.
Since I have been without my Netbook for two days I don't want to mess it up.

The Hardware Wiki page often referenced in this thread has not been updated to show what works with 11.10.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo/

Are we to assume that everything that worked with Natty (11.04) also works with 11.10?
I for one do not want to take that risk. Especially after having my Netbook being a paper weight for two days.
How about a single posting that tells us which drivers work in 11.10 and how to install them.
Why not update the WIKI page also? I do understand that we are all volunteers here but, if I had been able to find information that clearly showed which of the drivers worked with 11.10 I would have had my Netbook running a lot sooner.



Thanks

[lucazade]

Hi guys

I've a little present for you...
I've modified Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10 livecd and added EMGD support directly into iso..
so drivers, tweaks and xorg (backported) are already installed and available out of the box.

I made this iso because there were a lot of issues to simply start and install oneiric and to install drivers, so this iso should help someone.
It's a first trial, obviously, it can be improved if necessary, for now i've tried only using a live session, haven't installed yet (it should work!).

I forgot to disable Unity3D so first time you start the livecd You'll get a half-baked Unity-3d session (fully trasparent top panel and invisible side dock).. anyway you can easily logout from the session indicator and login in the fully working unity-2d :)

Note.. xorg.conf is created automatically at bootup in order to adapt to different netbooks (it is done via emgd-xorg-conf tool).

now i need to upload this iso, 750mb.. any hint for free decent hosting w/o traffic restrictions ???

[Ozone77]

Hi guys

now i need to upload this iso, 750mb.. any hint for free decent hosting w/o traffic restrictions ???

Thanks! That sounds great!!!
How about a torrent?

[catslaugh]

Weirder and weirder. I tried switching to gdm, and had a similar problem as with lightdm (though the screen wraparound point was different). I logged out, intending to shut down the display manager before running startx, and gdm came up cleanly. I logged in, and everything was fine. So I switched back to lightdm, and got the same behavior: the first login has screwed-up video, and everything is fine after the first logout.

Is there some cleanup routine executed by the X server on exit that is paving the way for everything to work properly when the display manager starts a new one?

[jbernardo]

now i need to upload this iso, 750mb.. any hint for free decent hosting w/o traffic restrictions ???
I usually use multiupload, which then distributes to various services and itself. Multiupload doesn't have restrictions, some of the services it distributes to have restrictions for files over 1GB only.
Just register (if you want to later manage the files you've uploaded), upload and the file is available from a few mirrors.

[lucazade]

I usually use multiupload, which then distributes to various services and itself. Multiupload doesn't have restrictions, some of the services it distributes to have restrictions for files over 1GB only.
Just register (if you want to later manage the files you've uploaded), upload and the file is available from a few mirrors.

nice service.. uploading there.
4 hours left, damned upload bandwidth :)

[PilotPaul]

Anyone had any luck getting suspend/resume to work with Acer 751h + EMGD? I can get mine to suspend but then no keyboard inputs seem to be recognised and so I can't get it to wake up again...

[lucazade]

Anyone had any luck getting suspend/resume to work with Acer 751h + EMGD? I can get mine to suspend but then no keyboard inputs seem to be recognised and so I can't get it to wake up again...

it is an issue with kernel 3.x.... if you use 2.6.38 you can suspend

[lucazade]

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric with EMGD drivers support out-of-the-box

http://www.multiupload.com/S5XQD23I54

First trial of doing a spinoff of Ubuntu with emgd on board, so things may be improved, I just need your feedbacks.

At the moment I've only tried it as livecd on a Acer AO751H, I haven't installed yet because I've already a working Oneiric and I should partition my hd again (i'll do it asap).

It should work for all netbooks with gma500 and already identified in emgd-xorg-conf package (most are already included, if your it is not let us know).

Notes and todo for possible next iso builds:
* unity-3d is not working good (invisibile top panel and sidebar), it is a known issue of emgd. We could purge directly from the cd. (Unity-2d instead is working good, just do a logout to use it once installed on hd)
* keyboard layout is EN because of xorg 1.9 downgrade needed by emgd. Once installed on hd switch your keyboard layout if different from EN (go to gnome control center -> keyboard layout -> add new language and purge old EN -> reboot and enjoy)
* xorg.conf (now really in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-emgd.conf) is autogenerated at distro startup if 10-emgd.conf file is not already present in the system. Worked good here, let me know if requires fixes.
* plymouth is disabled because conflicts with lightdm (removed init script, we can use also noplymouth kernel option)
* k/x/l/ubuntu iso on request.

ciao

[jbernardo]

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric with EMGD drivers support out-of-the-box

http://www.multiupload.com/S5XQD23I54

First trial of doing a spinoff of Ubuntu with emgd on board, so things may be improved, I just need your feedbacks.

At the moment I've only tried it as livecd on a Acer AO751H, I haven't installed yet because I've already a working Oneiric and I should partition my hd again (i'll do it asap).

It should work for all netbooks with gma500 and already identified in emgd-xorg-conf package (most are already included, if your it is not let us know).

Notes and todo for possible next iso builds:
* unity-3d is not working good (invisibile top panel and sidebar), it is a known issue of emgd. We could purge directly from the cd. (Unity-2d instead is working good, just do a logout to use it once installed on hd)
* keyboard layout is EN because of xorg 1.9 downgrade needed by emgd. Once installed on hd switch your keyboard layout if different from EN (go to gnome control center -> keyboard layout -> add new language and purge old EN -> reboot and enjoy)
* xorg.conf (now really in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-emgd.conf) is autogenerated at distro startup if 10-emgd.conf file is not already present in the system. Worked good here, let me know if requires fixes.
* plymouth is disabled because conflicts with lightdm (removed init script, we can use also noplymouth kernel option)
* k/x/l/ubuntu iso on request.

ciao

Thanks Luca!
I'll try this one, if it boots on my 1101HA I'll ask you for the kubuntu variant... :)

[grege]

@lucazade

Hi, I made a USB startup and booted my Dell Mini 12 and it failed.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/bin/emgd-xorg-conf:, line 327, in <module>
mkSubScreen(current_device[1]),
File "/bin/emgd-xorg-conf", line 277, in mkSubScreen
EndSubSection\n""" % (subsec[1], subsec[0])
IndexError: list index out of range

Which I think is the same error I got when I activated the PPA and tried to install the three packages.

Greg

[stevensj]

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric with EMGD drivers support out-of-the-box

http://www.multiupload.com/S5XQD23I54

First trial of doing a spinoff of Ubuntu with emgd on board, so things may be improved, I just need your feedbacks.

ciao

Hi Luca,

I downloaded your .iso and installed it on a Dell Mini 10. I didn't have a spare partition, so I installed to an 8 Gb SD card in the card reader slot. Here are some observations:

- booting Installation USB worked, with error text about wifi driver appearing on the console.
- installation screen was correct resolution
- installation went smoothly, but seemed quite slow (~45 minutes)
- booting up gives blank purple screen, then blank black screen, then goes to login screen. During that time, which is quite long, it seems like nothing is happening.
- on first login, I'm not sure if it defaulted to Unity2d or not. The sidebar etc. were all visible, but there were no shadows.
- I logged out, then back into 2d mode.
- everything seems to work, but is v e r y s l o o o o w.
- I think that it was faster running from the Installation USB than now. There is a big delay between clicking on the dash and it opening. Things like software updates take forever. I don't know if this is due to running from the SD card. How do you get a system monitor applet in Unity?
- The machine suspends, with a pulsing power LED, but will not come back to life.
- The brightness keys move the brightness level indicator, but the screen brightness stays the same.
- Installed ubuntu-restricted-extras and VLC. In VLC, videos give sound but a black screen. Totem just hangs.
- General internet browsing and scrolling seem slick and smooth.
- Trying different resolutions of X-Men First Class Trailer: 720p is unwatchable, but 360p is reasonable.

Thank you for making this work. In general, it seems pretty good, although I will wait a while before upgrading from 10.10 + psb on the main partition.

Are there any more tests / output that would be helpful?

Cheers
John

[lucazade]

Hi Luca,

I downloaded your .iso and installed it on a Dell Mini 10. I didn't have a spare partition, so I installed to an 8 Gb SD card in the card reader slot. Here are some observations:

- booting Installation USB worked, with error text about wifi driver appearing on the console.
- installation screen was correct resolution
- installation went smoothly, but seemed quite slow (~45 minutes)
- booting up gives blank purple screen, then blank black screen, then goes to login screen. During that time, which is quite long, it seems like nothing is happening.
- on first login, I'm not sure if it defaulted to Unity2d or not. The sidebar etc. were all visible, but there were no shadows.
- I logged out, then back into 2d mode.
- everything seems to work, but is v e r y s l o o o o w.
- I think that it was faster running from the Installation USB than now. There is a big delay between clicking on the dash and it opening. Things like software updates take forever. I don't know if this is due to running from the SD card. How do you get a system monitor applet in Unity?
- The machine suspends, with a pulsing power LED, but will not come back to life.
- The brightness keys move the brightness level indicator, but the screen brightness stays the same.
- Installed ubuntu-restricted-extras and VLC. In VLC, videos give sound but a black screen. Totem just hangs.
- General internet browsing and scrolling seem slick and smooth.
- Trying different resolutions of X-Men First Class Trailer: 720p is unwatchable, but 360p is reasonable.

Thank you for making this work. In general, it seems pretty good, although I will wait a while before upgrading from 10.10 + psb on the main partition.

Are there any more tests / output that would be helpful?

Cheers
John

hi.. tnx for the feedback.
i need some logs to check if emgd is running properly.. could you paste these files on both livecd and installed oneiric?

/var/log/Xorg.0.log
/var/log/dmesg
/var/log/syslog
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-emgd.conf

about your notes:
- wifi driver error is something related to your dell, no ideas because i don't see it on my acer.. paste the warning to understand better
- installation time seems a bit long, i've to check it locally
- suspend is broken because of kernel 3.0... difficult to fix, better to wait kernel 3.1
- brightness here is working good on acer, probably dell need some fix.. maybe someone here has some experience with it.
- video playback is normally slow.. we need to port mplayer-vaapi to oneiric to get hd playback
- unity-2d here is fast.. anyway let me check your logs i asked before

[lucazade]

@lucazade

Hi, I made a USB startup and booted my Dell Mini 12 and it failed.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/bin/emgd-xorg-conf:, line 327, in <module>
mkSubScreen(current_device[1]),
File "/bin/emgd-xorg-conf", line 277, in mkSubScreen
EndSubSection\n""" % (subsec[1], subsec[0])
IndexError: list index out of range

Which I think is the same error I got when I activated the PPA and tried to install the three packages.

Greg

wot.. strange.. where do you get this? during bootup??
@thopiekar... any ideas?

[jbernardo]

I'm still out of luck with your live iso. Still fails with a kernel panic which scrolls out of the screen... :( Time to try now the alternate install iso.

[grege]

wot.. strange.. where do you get this? during bootup??
@thopiekar... any ideas?

Hi Luca,

When I boot from the LiveCD that is the last thing before it hangs. I have Xunubtu 11.10 installed running psb-gfx, but tried using PPA on my installed Xubuntu - that is the same error that I get when I install emgd-xorg-conf and then run it (prior to installing psb_gfx).

The kernel module built and installed and I tried creating an xorg.conf using X -configure to sidestep the above issue but it did not work.

ps
It all worked fine with Xubuntu 11.04 and EMGD

[ddumanis]

Live CD runs, but upon running "Try Ubuntu," boots into the old (non-Unity) interface, really slow with lots of artifacts - and panels are missing.

For this reason, haven't installed to HD yet. (I have an ASUS 1201HAB for what it's worth.)

11.04 with EMGD is working great. Thanks for all your work.

[lucazade]

Live CD runs, but upon running "Try Ubuntu," boots into the old (non-Unity) interface, really slow with lots of artifacts - and panels are missing.

For this reason, haven't installed to HD yet. (I have an ASUS 1201HAB for what it's worth.)

11.04 with EMGD is working great. Thanks for all your work.

artifacts because you were running unity-3d in the live session and emgd doesn't support it, it is a known bug of drivers.
only unity-2d works properly, the same was in 11.04.

[ddumanis]

Makes sense, any way to try without installing but without Unity-3D? Or do you just have to go for it and install?

[stevensj]

hi.. tnx for the feedback.
i need some logs to check if emgd is running properly..

about your notes:
- installation time seems a bit long, i've to check it locally
- suspend is broken because of kernel 3.0... difficult to fix, better to wait kernel 3.1
- unity-2d here is fast.. anyway let me check your logs i asked before

Hi Luca, here are the logs for the installed version.

/var/log/Xorg.0.log
http://paste.ubuntu.com/712403/
/var/log/dmesg
http://paste.ubuntu.com/712406/
/var/log/syslog
http://paste.ubuntu.com/712407/
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-emgd.conf
http://paste.ubuntu.com/712409/

The main issue is the slowness. Booting takes over a minute (35 seconds blank purple screen, 40 seconds black screen) to get to login. Then it takes another few minutes for everything else to load e.g. network etc. This might be a result of running from an SD card, but I thought that they were supposed to be really fast to access.

Once everything is up and running then scrolling webpages and hiding/unhiding the dash are smooth and quick.

I also noticed that the webcam worked when it asked to take a picture during installation, as I could see myself in the image, but the picture that it took was a black screen.

Re: suspend. Do you know how long it is until kernel 3.1?

Thanks again for all your help.

[lucazade]

Hi Luca, here are the logs for the installed version.

/var/log/Xorg.0.log
http://paste.ubuntu.com/712403/
/var/log/dmesg
http://paste.ubuntu.com/712406/
/var/log/syslog
http://paste.ubuntu.com/712407/
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-emgd.conf
http://paste.ubuntu.com/712409/

The main issue is the slowness. Booting takes over a minute (35 seconds blank purple screen, 40 seconds black screen) to get to login. Then it takes another few minutes for everything else to load e.g. network etc. This might be a result of running from an SD card, but I thought that they were supposed to be really fast to access.

Once everything is up and running then scrolling webpages and hiding/unhiding the dash are smooth and quick.

I also noticed that the webcam worked when it asked to take a picture during installation, as I could see myself in the image, but the picture that it took was a black screen.

Re: suspend. Do you know how long it is until kernel 3.1?

Thanks again for all your help.

logs are ok.. emgd is installed correctly and xorg configuration is ok.

now, i'm wondering why you get a so slow bootup.. here is about 30/40 sec on a normal hd to get full desktop.
i'm wondering if depends on this modified liveiso or some incompatibilities with ssd, i have to install it locally.

about 3.1 and suspend I don't know any date unfortunately.

[thopiekar]

hey Luca:) Should we add "noplymouth" to autoconfiguration?

Well as you can see in the error message there is a list with configuration for your device, which does not fit.

Use emgd-xorg-send to pastebin all info I need. Don't forget to visit the link and validate that the paste the script made is not spam. Finally post the link here, thanks!

PS: o.O! emgd-xorg-conf is also available on AUR? Didn't remember someone told me he wants to maintain it there..

[thopiekar]

btw. I think you use UCK for creating the livecd's.. You can remove Unity3D there by default while purging all unity packages except of unity-2d.

[ddumanis]

OK, took the plunge and installed the Oneiric remix CD... mostly works great but the text is a little "fuzzy" after doing updates. (It was clear in 11.04.) Maybe shouldn't have done the updates! Any way to fix?

Thanks again!
Dave

[lucazade]

hey Luca:) Should we add "noplymouth" to autoconfiguration?

Well as you can see in the error message there is a list with configuration for your device, which does not fit.

Use emgd-xorg-send to pastebin all info I need. Don't forget to visit the link and validate that the paste the script made is not spam. Finally post the link here, thanks!

PS: o.O! emgd-xorg-conf is also available on AUR? Didn't remember someone told me he wants to maintain it there..

agree for noplymouth..

about this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/bin/emgd-xorg-conf:, line 327, in <module>
mkSubScreen(current_device[1]),
File "/bin/emgd-xorg-conf", line 277, in mkSubScreen
EndSubSection\n""" % (subsec[1], subsec[0])
IndexError: list index out of range

means Dell Mini 12 is not included in emgd-xorg-conf? In case Grege needs to send you data and infos?

and yes in next iso build i'll purge unity-3d

[lucazade]

OK, took the plunge and installed the Oneiric remix CD... mostly works great but the text is a little "fuzzy" after doing updates. (It was clear in 11.04.) Maybe shouldn't have done the updates! Any way to fix?

Thanks again!
Dave

ah great.. if you are referring to splash screen, now in oneiric with a fuzzy text, well it is something we can't fix at the moment.. there is a conflict between the splashscreen plymouth and the loginscreen lightdm.

[thopiekar]

well, it means that the device is available in emgd-xorg-conf, but it's lists are malformed. here it says that the 'list index is out range', means that the subsec list has no item at [1] or even [0]. A report would be very useful, thats why I created that script.

[grege]

well, it means that the device is available in emgd-xorg-conf, but it's lists are malformed. here it says that the 'list index is out range', means that the subsec list has no item at [1] or even [0]. A report would be very useful, thats why I created that script.

Just tell me what you need. The script work Ok for 11.04.

EDIT: I did a clean install of Xubuntu 11.10 and reformatted HDD. It ran as VESA. I added the PPA and as expected everything worked up until the emgd-xorg-conf failed. I manually copy the old 10-emgd.conf from 11.04 into /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and rebooted and it is now running fine with EMGD. So everything works with the Dell Mini 12, except the emgd-xorg-conf script.

I also disabled Plymouth, not absolutely sure it was necessary, but it did hang two times in a row, after removal it boots to LightDM.

[thopiekar]

just execute
emgd-xorg-send
in a terminal, visit the link, validate the paste there and post the link from the terminal after that here.

[ddumanis]

ah great.. if you are referring to splash screen, now in oneiric with a fuzzy text, well it is something we can't fix at the moment.. there is a conflict between the splashscreen plymouth and the loginscreen lightdm.

No, sorry, not splash screen - I mean all text, all the time. There is just a fuzzy/vibrating look to the graphics. Not super dramatic but enough to make the Asus 1201HAB unusable.

Also, I did a little more work and it is not dependent on doing updates - the fuzzy/vibrating look happens as soon as the live CD starts running, and is also present on the HD install of course.

For now, switching back to 11.04, which is working great with your fixes. Thanks again for these fixes.

[grege]

just execute
emgd-xorg-send
in a terminal, visit the link, validate the paste there and post the link from the terminal after that here.

Hi Thomas,

Where do I find emgd-xorg-send? I have looked through the PPAs and see mention of it, but not the script itself.

greg

[grege]

For Dell Mini 12 owners wanting to use Oneiric.

I installed a clean Xubuntu using the Alternate (character) install image. I tried a dist-upgrade and it did not work for me.
Sound was crackly, but fixed by editing /etc/pulse/default.pa and adding tsched=o to the line load-module module-udev-detect.

I added the EMGD 1.8 PPA and followed the instructions. The driver installed but emgd-xorg-conf failed and made a zero byte file called 10-emgd.conf in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/

I copied in the config from my 11.04 install and rebooted and it boots up and runs properly. I also disabled Plymouth.

The keyboard brightness keys are functional. emgdui does not run, but as the keyboard works that is no biggy. The touchpad is also working with scrolling and tap.

So to get it all working all you need to do is wait for a fix or manually add 10-emgd.conf <<-- It has been fixed for the Mini 12 so all good now

If anyone wants the config I will paste the contents here so you can cut and paste.

cheers

Edit: I just tried to hibernate by changing settings and the closing lid. I re-opened lid and pressed power button and after about 15 secs I got the unlock screen dialog then back to where it was. So, it does resume from hibernate. Only a single test so I cannot yet know how reliable hibernate/resume is, but it did work.
Edit2: Cpu frequency scaling is also working properly.

[serkho]

I'm trying to use framebuffer on Vaio P39 with Natty now. I got the native resolution but stuck with backlight (keys are working but brightness does not change).
Neither xbacklight nor writing into /sys/class/backlight/sony/brightness help.

Do the drivers support backlight at all? I did acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor with no luck too.

[thopiekar]

emgd-xorg-send is part of the emgd-xorg-conf branch and the emgd-xorg-conf package..

[grege]

emgd-xorg-send is part of the emgd-xorg-conf branch and the emgd-xorg-conf package..

http://pastebin.com/VuwTy4rP

[badook]

is the wiki outdated? (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo/)
Also I think a new thread should be started! This one still has the configuration of ubuntu 10.10 as the first post!
Anyway thank you for making my pc usable!!! :)

[thopiekar]

http://pastebin.com/VuwTy4rP

That's something I can work with! Thanks!

[thopiekar]

Fixed as you can find here: https://code.launchpad.net/~gma500/+junk/emgd-xorg-conf

Changelog rev28:
fixed problem with a Dell device
added 2D switch
fixed DMI problem when dmesg is logrotated

You can now disable 3D and vaapi via:
sudo emgd-xorg-conf 2D
or check how it is generated via:
emgd-xorg-conf 2D

PS: the recipe build: https://code.launchpad.net/~gma500/+archive/emgd-fix/+recipebuild/104919

[rapiertg]

Sorted all of my problems.

Sold my netbook to a Windows fanboy. Bought Acer AO722.

Just wanted to thank all of people that tried to make this harware usable.

[PilotPaul]

Must confess I've been tempted to give up on the 751h a few times - how does the 722 compare performance-wise? Any issues running Ubuntu? Xmas is coming and maybe I can convince Mrs. PP to buy me a new Netbook (or at least get Santa to bring one! lol)!

Then again after all we've been through with this goddamned chipset it would feel like giving in...and I hate to give in!

Anybody know when EMGD 2.0 is out??

Cheers

[thopiekar]

Must confess I've been tempted to give up on the 751h a few times - how does the 722 compare performance-wise? Any issues running Ubuntu? Xmas is coming and maybe I can convince Mrs. PP to buy me a new Netbook (or at least get Santa to bring one! lol)!

Then again after all we've been through with this goddamned chipset it would feel like giving in...and I hate to give in!

Anybody know when EMGD 2.0 is out??

Cheers

Well, Tista could maybe help you with that.. he collected different xorg.conf's in the past, but not the DMI's afaik..

[_Thoth_]

For any linux newbies, like myself, I've found an excellent method that worked for me on my Habey BIS-6620I with US15W SCH chipset, GMA 500 + Atom Z510. This is just to get Karmic working properly after two weeks of trying everything suggested in this and other forums.

www.fit-pc2.com/wiki/index.php/Installing_Ubuntu_9.10

Sorry for budging in, but thought it might help any frustrated newbies to this whole mess.

This community is just plain amazing at figuring stuff like this out.

[bigfootnmd]

is the wiki outdated? (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo/)
Also I think a new thread should be started! This one still has the configuration of ubuntu 10.10 as the first post!
Anyway thank you for making my pc usable!!! :)

YES this WIKI is outdated as I pointed out several pages ago.

[thopiekar]

For any linux newbies, like myself, I've found an excellent method that worked for me on my Habey BIS-6620I with US15W SCH chipset, GMA 500 + Atom Z510. This is just to get Karmic working properly after two weeks of trying everything suggested in this and other forums.

www.fit-pc2.com/wiki/index.php/Installing_Ubuntu_9.10

Sorry for budging in, but thought it might help any frustrated newbies to this whole mess.

This community is just plain amazing at figuring stuff like this out.

More interesting would be, if there would be a way to use the old psb-driver on oneiric.. I think I'll invest some time in it.

[Dellmini1010]

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric with EMGD drivers support out-of-the-box

http://www.multiupload.com/S5XQD23I54

First trial of doing a spinoff of Ubuntu with emgd on board, so things may be improved, I just need your feedbacks.

At the moment I've only tried it as livecd on a Acer AO751H, I haven't installed yet because I've already a working Oneiric and I should partition my hd again (i'll do it asap).

It should work for all netbooks with gma500 and already identified in emgd-xorg-conf package (most are already included, if your it is not let us know).

Notes and todo for possible next iso builds:
* unity-3d is not working good (invisibile top panel and sidebar), it is a known issue of emgd. We could purge directly from the cd. (Unity-2d instead is working good, just do a logout to use it once installed on hd)
* keyboard layout is EN because of xorg 1.9 downgrade needed by emgd. Once installed on hd switch your keyboard layout if different from EN (go to gnome control center -> keyboard layout -> add new language and purge old EN -> reboot and enjoy)
* xorg.conf (now really in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-emgd.conf) is autogenerated at distro startup if 10-emgd.conf file is not already present in the system. Worked good here, let me know if requires fixes.
* plymouth is disabled because conflicts with lightdm (removed init script, we can use also noplymouth kernel option)
* k/x/l/ubuntu iso on request.

ciao

I wanted to thank you Lucazade for your nice little ISO. I was able to install it on my Dell Inspiron mini 1010 and it is working great. ( once I set it to 2D mode ;) I did however have one item that I had a question on not sure who might know the answer to. It doesnt seem find the HDMI connection when I connect it to an external monitor. Any Ideas?

Thanks Again.

[thopiekar]

I wanted to thank you Lucazade for your nice little ISO. I was able to install it on my Dell Inspiron mini 1010 and it is working great. ( once I set it to 2D mode ;) I did however have one item that I had a question on not sure who might know the answer to. It doesnt seem find the HDMI connection when I connect it to an external monitor. Any Ideas?

Thanks Again.

You need to modify /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-emgd.conf to use the HDMI output. EMGD can't detect hardware, that's why we use emgd-xorg-conf. Have you ever used the old psb-driver? was it working there?

[ortunk]

Hi,

After reading tons of pages and a lot of google searches I managed to install Ubuntu 11.10 to my Asus 1101HA Netbook with EMGD drivers.

1. boot from standard install cd in live mode (F6) with "poulsbo.asd=1 psb_gfx.asd=1" added to kernel string
2. select install ubuntu from livecd
3. boot selecting unity-2d and install updates
4. make unity-2d default interface

sudo sed -i 's/user-session=ubuntu/user-session=ubuntu-2d/g' /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

5. perform emgd install and reboot

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gma500/emgd-1.8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xorg-emgd emgd-dkms
sudo emgd-xorg-conf

6. still won't boot so blacklist other modules and disable plymouth

sudo echo "# EMGD" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
sudo echo "blacklist psb_gfx" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
sudo echo "blacklist poulsbo" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
sudo echo "emgd" >> /etc/modules
sudo mv /etc/init/plymouth.conf /etc/init/plymouth.conf.disabled

now it works, sort of, here are my problems:

1. LibreOffice is way too slow, especially Calc
2. Playing videos from youtube, etc.. is impossible, sound sync is lost immediately
3. General performance of the system is kind-of slow, but within expected netbook range (I used have an older AspireOne, and it was a little better than 1101HA after the RAM upgrade)

Open to any suggestions on these matters....

Ciao guys and thanks for all the work on emgd drivers...

ortunk

[thopiekar]

Hi,

After reading tons of pages and a lot of google searches I managed to install Ubuntu 11.10 to my Asus 1101HA Netbook with EMGD drivers.

1. boot from standard install cd in live mode (F6) with "poulsbo.asd=1 psb_gfx.asd=1" added to kernel string
2. select install ubuntu from livecd
3. boot selecting unity-2d and install updates
4. make unity-2d default interface

sudo sed -i 's/user-session=ubuntu/user-session=ubuntu-2d/g' /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

5. perform emgd install and reboot

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gma500/emgd-1.8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xorg-emgd emgd-dkms
sudo emgd-xorg-conf

6. still won't boot so blacklist other modules and disable plymouth

sudo echo "# EMGD" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
sudo echo "blacklist psb_gfx" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
sudo echo "blacklist poulsbo" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
sudo echo "emgd" >> /etc/modules
sudo mv /etc/init/plymouth.conf /etc/init/plymouth.conf.disabled

now it works, sort of, here are my problems:

1. LibreOffice is way too slow, especially Calc
2. Playing videos from youtube, etc.. is impossible, sound sync is lost immediately
3. General performance of the system is kind-of slow, but within expected netbook range (I used have an older AspireOne, and it was a little better than 1101HA after the RAM upgrade)

Open to any suggestions on these matters....

Ciao guys and thanks for all the work on emgd drivers...

ortunk

emgd-support-autoconfiguration package will do the configuration for you..

Has nobody problems like me running the plasma desktop (KDE)?

PS: You'll find emgd-support* here: https://launchpad.net/~gma500/+archive/emgd-fix

[Ludalex]

Hi,

After reading tons of pages and a lot of google searches I managed to install Ubuntu 11.10 to my Asus 1101HA Netbook with EMGD drivers.

1. boot from standard install cd in live mode (F6) with

[......]

Why did you install 1.8 and not "fix" drivers? They seem more updated.

[Dellmini1010]

You need to modify /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-emgd.conf to use the HDMI output. EMGD can't detect hardware, that's why we use emgd-xorg-conf. Have you ever used the old psb-driver? was it working there?

Thank you for your reply thopiekar. The answer to both your questions is no. I am quite new to the Ubuntu/linux thing and my first install on the mini 1010 was the ubuntu netbook 10.10. I don't know that I ever got the system to display correctly in the first place. I know that the video didn't run smooth and the webcam didn't work right. Now both are working. I bought a new drive recently and thought I would try a fresh install to see if I could get it running better. After looking everywhere to find a solution for the video I found this thread. As I said I am still new to the Ubuntu experience, and any help pointing me in the right direction would be great appreciated. :)

Since this is a fresh install from the LiveCD that Lucazade posted, looking at the 10-emgd.conf file i can see alot of information. Do I need to run something to find my systems specific setup or is the file I am looking at, the one that was setup from the livecd install?

Thanks for the help.

[scubajeff]

Successfully upgrade my 10.10 to 11.10 using lucazade's livecd, mine is a sony vaio x, installation script can't generate correct emgd.conf, so i use one from http://paste.ubuntu.com/612551/

Anyway, thank you very much!

[jbernardo]

Hi,

After reading tons of pages and a lot of google searches I managed to install Ubuntu 11.10 to my Asus 1101HA Netbook with EMGD drivers.

1. boot from standard install cd in live mode (F6) with "poulsbo.asd=1 psb_gfx.asd=1" added to kernel string
2. select install ubuntu from livecd
3. boot selecting unity-2d and install updates
4. make unity-2d default interface

sudo sed -i 's/user-session=ubuntu/user-session=ubuntu-2d/g' /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

5. perform emgd install and reboot

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gma500/emgd-1.8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xorg-emgd emgd-dkms
sudo emgd-xorg-conf

6. still won't boot so blacklist other modules and disable plymouth

sudo echo "# EMGD" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
sudo echo "blacklist psb_gfx" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
sudo echo "blacklist poulsbo" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
sudo echo "emgd" >> /etc/modules
sudo mv /etc/init/plymouth.conf /etc/init/plymouth.conf.disabled

now it works, sort of, here are my problems:

1. LibreOffice is way too slow, especially Calc
2. Playing videos from youtube, etc.. is impossible, sound sync is lost immediately
3. General performance of the system is kind-of slow, but within expected netbook range (I used have an older AspireOne, and it was a little better than 1101HA after the RAM upgrade)

Open to any suggestions on these matters....

Ciao guys and thanks for all the work on emgd drivers...

ortunk
I also have a 1101HA and have been unable to boot any oneiric live CD, so I wonder what is different between our eeepcs. What BIOS rom version you have? How much ram? I've tried with the original 1GB and my current 2GB and it hangs the same way.

[grege]

I also have a 1101HA and have been unable to boot any oneiric live CD, so I wonder what is different between our eeepcs. What BIOS rom version you have? How much ram? I've tried with the original 1GB and my current 2GB and it hangs the same way.

If it does not bother you to wipe the hard drive, try to install from an alternate install CD. Being text based it should at least give you a working VESA system. Then add the PPA and install the drivers.

I used Xubuntu on my Dell Mini 12 and I am pretty happy with the final result. Xubuntu is reasonably snappy for such a low powered system and I find it way more responsive than the XP that was installed when I bought it.

good luck

[ortunk]

I also have a 1101HA and have been unable to boot any oneiric live CD, so I wonder what is different between our eeepcs. What BIOS rom version you have? How much ram? I've tried with the original 1GB and my current 2GB and it hangs the same way.

Alternate install CD fails at some point for my Asus 1101HA, complaining about mising xorg-drivers-ati package during pkgsel. And the system is left half-setup, take a while to fix it, a lot of packages have to be installed and configured.

Boot with the regular 32bit installer, but select livecd mode and edit the kernel configuration adding "psb_gfx=asd.1 poulsbo.asd=1" before booting into LiveCD mode.

After you have installed Ubuntu 11.10 a good trick to make it boot is select recovery mode and then hit resume, this way plymouth is not run and you can boot succesfully into the login screen.

I don't have particulars of the 1101HA with me right now, but it was a 2GB version, and I did not upgrade the BIOS. PN is 1101HA-WHI010S it was a 1GB that was upgraded to 2GB (as bought, second hand).

[txutxifel]

emgd-support-autoconfiguration package will do the configuration for you..

Has nobody problems like me running the plasma desktop (KDE)?

PS: You'll find emgd-support* here: https://launchpad.net/~gma500/+archive/emgd-fix


Hi, I have upgraded my 1101HA since kubuntu 11.04. Kde works ok, but without Opengl (only xrender).

i had problem with emgd-suppor-autoconfiration pachage- I had a code error while i was installing it. I think that it was because i fixes kubuntu manually.

Only I had a problem with pulseaudio, because sound was choked. If anyone had problems I fixed it editing etc/pulse/default.pa and replacing this line:
load-module module-udev-detect
load-module module-udev-detect tsched=0ç

Thanks

[jbernardo]

Alternate install CD fails at some point for my Asus 1101HA, complaining about mising xorg-drivers-ati package during pkgsel. And the system is left half-setup, take a while to fix it, a lot of packages have to be installed and configured.

Boot with the regular 32bit installer, but select livecd mode and edit the kernel configuration adding "psb_gfx=asd.1 poulsbo.asd=1" before booting into LiveCD mode.

After you have installed Ubuntu 11.10 a good trick to make it boot is select recovery mode and then hit resume, this way plymouth is not run and you can boot succesfully into the login screen.

I don't have particulars of the 1101HA with me right now, but it was a 2GB version, and I did not upgrade the BIOS. PN is 1101HA-WHI010S it was a 1GB that was upgraded to 2GB (as bought, second hand).
Well, it is booting from the live live CD that hangs for me. I am ready to try the alternate cd, and will probably try older BIOS versions, as you never updated yours.

[prankster_mk]

Successfully upgrade my 10.10 to 11.10 using lucazade's livecd, mine is a sony vaio x, installation script can't generate correct emgd.conf, so i use one from http://paste.ubuntu.com/612551/

Anyway, thank you very much!
@ scubajeff

Hi Scubajeff,
I also have a Sony Vaio X, could you suggest me which version is better for it? Now I am running 10.04 cause it is a LTS, I am not interested in 3d effects etc, but I'd like to know the best solution for video playing.
Thank u a lot!!!

[thopiekar]

Successfully upgrade my 10.10 to 11.10 using lucazade's livecd, mine is a sony vaio x, installation script can't generate correct emgd.conf, so i use one from http://paste.ubuntu.com/612551/

Anyway, thank you very much!

check if emgd-xorg-send is installed and create a paste with it.. I would like to add your device to our emgd-xorg-conf script!

if emgd-xorg-conf is not installed try it with:
dmesg | grep DMI | pastebinit

[clatclat]

Hi,
I have an Asus 1101HA. After trying Ubuntu 11.10 (installation worked after disabling the poulsbo and psb drivers), I found it too slow for this netbook. Now I'm using Lubuntu 11.10, it booted and installed without any tricks with the vesa driver. I then added the emgd-fix repository as described on Launchpad, run a couple of updates with Synaptic and some reboots and voilà, now the dusplay is ok and the emgd utilities work properly. BTW, sound and Youtube worked out of the box after installing the flash plugin, while with Ubuntu sound was not working properly.
However, me too need to enable an external VGA monitor, and can't manage to properly modify /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-emgd.conf.
I added the following to the Device section:

Option "Monitor Layout" "CRT, LFP"
Option "Clone" "true"
Option "DevicePresence" "true"

Now if the netbook boots with the external monitor connected, as X starts the external monitor works and the LCD doesn't. As the login prompt appears, the external monitor disconnects, the LCD lights up againg, and I've found no way to have the external monitor working again. Grandr only lets me select a single display anyway. Can anybody help me?

[grege]

@thopiekar

Just for info emgd-xorg-send was never installed on my system using the emgd-1.8 PPA.

I eventually went to the PPA page, then "Show Package Details", then expanded the entry for emgd-xorg-conf ... oneiric. Then I downloaded the tar.gz file and extracted the emgd-xorg-send.py script and marked it as executable then ran it.

I have no idea why it did not get installed by the deb file.

Maybe a link on the PPA page direct to a copy of the script would make it simpler?

cheers

[bigfootnmd]

SOLVED

I logged out and chose the unity 2d and logged back in.

Also, compliments to Lucazade. My display is nice and bright (much brighter than using the default vesa driver)

Hello,

I just loaded the livecd.iso image by Lucazade on my A0751.
Of course there were updates to load after the first reboot.
Now after applying those updates and rebooting Ubuntu loads up fine except the Unity menu is no longer visible. Mind you it is there and I can click where I think things are but I just can't see it.
Likewise all icons across the top bar are not visible (but still there). So, what do I do now?

How do I get things on top bar back where I can see them?
Can I install another desktop since I really don't like Unity?
HELP!

[scubajeff]

check if emgd-xorg-send is installed and create a paste with it.. I would like to add your device to our emgd-xorg-conf script!

if emgd-xorg-conf is not installed try it with:
dmesg | grep DMI | pastebinit

emgd-xorg-send is not installed. i have paste the dmesg result to http://paste.ubuntu.com/717486/ . hope it would help.

besides, can your scripts automatically blacklist pouslbo and insert emgdbl into initramfs so that the backlight key can be handled correctly?

[scubajeff]

@ scubajeff

Hi Scubajeff,
I also have a Sony Vaio X, could you suggest me which version is better for it? Now I am running 10.04 cause it is a LTS, I am not interested in 3d effects etc, but I'd like to know the best solution for video playing.
Thank u a lot!!!

Hi prankster_mk,
i would say the livecd in this thread is the best version for sony x. unity 2d running on top of emgd is fast! i can confirm that it's faster than the psb driver in 10.04 or 10.10. video playing speed is decent. but mind you, no vaapi support yet.

[prankster_mk]

Hi prankster_mk,
i would say the livecd in this thread is the best version for sony x. unity 2d running on top of emgd is fast! i can confirm that it's faster than the psb driver in 10.04 or 10.10. video playing speed is decent. but mind you, no vaapi support yet.
Thanks a lot!
No vaapi means no hd video playing, right???
Thank you again and thanks to all the ones who are doing their best to make this chipset work!

[snake_kaa]

Hi I'm Denis and new here, sorry if I flood here...

Sorry for my poor English. #-o

I've got installed Oneiric on my Nokia Booklet 3G it based on US15W too..

I've get emgd runnable and can use Gnome 3 in fallback mode.

But normal Gnome3 isn't usable, after login on the Gnome-Shell restart my X Server and I get new login screen.

Have anyone experience with Nokia Booklet 3G or other tipps/trick?

Thx

Greez.

[SteffenBNielsen]

I have a 1101HA and everything seems to work fine when using the iso that came with emgd. The only problem I have is that my netbook wont powerdown properly. It seems that the screen gets turned off, but that some power remains in the system.

[grege]

Hi I'm Denis and new here, sorry if I flood here...

Sorry for my poor English. #-o

I've got installed Oneiric on my Nokia Booklet 3G it based on US15W too..

I've get emgd runnable and can use Gnome 3 in fallback mode.

But normal Gnome3 isn't usable, after login on the Gnome-Shell restart my X Server and I get new login screen.

Have anyone experience with Nokia Booklet 3G or other tipps/trick?

Thx

Greez.

Hi Denis, I think that Gnome 3 will never work with EMGD, just like Unity 3D. I might be wrong, but Gnome 3 needs a large amount of graphics power.

In fallback mode just remember to hold down alt while right clicking the top toolbar, and then you can make it almost the same as Gnome 2.

:)

[simplygades]

Thanks a lot!
No vaapi means no hd video playing, right???
Thank you again and thanks to all the ones who are doing their best to make this chipset work!

"Just tried to install libx264-106 dependency in Oneiric from the Natty repositories, and mplayer from gma500 ppa on top of this, and worked! So if anyone needs a workaround till everything is settled..."

Mplayer works via the command line:

mplayer -vo vaapi -va vaapi /"link_to_movie

[rapiertg]

Must confess I've been tempted to give up on the 751h a few times - how does the 722 compare performance-wise? Any issues running Ubuntu?
Sorry im writing so late but got it yesterday. There is only one issue with LAN, easily fixable within bios settings, not big deal.
I am amazed with its performance. It offers much more then i really need. Today i tried to play few 3d games and i found no issues.

And something related to topic:
In 3.2 kernel staging area poulsbo driver got some patches, with suspend/hibernate fix too. Here is list of all patches:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/25/184

[thopiekar]

"Just tried to install libx264-106 dependency in Oneiric from the Natty repositories, and mplayer from gma500 ppa on top of this, and worked! So if anyone needs a workaround till everything is settled..."

Mplayer works via the command line:

mplayer -vo vaapi -va vaapi /"link_to_movie

I would use in your case these two PPA's:
https://launchpad.net/~motumedia/+archive/mplayer-daily
https://launchpad.net/~motumedia/+archive/libav-daily

Luca just copied the mplayer package from the mplayer-daily ppa, but forgot to copy the libav source package, too.

[mattrope]

I would use in your case these two PPA's:
https://launchpad.net/~motumedia/+archive/mplayer-daily (https://launchpad.net/%7Emotumedia/+archive/mplayer-daily)
https://launchpad.net/~motumedia/+archive/libav-daily (https://launchpad.net/%7Emotumedia/+archive/libav-daily)

Luca just copied the mplayer package from the mplayer-daily ppa, but forgot to copy the libav source package, too.

That appears to just be an upstream snapshot of mplayer (which does not support libva). If you want hardware acceleration, you need to make sure you run a copy of mplayer with libva support patched in.

Don't confuse libva (which provides hardware acceleration) with libav (which is an unrelated codec library).

[thopiekar]

That appears to just be an upstream snapshot of mplayer (which does not support libva). If you want hardware acceleration, you need to make sure you run a copy of mplayer with libva support patched in.

Don't confuse libva (which provides hardware acceleration) with libav (which is an unrelated codec library).

haven't checked that.. mplayer with vaapi support is in gitorious.org but can't make it work and build against new libs in Oneiric :/
But I found a german wiki page explaining how to build gnash (flashplayer) with vaapi http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/gnash

[snake_kaa]

Hi Denis, I think that Gnome 3 will never work with EMGD, just like Unity 3D. I might be wrong, but Gnome 3 needs a large amount of graphics power.

In fallback mode just remember to hold down alt while right clicking the top toolbar, and then you can make it almost the same as Gnome 2.

:)

Hi grege, thx.

hm I don't now, whether Gnome need more power.

EMGD driver has about 350 fps in glxgears...

I'vet get one Gnome Error, but cann't take this.

[lucazade]

I would use in your case these two PPA's:
https://launchpad.net/~motumedia/+archive/mplayer-daily
https://launchpad.net/~motumedia/+archive/libav-daily

Luca just copied the mplayer package from the mplayer-daily ppa, but forgot to copy the libav source package, too.

Unfortunately are not good, I confused av and va last time as well :)
Simplygades seems to have to solved the issue using old natty libx264-106 dependency, maybe we just need to change deps and rebuild.

[lucazade]

haven't checked that.. mplayer with vaapi support is in gitorious.org but can't make it work and build against new libs in Oneiric :/
But I found a german wiki page explaining how to build gnash (flashplayer) with vaapi http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/gnash

I tried to build gnash-vaapi in the past but without success :/

[lucazade]

Hi grege, thx.

hm I don't now, whether Gnome need more power.

EMGD driver has about 350 fps in glxgears...

I'vet get one Gnome Error, but cann't take this.

It is a matter of opengl extensions provided by emgd and unity/gnomeshell requirements not about fps.

[snake_kaa]

It is a matter of opengl extensions provided by emgd and unity/gnomeshell requirements not about fps.

Hi,
ah ok, i have false understood :-/
is 3D-support in psb-drivers better, not for games of course ;). just as knowledge?

[grege]

Hi,
ah ok, i have false understood :-/
is 3D-support in psb-drivers better, not for games of course ;). just as knowledge?

Hi

The original poulsbo driver is frozen in time. It does not work with new distributions with newer versions of Xorg. The only way to a working system on a modern version of Ubuntu or any other distro is to use EMGD.

EMGD only works because of the work and genius of thopiekar,lucazade, tista and the other members of the GMA500 team.

There is a new open source driver - psb-gfx. It has been accepted into the 3.1 kernel (I think) and does provide good 2d acceleration and mode setting. It does not yet provide video acceleration. I hope psb-gfx may one day support Gallium3D, but a lot of work will have to happen before it works. The big advantage of psb-gfx is that it will be a simple auto install and work with latest versions of the X stack.

This page needs updating for Oneiric but it doees summerise all the options.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo

I hope that answers the question. It is a matter of what works, not which is fastest.

:)

[lucazade]

@Thopiekar

What the hell was the last update about ?
It totally broken my installation :(

Now I have a wrong 10-emgd.conf for a SonyVaio while I still have an Acer, so monitor settings are no good.
But this seems not the only problem because also restoring an old 10-emgd.conf I still get a colorful and broken X display. ARG!

this is my DMI:
paste.ubuntu.com/720420

this is the wrong 10-emgd.conf installed with latest updates:
paste.ubuntu.com/720418

this is an old one with correct info:
paste.ubuntu.com/720419

Anyway 10-emgd.conf doesn't seems the only wrong thing... what else was changed?


################

EDIT:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~gma500/+junk/emgd-support/revision/9

there is a typo:
it is called 'poulsbo'
anyway why blacklisting? I use it for brightness support.

##############

EDIT2:

fixing manually 10-emgd.conf with the old working and removing the typoed pouslbo in blacklist
I get back my netbook.. we need to do these things not in the stable ppa

[snake_kaa]

Hi

The original poulsbo driver is frozen in time. It does not work with new distributions with newer versions of Xorg. The only way to a working system on a modern version of Ubuntu or any other distro is to use EMGD.

EMGD only works because of the work and genius of thopiekar,lucazade, tista and the other members of the GMA500 team.

There is a new open source driver - psb-gfx. It has been accepted into the 3.1 kernel (I think) and does provide good 2d acceleration and mode setting. It does not yet provide video acceleration. I hope psb-gfx may one day support Gallium3D, but a lot of work will have to happen before it works. The big advantage of psb-gfx is that it will be a simple auto install and work with latest versions of the X stack.

This page needs updating for Oneiric but it doees summerise all the options.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo

I hope that answers the question. It is a matter of what works, not which is fastest.

:)

yop, y've right here.

Intel support for poulsbo in linux is horrible... :-/

I've tried to compile/run emgd on debian sid, but without any results... Ubuntu has much more funs and communty support is great. :) [and installation of drivers is very simple. ] ;)

Yet I'm a happy that's my Nokia running on Linux and I can watch videos, not just slideshows... ;)

Thx a lot!

[thopiekar]

@Thopiekar

What the hell was the last update about ?
It totally broken my installation :(

Now I have a wrong 10-emgd.conf for a SonyVaio while I still have an Acer, so monitor settings are no good.
But this seems not the only problem because also restoring an old 10-emgd.conf I still get a colorful and broken X display. ARG!

this is my DMI:
paste.ubuntu.com/720420

this is the wrong 10-emgd.conf installed with latest updates:
paste.ubuntu.com/720418

this is an old one with correct info:
paste.ubuntu.com/720419

Anyway 10-emgd.conf doesn't seems the only wrong thing... what else was changed?


################

EDIT:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~gma500/+junk/emgd-support/revision/9

there is a typo:
it is called 'poulsbo'
anyway why blacklisting? I use it for brightness support.

##############

EDIT2:

fixing manually 10-emgd.conf with the old working and removing the typoed pouslbo in blacklist
I get back my netbook.. we need to do these things not in the stable ppa

I blacklisted it because I wanted to test it. Well, I think I'll remove it then again. I remember someone told me to blacklist it also and I decided to give it a try.
* fixed http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~gma500/+junk/emgd-support/revision/10

Now about emgd-xorg-conf: Sounds like I forgot to unset the hardcoding of the dmi which I set for testing purposes.
* fixed http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~gma500/+junk/emgd-xorg-conf/revision/30

[thopiekar]

yop, y've right here.

Intel support for poulsbo in linux is horrible... :-/

I've tried to compile/run emgd on debian sid, but without any results... Ubuntu has much more funs and communty support is great. :) [and installation of drivers is very simple. ] ;)

Yet I'm a happy that's my Nokia running on Linux and I can watch videos, not just slideshows... ;)

Thx a lot!

thank you, too ;)

[lucazade]

I blacklisted it because I wanted to test it. Well, I think I'll remove it then again. I remember someone told me to blacklist it also and I decided to give it a try.
* fixed http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~gma500/+junk/emgd-support/revision/10

Now about emgd-xorg-conf: Sounds like I forgot to unset the hardcoding of the dmi which I set for testing purposes.
* fixed http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~gma500/+junk/emgd-xorg-conf/revision/30

Thanks a lot Thomas :)

[somesayinice]

Natty + emgd = libva died!

$ vainfo
libva: libva version 0.31.1
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/emgd_drv_video.so
Intel(R) Embedded Media and Graphics Driver 1.5 Build 1816
Using XCB based dispatch table.
Errore di segmentazione (core dump creato)

luca@one:/media/Estesa/Video$ mplayer -va vaapi -vo vaapi Serenity\ -\ HD\ DVD\ Trailer.mpg
MPlayer UNKNOWN-4.5.2 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing Serenity - HD DVD Trailer.mpg.
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0
[lavf] stream 1: audio (aac), -aid 0, -alang und
VIDEO: [H264] 1280x720 24bpp 23.976 fps 4674.1 kbps (570.6 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
major_brand: isom
minor_version: 1
compatible_brands: isomavc1
creation_time: 2007-05-30 05:20:31
artist: Universal Pictures
title: Serenity - HD DVD Trailer
date: 2005
Load subtitles in ./
libva: libva version 0.31.1
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/emgd_drv_video.so
Intel(R) Embedded Media and Graphics Driver 1.5 Build 1816
Using XCB based dispatch table.


MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: preinit_libvo
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.](*,)

I had the same problem and it was killing me until I did this:

Added LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME="fglrx"to /etc/environment file
Added export LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME="fglrx" to ~/.bashrc

Don't know the right video driver for the GMA 500 but I suspect that substitution will help. Works with smplayer as well.

I followed http://www.serkey.com/ubuntu-mplayer-vaapi-on-e-350-apu-problems-bftahn.html to https://bugs.launchpad.net/libva/+bug/800022 and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libva/+bug/773466/comments/22 to get this info. Hope this helps anyone out there.

[thopiekar]

I suggest it is driver related again. Surely there are up-to-date drivers which are officially supported by Canonical, but the libva library seems to be to new for all.
In our case especially for EMGD.

Well, just a suggestion - maybe you can find a solution :)

[knopper1]

Hi there,

Is there a way to get the VGA port working in "clone display" mode with emgd 1.8.0.2032 without having to restart xorg after attaching an additional monitor?

The VGA relevant part of the "Driver" section in my xorg.conf is currently:


Option "PortDrivers" "svdo lvds"
Option "ALL/1/name" "lvds-display"
Option "ALL/1/General/VideoRAM" "131072"
Option "ALL/1/General/PortOrder" "42000"
Option "ALL/1/General/DisplayConfig" "2" # 2 = Clone
Option "ALL/1/General/DisplayDetect" "0"
Option "ALL/1/General/Accel" "1"
Option "ALL/1/General/CloneWidth" "1024"
Option "ALL/1/General/CloneHeight" "768"
Option "ALL/1/General/CloneRefresh" "60"
Option "ALL/1/Port/2/General/name" "VGA"
Option "ALL/1/Port/2/General/Edid" "0"
Option "ALL/1/Port/2/General/EdidAvail" "1"
Option "ALL/1/Port/2/General/EdidNotAvail" "7"


which works well only if a monitor or projector is already presend on xorgs start, but there seems to be no way to make emgdgui aware of a monitor plugged in at a later time.

xrandr only shows a "default" output, but no separate listing of LVDS and VGA.

Regards
-Klaus

[mattrope]

Hi there,

Is there a way to get the VGA port working in "clone display" mode with emgd 1.8.0.2032 without having to restart xorg after attaching an additional monitor?


Unfortunately, no. EMGD is specifically designed for "embedded" use cases (in-car systems, kiosks, point-of-sale devices, etc.) where display configurations are known statically and never change (i.e., external monitors don't get hotplugged at runtime). The internal design of EMGD is quite different from "normal" graphics drivers because it has to address a lot of special needs of the embedded world which aren't a concern in mobile and desktop system. For example, many/most of the systems that EMGD targets don't have traditional video bios or firmware which can store configuration information like panel settings...this is why EMGD requires detailed panel configuration for non-EDID monitors whereas a typical netbook driver could simply query this information from the netbook's vbios and not require any special configuration on the part of the end user. Unfortunately, these design decisions (which make EMGD ideal for its target environments) also make it much less user-friendly for typical desktop or mobile usage.

There are other divisions at Intel that focus on graphics drivers intended for netbook/mobile customers, and I know they did develop drivers for the GMA500 chipset at one time that included the types of features you'd expect to find on a netbook (hotpluggable displays and such), but I'm not sure what the current status of those drivers are or if they're still being actively developed.

[knopper1]

Unfortunately, no. EMGD is specifically designed for "embedded" use cases (in-car systems, kiosks, point-of-sale devices, etc.) where display configurations are known statically and never change (i.e., external monitors don't get hotplugged at runtime). The internal design of EMGD is quite different from "normal" graphics drivers because it has to address a lot of special needs of the embedded world which aren't a concern in mobile and desktop system. For example, many/most of the systems that EMGD targets don't have traditional video bios or firmware which can store configuration information like panel settings...this is why EMGD requires detailed panel configuration for non-EDID monitors whereas a typical netbook driver could simply query this information from the netbook's vbios and not require any special configuration on the part of the end user. Unfortunately, these design decisions (which make EMGD ideal for its target environments) also make it much less user-friendly for typical desktop or mobile usage.

There are other divisions at Intel that focus on graphics drivers intended for netbook/mobile customers, and I know they did develop drivers for the GMA500 chipset at one time that included the types of features you'd expect to find on a netbook (hotpluggable displays and such), but I'm not sure what the current status of those drivers are or if they're still being actively developed.

I thought so, but maybe there is a way to just permanently activate the VGA port even if there is NO monitor attached? I mean, if I start xorg with VGA connected, the port is active and stays active, and I can even change monitors without a problem. It is just annoying that I have to connect a monitor before starting X for being able to do presentations without leaving my X session.

Neither the "ALL/1/General/DisplayDetect" nor the "ALL/1/Port/2/General/Edid*" can just set the VGA output to "active" when there is no monitor detected, so I thought I may have just missed a variable that says "VGA is always ON".

Knowing that most projectors accept 1024x768@60Hz, couldn't I set up a default non-EDID VGA monitor that will be just active even if there is no real monitor attached?

Regards
-Klaus

[bodhi.zazen]

Just a little FYI:

The staging (testing / experimental) driver in the kernel (psb-gfx) is looking good.

It requires you to rebuild your kernel but I am getting native resolution and for my purposes acceptable performance.

screenshot (http://bodhizazen.net/img/gma500.png)

To use the psb-gfx , compile your kernel, when you configure your kernel build (make menuconfig) first enable the staging drivers, then you will see the gma500 within the options (the option is hidden until you enable staging). Also build framebuffer (should be enabled by default).

In xorg.conf use the 'fbdev' driver.

[lucazade]

Just a little FYI:

The staging (testing / experimental) driver in the kernel (psb-gfx) is looking good.

It requires you to rebuild your kernel but I am getting native resolution and for my purposes acceptable performance.

screenshot (http://bodhizazen.net/img/gma500.png)

To use the psb-gfx , compile your kernel, when you configure your kernel build (make menuconfig) first enable the staging drivers, then you will see the gma500 within the options (the option is hidden until you enable staging). Also build framebuffer (should be enabled by default).

In xorg.conf use the 'fbdev' driver.

Thanks for heads up bodhi.zazen!
Phoronix says that psb-gfx is moving out of staging and will probably included in stable tree of kernel.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAxMTA

[gamx]

I need your advice. I have a Sony Vaio P. In Ubuntu 11.04 I used the emgd driver and it worked more or less (it was slow, though). When I upgraded to 11.10 the system did not boot so I had to reinstall everthing from scratch (by the way, only the alternate disk works... in case somebody faces the same problem). Now it is up and running but of course I do not have 3D effects.
I only want to use the netbook to surf the web and watch movies. What is the best option for 11.10? the driver that comes with ubuntu, the new psb_gfx that you mention in this thread, or emgd-1.8?
Thanks for the advice,

Gamx

[gamx]

By the way. Is anybody having problems with sound in 11.10 and gma500?

[txutxifel]

By the way. Is anybody having problems with sound in 11.10 and gma500?


Yes, I have problems with sound , it was choked. If anyone had problems I fixed it editing etc/pulse/default.pa and replacing this line:
load-module module-udev-detect
load-module module-udev-detect tsched=0

I hope it could help u

thank for your job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gamx]

That did the trick! Thanks.
Now I move to the next problem: I have installed emgd-1.8 and now I have problems with plymouth (I guess). When it boots up it freezes, except if in the meantime I go to terminal 1. In that case, it finishes the boot process and lightdm shows up.
I have checked and the kernel option noplymouth is in grub so I do not know what is going on...

[PilotPaul]

That did the trick! Thanks.
Now I move to the next problem: I have installed emgd-1.8 and now I have problems with plymouth (I guess). When it boots up it freezes, except if in the meantime I go to terminal 1. In that case, it finishes the boot process and lightdm shows up.
I have checked and the kernel option noplymouth is in grub so I do not know what is going on...

You need to disable Plymouth by renaming /etc/init/plymouth.conf to something else (such as plymouth.conf.disabled)

[borghal]

I'm using 11.04 Xubuntu on my Vaio P with EMDG and I've got decent perfomance but neither backlight keys nor suspend work. I'm really missing the possibility to suspend. Is it working on 11.10 for you guys?

[gamx]

Nop. Suspend and backlight do not work in 11.10 with the Vaio P.
Regarding the plymouth issue I renamed the script as mentioned in a previous post and I still get the problem: a graphic splash screen but the netbook eventually freezes.

[stevensj]

Hi,

I've been trying to find the best options for my Dell Mini 10.

Lucazade's modified install CD worked, and installed but things seemed very slow, especially the installation and booting (over 1 minute).

Now I wanted to try fbdev. I installed from the alternate CD, and the got Ubuntu 2D running with wrong resolution and ugly icons, but it was reasonably quick and snappy with animated loading and shutting down sequences. I then followed the instructions linked from the wiki for changing resolution and installing fbdev.

Now when it boots, I get a blank screen until the login screen. The login screen has been stretched diagonally until the mouse pointer is a 3cm white streak. If I log in, then the desktop is the same. Dropping to a terminal with ctrl-alt-F1 gives a terminal with the correct resolution. If I shutdown from terminal, then I get the animated shutting down display at the correct resolution.

Is there any obvious thing that I can do to fix it? Things seemed to be running quickly, so this driver seemed to be a good option. Here are some logs:

Xorg.conf: http://paste.ubuntu.com/730470
DMI details: http://paste.ubuntu.com/730457
/var/log/Xorg.0.log: http://paste.ubuntu.com/730466
/var/log/dmesg: http://paste.ubuntu.com/730467
/var/log/syslog: http://paste.ubuntu.com/730469

[Noma]

stevensj, have a look https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FrameBuffer

[Noma]

stevensj, have a look https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FrameBuffer

Possible reason wrong framebuffer mode, maybe? Try sudo hwinfo --framebuffer for supported modes.
Cheers

[stevensj]

Possible reason wrong framebuffer mode, maybe? Try sudo hwinfo --framebuffer for supported modes.
Cheers

Thanks Noma, I think that this may be along the right lines, but I haven't solved it yet.

First I tried disabling the framebuffer temporarily via GRUB using the instructions on the wiki. The system booted showing a flashing cursor, then a black screen, but the login was a mess of coloured blocks, each about the size a letter on the console. It looked like a broken ZX Spectrum.

Next, I used hwinfo to see the supported modes. The highest value was 1366x748x24 (0x031b). I updated all the files in the fbdev instructions to reflect this. The system booted via a flashing cursor, then a black screen, then the login screen. However, the resolution was only 640x480. Have a missed a file somewhere to get the correct resolution?

Some logs:
dmesg: http://paste.ubuntu.com/730820
/var/log/Xorg.0.log: http://paste.ubuntu.com/730809
/var/log/syslog: http://paste.ubuntu.com/730811
/etc/X11/xorg.conf: http://paste.ubuntu.com/730812
/etc/modules: http://paste.ubuntu.com/730825
/etc/default/grub: http://paste.ubuntu.com/730827
/etc/grub.d/01_915resolution: http://paste.ubuntu.com/730828

Cheers
John

[Noma]

Thanks Noma, I think that this may be along the right lines, but I haven't solved it yet.

First I tried disabling the framebuffer temporarily via GRUB using the instructions on the wiki. The system booted showing a flashing cursor, then a black screen, but the login was a mess of coloured blocks, each about the size a letter on the console. It looked like a broken ZX Spectrum.

Next, I used hwinfo to see the supported modes. The highest value was 1366x748x24 (0x031b). I updated all the files in the fbdev instructions to reflect this. The system booted via a flashing cursor, then a black screen, then the login screen. However, the resolution was only 640x480. Have a missed a file somewhere to get the correct resolution?

Some logs:
dmesg: http://paste.ubuntu.com/730820
/var/log/Xorg.0.log: http://paste.ubuntu.com/730809
/var/log/syslog: http://paste.ubuntu.com/730811
/etc/X11/xorg.conf: http://paste.ubuntu.com/730812
/etc/modules: http://paste.ubuntu.com/730825
/etc/default/grub: http://paste.ubuntu.com/730827
/etc/grub.d/01_915resolution: http://paste.ubuntu.com/730828

Cheers
John

Hi, John! Can you show your lsmod?

[thopiekar]

Well, as luca's live iso got all emgd-support* packages, I made for us, preinstalled you will need to remove them by:

sudo apt-get purge emgd-support*

also use a packagemanager like synaptic or muon to remove the rest of the packages called "emgd*"

This will revert all changes to a "emgd"-clean system..

Removing emgd-support-autoconfiguration for example will just remove the configuration files for Grub, Xorg and kernel modules.

See yaa

[stevensj]

Hi, John! Can you show your lsmod?

Hi Noma,

lsmod: http://paste.ubuntu.com/731814

Thanks!!!

[dalars27]

Hi,

so far I'm a Ubuntu noob - so I've been reading a lot in this thread. I installed 11.04 on my Vaio X some time ago and was never really satisfied with its video performence because of the VESA driver.

I decided to go for the EMGD today. I did what is documented and installed xorg-emgd, emgd-dkms and emgd-xorg-conf. After that I executed sudo emgd-xorg-conf and restarted my laptop.

After the restart I got only a screen with funny colors. There's no way to login and no way I can access a terminal. Any good idea how to proceed?

Thanks
Lars

[skullbocks]

Hi everyone,

Today I tried to run Ubuntu 11.10 official livecd on my netbook with 'poulsbo.asd=1 psb_gfx.asd=1' kernel option but it gave me some strange errors about data structure of kernel.

The same things happens running lucadaze's livecd iso.

Someone has the same problem or something like this? :confused::confused:
My netbook is an Asus 1101 ha with 2 gb ram.

Many thanks to all!

[jbernardo]

Hi everyone,

Today I tried to run Ubuntu 11.10 official livecd on my netbook with 'poulsbo.asd=1 psb_gfx.asd=1' kernel option but it gave me some strange errors about data structure of kernel.

The same things happens running lucadaze's livecd iso.

Someone has the same problem or something like this? :confused::confused:
My netbook is an Asus 1101 ha with 2 gb ram.

Many thanks to all!
I have exactly the same problem, also on a 1101HA. I've tried flashing previous BIOS, changing the RAM for the original 1GB, removing the HD, etc. Seems that the only work around is to use the alternate install CD.

[skullbocks]

I have exactly the same problem, also on a 1101HA. I've tried flashing previous BIOS, changing the RAM for the original 1GB, removing the HD, etc. Seems that the only work around is to use the alternate install CD.

Do you have good performance with alternate iso?

I can't understand the reason of this error, kernel seems to be unable to page ram or something like that.
what could be the possible causes??:(:(

[jbernardo]

Do you have good performance with alternate iso?

I can't understand the reason of this error, kernel seems to be unable to page ram or something like that.
what could be the possible causes??:(:(
I am still on 10.10, I booted with the alternate iso but didn't install it.
As for the causes, until now I thought it was my 1101ha breaking down, but since yours has the same behaviour, probably some differences in the gma500 chipset revisions, causing problems with the kernel.

[PPosix]

Hi everyone,

Today I tried to run Ubuntu 11.10 official livecd on my netbook with 'poulsbo.asd=1 psb_gfx.asd=1' kernel option but it gave me some strange errors about data structure of kernel.

The same things happens running lucadaze's livecd iso.

Someone has the same problem or something like this? :confused::confused:
My netbook is an Asus 1101 ha with 2 gb ram.

Many thanks to all!

I have the same model and used this kernel options to boot from oficial livecd: driver=vesa vga=328

Good Luck

[skullbocks]

I have the same model and used this kernel options to boot from oficial livecd: driver=vesa vga=328

Good Luck
It doesn't work.

Same error again!

[skullbocks]

Bad news...
I saw in boot message that option "poulsbo.asd=1 psb_gfx.asd=1" was not recognized...

[thopiekar]

try also:
poulsbo.dummy=1 psb_gfx.dummy=1
or
poulsbo.modeset=0 psb_gfx.modeset=0

[michael37]

For Dell Mini 12 owners wanting to use Oneiric.

I installed a clean Xubuntu using the Alternate (character) install image. I tried a dist-upgrade and it did not work for me.
Sound was crackly, but fixed by editing /etc/pulse/default.pa and adding tsched=o to the line load-module module-udev-detect.

I added the EMGD 1.8 PPA and followed the instructions. The driver installed but emgd-xorg-conf failed and made a zero byte file called 10-emgd.conf in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/

I copied in the config from my 11.04 install and rebooted and it boots up and runs properly. I also disabled Plymouth.

The keyboard brightness keys are functional. emgdui does not run, but as the keyboard works that is no biggy. The touchpad is also working with scrolling and tap.

So to get it all working all you need to do is wait for a fix or manually add 10-emgd.conf <<-- It has been fixed for the Mini 12 so all good now

If anyone wants the config I will paste the contents here so you can cut and paste.

cheers

Edit: I just tried to hibernate by changing settings and the closing lid. I re-opened lid and pressed power button and after about 15 secs I got the unlock screen dialog then back to where it was. So, it does resume from hibernate. Only a single test so I cannot yet know how reliable hibernate/resume is, but it did work.
Edit2: Cpu frequency scaling is also working properly.

Another happy Dell Mini 12 user. I installed Linux Mint 11 with Gnome 2. Main user of this computer will be a computer newbie with basic Microsoft experience, so Mint/Gnome 2 is a perfect combo.

Here are a few differences with previous post.


Linux Mint 11 with Gnome 2, so the underlying system is Natty.
Emdg-1.8 and instructions from emgd-1.8 ppa (https://launchpad.net/~gma500/+archive/emgd-1.8) are working well overall...
Except resolution -- emgd-xorg-conf chose wrong 1366 resolution on my older Dell Mini 12 in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-emgd.conf. Edited file by hand and fixed to correct 1280x800 resolution.
Did not have a problem with sound out of the box and did not need to change anything. Banshee and Skype work fine.
Brightness keys were not functional until adding acpi_backlight=vendor from an earlier post in this thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10783335&postcount=3931).
Applied suspend fix from general EMGD FAQ (https://answers.launchpad.net/emgd/+faq/1450)
VAAPI works fine, but usable mplayer with VA enabled is missing. A bummer. I can't keep up with this thread to find a working mplayer.
Mint blanks plymouth so no need to alter plymouth.


Now, a little rant. Just to get it out of my system. This computer has been running Karmic with psb driver for years with minimal graphical problems and great video acceleration. However, there were other problems (audio, suspend) and the rest of the software rotted, so Karmic had to go. The same computer runs 10 year old Windows XP just fine, you know what I mean? </rant>

[skullbocks]

try also:
poulsbo.dummy=1 psb_gfx.dummy=1
or
poulsbo.modeset=0 psb_gfx.modeset=0
I tried all option but ubuntu continues to give me kernel panic error.
Yesterday I also tried fedora 16 and it gave me the same error on boot!

Does anyone have any idea?

[bodhi.zazen]

Thanks for heads up bodhi.zazen!
Phoronix says that psb-gfx is moving out of staging and will probably included in stable tree of kernel.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAxMTA

The gma500 kernel module is no longer in staging

http://bodhizazen.net/img/kernel/gma500.png

[lucazade]

ah cool :)
the name of the module seems a bit strange.. the 'stub' driver was 'poulsbo' in old kernel releases and it provided only backlight support via acpi for gma500, not a real video driver.
maybe they purged old 'poulsbo' for 'psb_gfx' and used the old name 'stub', dunno, just guessing!

[bodhi.zazen]

ah cool :)
the name of the module seems a bit strange.. the 'stub' driver was 'poulsbo' in old kernel releases and it provided only backlight support via acpi for gma500, not a real video driver.
maybe they purged old 'poulsbo' for 'psb_gfx' and used the old name 'stub', dunno, just guessing!

Hit the help key, they discuss the name and backlight ;)

[thopiekar]

Install Natty and make a release upgrade.
When Oneiric was beta I used that method to install it :)

[skullbocks]

Install Natty and make a release upgrade.
When Oneiric was beta I used that method to install it :)
Thopiekar I tried just that but kernel panic error occurred again.
I added the option "poulsbo.asd=1 psb_gfx.asd=1", "poulsbo.dummy=1 psb_gfx.dummy=1", "poulsbo.modeset=0 psb_gfx.modeset=0" but these were not recognized by kernel.
I'm really confused!

How is it possible??

[thopiekar]

The kernel panic appears even if you want to install Natty?
This problem seems not to be psb_gfx related.

Is there any way for you to see the kernel panic message?

[m0dcm]

Hey Luca and crew,
It's been a while since I've been on here, and I've not used my Acer Aspire One AO751h for a while now as I've been busy playing with my Sony Vaio VGC-V2M desktop PC, which I currently have issues with the Nvidia Graphincs driver (Thats for another thread!!)

Anyway, I'm going to fire up and install Ubuntu back onto the Acer Netbook and was wondering which version of Ubuntu is still good with the GMA500? Have all things been sorted with 11.04 or 11.10? or should I go with 10.04LTS till 12.04LTS comes out next April?

I've also been told that 12.04 will have the Gallium? driver added, will this help us poor GMA500 Netbook users?

I shall keep looking on here each day or 2.....

Live long and prosper and keep up the great work...

[bodhi.zazen]

Hey Luca and crew,
It's been a while since I've been on here, and I've not used my Acer Aspire One AO751h for a while now as I've been busy playing with my Sony Vaio VGC-V2M desktop PC, which I currently have issues with the Nvidia Graphincs driver (Thats for another thread!!)

Anyway, I'm going to fire up and install Ubuntu back onto the Acer Netbook and was wondering which version of Ubuntu is still good with the GMA500? Have all things been sorted with 11.04 or 11.10? or should I go with 10.04LTS till 12.04LTS comes out next April?

I've also been told that 12.04 will have the Gallium? driver added, will this help us poor GMA500 Netbook users?

I shall keep looking on here each day or 2.....

Live long and prosper and keep up the great work...

no, the gallium driver will NOT support the gma500.

IMO the way forward is in the gma driver in the 3.x kernel. The driver is stable and works for me. As it is an open source driver time I suggest diverting community support from the closed source drivers to the open source driver.

The "problem" is you will need to re-compile your kernel. I am currently using the 3.0.5 kernel on my Aspire One AO751h

I posted a screen shot earlier :

http://bodhizazen.net/img/gma500.png

The disadvantage is it requires you to recompile your kernel. The advantage is, other then a kernel compilation, it "just works". No need to configure X, downgrade X, etc.

http://bodhizazen.net/Tutorials/kernel#GMA500

[thopiekar]

What about packaging this kernel? I have no clue how to do that. Found wiki pages explaining how to do that, but I never got it working.

Would be great to have a seperate package for the psb_gfx enabled kernel :)

[bodhi.zazen]

What about packaging this kernel? I have no clue how to do that. Found wiki pages explaining how to do that, but I never got it working.

Would be great to have a seperate package for the psb_gfx enabled kernel :)

Follow the guide I gave you if you wish, I wrote it for users like you, new to compiling a kernel. Use the easy method and give me feedback if you get stuck so I can improve the guide. I would advise you use the 3.0.5 kernel, in which case you need to enable the staging driver.

Honestly, it is not *that* difficult to compile the 3.0.5 kernel with the gma500 staging driver, the biggest problem you will have is finding the option to enable the staging drivers ;)

The 3.0.8 kernel was released recently enough I have not tried it, so I can only vouch for the 3.0.5 kernel.

You can file a request on LP for a psb enabled kernel flavor

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/FAQ#Kernel.2BAC8-FAQ.2BAC8-DevFlavours000WhatIs.What_is_a_Kernel_Flavour.3F

[lucazade]

if we don't want to wait for kernel 3.1 with psb_gfx included by default we can update psb_gfx dkms package present in ppa that works for kernel >3.0 (so natty, oneiric and precise).

https://launchpad.net/~gma500/+archive/psb-gfx-testing

it is not updated to latest git revision but it is easy to do it... just grab psb_gfx from linux-next git repo and update files inside deb.

@m0dcm
if you search in this thread there is a modified Oneiric livecd iso with emgd drivers already installed.. don't have a link now to paste, sorry.

[ortunk]

Why did you install 1.8 and not "fix" drivers? They seem more updated.

Thanks, I switched over to emgd-fix repository, and the system acts a little better now. Adobe Flash video or applet performance is still not satisfactory. (video stutters, controls are laggy) I really really hate FLASH!

[PilotPaul]

Am I correct in thinking that the open source driver still doesn't support either Xv or VAAPI? If so are there any plans to add such support? Not sure I can run MythTV with anything less...

[jbernardo]

The kernel panic appears even if you want to install Natty?
This problem seems not to be psb_gfx related.

Is there any way for you to see the kernel panic message?

At least for me, on my 1101ha the panic appears only on oneiric (I'm running natty right now), and it scrolls most of the information out of the screen, so it is very difficult to read. Any idea how to extract the panic info from a live usb after it has crashed?

[skullbocks]

The kernel panic appears even if you want to install Natty?
This problem seems not to be psb_gfx related.

Is there any way for you to see the kernel panic message?
Thopiekar I don't know how I can show you what happens but today I have installed natty without any problem and than I built the kernel 3.0.8.
The result is that kernel run properly and no kernel panic appear when kernel 3.0.8 boot up.
Then the problem is caused by poulsbo driver that don't recognize boot option passed and cause the kernel panic.

[thopiekar]

tried to update the psb-dkms package but the sources from stable branch fail to build against the latest kernel installed in ubuntu. Providing the full kernel is needed here, I think.

[markelos]

Am I correct in thinking that the open source driver still doesn't support either Xv or VAAPI? If so are there any plans to add such support? Not sure I can run MythTV with anything less...

I'm on arch and with latest kernel 3.1.1, I was able to play videos with xv on smplayer. Still a bit laggy though...

[thopiekar]

I would also move to arch but there are no mythtv 0.25 packages :(

[bodhi.zazen]

I'm on arch and with latest kernel 3.1.1, I was able to play videos with xv on smplayer. Still a bit laggy though...

I am on gentoo with kernel 3.0.4 , performance is decent.

Has the gma500 driver moved out of staging in 3.1.1 ? I thought it had, but I could not find it in menuconfig, either in staging or device drivers.

[skullbocks]

I installed ubuntu 11.04 and than i compiled kernel 3.1.1.
The kernel is fast but gma500 module is very laggy and videos cannot be played in a decent way.

Another good news is that no kernel panic errors appeared and this proves that option
"poulsbo.asd=1 psb_gfx.asd=1"
and others were not functional for all netbooks.

Now I'm thinking to upgrade to oneric with this kernel. :D
What performances have emgd on oneric?

P.S.
gma500 module is still in staging!

[syg00]

IMO the way forward is in the gma driver in the 3.x kernel. The driver is stable and works for me. As it is an open source driver time I suggest diverting community support from the closed source drivers to the open source driver.

The "problem" is you will need to re-compile your kernel. I am currently using the 3.0.5 kernel on my Aspire One AO751h

...

The disadvantage is it requires you to recompile your kernel. The advantage is, other then a kernel compilation, it "just works". No need to configure X, downgrade X, etc.I also pulled 3.1.1 and get no satisfaction on resolution - 1024x768 stretched ... yuck.

Did you pass in any grub parms - if so, may I ask what ?.

[prankster_mk]

Hello everybody,
in the facebook dissatisfaction group I saw the following link:
http://forum.pocketables.net/showpost.php?p=78668&postcount=51

Could anybody more expert than me test it?

Thanks everybody!

[el_bandido]

Right, it's been a while guys. I've been reading back and see the kernel now supports GMA500 (if I'm correct?). If I get the latest minimal ubuntu image and run unity 2d over the top, is it going to work out of the box?

What's the easiest way to run the new driver without a reboot, I'm still using that one Luca put together a while back.

edit: Still running a T91mt

[skullbocks]

I upgraded just now to ubuntu 11.10 from 11.04 replacing default kernel with my own compiled kernel (3.1.1)...
Psb_gfx module works very well and I have 3d acceleration running very well on my netbook!
I can't believe it!!!!
Videos are very fluid and only youtube full screen videos are a bit laggy.
Yuppy!!! :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

[jbernardo]

I upgraded just now to ubuntu 11.10 from 11.04 replacing default kernel with my own compiled kernel (3.1.1)...
Psb_gfx module works very well and I have 3d acceleration running very well on my netbook!
I can't believe it!!!!
Videos are very fluid and only youtube full screen videos are a bit laggy.
Yuppy!!!
Step by step walkthrough, pretty please? :)

[skullbocks]

First of all I fresh installed ubuntu 11.04 without emgd.
Than I downloaded the kernel 3.1.1 and I configured it with make localmodconfig to complie only used modules (I suggest you to plug all usb device that may be used and be careful about the choices you select), this command asked me to compile gma500 support.
After this I gave the command make menuconfig to fine tune the configuration.
Follow the Bodi.zazen guide for more specific info.
Finally I upgraded the ubuntu version but, before reboot, I removed the kernel 3.0.0.
And now everything works very well including plymouth!
I'm really happy!!! :guitar::guitar::guitar::lolflag::lolflag::lolflag :

[bodhi.zazen]

Step by step walkthrough, pretty please? :)

http://bodhizazen.net/Tutorials/kernel

It is fairly easy. I wrote the above guide for people new to compiling kernels and plan to give a session on compiling kernels in #ubuntu-classroom.

As such , the guide is my first draft, any feedback you have would be appreciated so I may improve it for the community.

First of all I fresh installed ubuntu 11.04 without emgd.
Than I downloaded the kernel 3.1.1 and I configured it with make localmodconfig to complie only used modules (I suggest you to plug all usb device that may be used and be careful about the choices you select), this command asked me to compile gma500 support.
After this I gave the command make menuconfig to fine tune the configuration.
Follow the Bodi.zazen guide for more specific info.
Finally I upgraded the ubuntu version but, before reboot, I removed the kernel 3.0.0.
And now everything works very well including plymouth!
I'm really happy!!! :guitar::guitar::guitar::lolflag::lolflag::lolflag :

Congrats !!!

Yes, I have been happy with the staging driver as well.

Glad my guide was helpful, again, as above, any feedback for improvement would be great.

[jbernardo]

http://bodhizazen.net/Tutorials/kernel

It is fairly easy. I wrote the above guide for people new to compiling kernels and plan to give a session on compiling kernels in #ubuntu-classroom.

As such , the guide is my first draft, any feedback you have would be appreciated so I may improve it for the community.



Congrats !!!

Yes, I have been happy with the staging driver as well.

Glad my guide was helpful, again, as above, any feedback for improvement would be great.
Thanks to both, the question wasn't on how to compile the kernel (I've built kernels for some years), but on what else needed to be done to boot the 1101HA into oneiric and to enable 3D and video acceleration. I'll try the install from scratch using the alternate image this weekend, and will go from there based on what skullbocks posted.

[bodhi.zazen]

Thanks to both, the question wasn't on how to compile the kernel (I've built kernels for some years), but on what else needed to be done to boot the 1101HA into oneiric and to enable 3D and video acceleration. I'll try the install from scratch using the alternate image this weekend, and will go from there based on what skullbocks posted.

That is what is so nice about the staging driver, you simply build it and it works (at least on gentoo, I have not built it outside of gentoo).

[el_bandido]

(at least on gentoo, I have not built it outside of gentoo).

I'm pretty constrained to minimal ubuntu due to touch screen applications, as I've been unable to get them working on any other distro (or outside of unity 2d/gnome based applications).

Will give my own kernel a go and get back to you.

[lucazade]

I'm not able to follow closely the thread because of my new job (python, opengl and touchscreen)..
if anyone needs any help let me know.. I'll try to contribute where possible.. if my brain will support me :)

[mattrope]

That is what is so nice about the staging driver, you simply build it and it works (at least on gentoo, I have not built it outside of gentoo).

Right, but the gma500 staging driver (which is purely a kernel display driver) doesn't encompass 3D or video acceleration which you indicated you also had working. It sounds like you're actually using unaccelerated software rendering for 3D and video unless you've also taken some extra steps to hook it up to the PowerVR "secret sauce" userspace provided by one of the closed source driver options.

[el_bandido]

how do I disable EMGD, it brings up a load of crap from DKMS during the kernel update.

[el_bandido]

right, I've removed EMGD, I cannot for the life of me get to any options to activate kernel modules (or the psb_stub driver), I used the 3 appropriate .deb's from ubuntu.kernel.org

[bodhi.zazen]

Right, but the gma500 staging driver (which is purely a kernel display driver) doesn't encompass 3D or video acceleration which you indicated you also had working. It sounds like you're actually using unaccelerated software rendering for 3D and video unless you've also taken some extra steps to hook it up to the PowerVR "secret sauce" userspace provided by one of the closed source driver options.

skullbocks is the one you want (scroll up to his post).

I am just using the staging driver as I prefer open source to reverse engineering close source drivers.

Plus I have a little netbook, I do use it for much other then internet, email, and such. Desktop is for 3d stuff, although on the desktop I have a much much better video card.

[skullbocks]

Thanks to both, the question wasn't on how to compile the kernel (I've built kernels for some years), but on what else needed to be done to boot the 1101HA into oneiric and to enable 3D and video acceleration. I'll try the install from scratch using the alternate image this weekend, and will go from there based on what skullbocks posted.

Jbernardo I suggest you to install natty and compile the kernel from there then upgrade to oneric, because I was not able to boot the system with alternate!

Bodhi.zazen tank you very much for the good guide!
It's easy and very helpful.:D:D

Edit:

mattrope this is my output of glxgears:

skullbocks@ferro-netbook:~$ glxgears
325 frames in 5.0 seconds = 64.852 FPS
409 frames in 5.0 seconds = 81.700 FPS
407 frames in 5.0 seconds = 81.264 FPS
408 frames in 5.0 seconds = 81.508 FPS
412 frames in 5.0 seconds = 82.262 FPS
393 frames in 5.0 seconds = 78.582 FPS
361 frames in 5.0 seconds = 72.200 FPS
387 frames in 5.0 seconds = 77.396 FPS
399 frames in 5.0 seconds = 79.688 FPS
XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0"
after 7528 requests (548 known processed) with 0 events remaining.


and this is my output of glxinfo | grep direct:

skullbocks@ferro-netbook:~$ glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: Yes
skullbocks@ferro-netbook:~$ sudo lshw -c display | grep driver
configuration: driver=poulsbo latency=0


Now I will download some HD videos to test how they play. :lolflag:

[el_bandido]

guys I'm stuck, I've compiled the new kernel with GMA500 drivers enabled but I can't work out where to copy the files from/to in order to make them bootable. I'm not running arch, so the guide on the previous page has left me a bit stumped.

Help!

I'm at this stage:

"Copy the new kernel to boot (arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage is a link to arch/x86/boot/bzImage so the following command works on both 32 AND 64 bit arch.)

sudo cp arch/x86/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.8



Copy the config and System.map

sudo cp System.map /boot/System.map-3.0.8
sudo cp .config /boot/config-3.0.8"

but I'm running ubuntu 11.10 from a minimal iso.

edit: I've checked (first bit is install directory) ~/ktest/linux-3.1.1/arch/x86/boot but there is no bzImage

[bodhi.zazen]

guys I'm stuck, I've compiled the new kernel with GMA500 drivers enabled but I can't work out where to copy the files from/to in order to make them bootable. I'm not running arch, so the guide on the previous page has left me a bit stumped.

Help!

I'm at this stage:

"Copy the new kernel to boot (arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage is a link to arch/x86/boot/bzImage so the following command works on both 32 AND 64 bit arch.)

sudo cp arch/x86/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.8



Copy the config and System.map

sudo cp System.map /boot/System.map-3.0.8
sudo cp .config /boot/config-3.0.8"

but I'm running ubuntu 11.10 from a minimal iso.

edit: I've checked (first bit is install directory) ~/ktest/linux-3.1.1/arch/x86/boot but there is no bzImage

arch is a directory in your build directory, not a distribution.

If there is not a bzImage something is amiss

/home/bodhi/src/linux-3.1.1/arch/x86/boot/bzImage

similar .config and System.map are in your build directory, looks like "~/ktest/linux-3.1.1/" from your post.

[el_bandido]

I did get an error in the original build, did say something about unable to find arch/blah blah blah.

Will try again.