Guide to Get the Best Performace from the GMA 500

[sol1tude]

hi lucazade.
what do you know about IEGD (have you tested it?)? is it works only in moblin or ubuntu is supported too? and what do you know about upcoming driver (I mean when it will be released or something)?
thanks,
sol1tude

[lucazade]

I haven't got any mirror.. can't send via mail because are a lot of files. sorry!

[lucazade]

hi lucazade.
what do you know about IEGD (have you tested it?)? is it works only in moblin or ubuntu is supported too? and what do you know about upcoming driver (I mean when it will be released or something)?
thanks,
sol1tude

Iegd works also on karmic.. look here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8635242&postcount=218)
Perfomance are not so good and i've no idea when a new driver will be released.

[Délicator]

I Dont think about that,
your script download lot of file from your space...

I think was only script, And it use files on other place, like launchpad

thanks you for reply, I'll wait until it's usable again

[ingcorra]

it may be possible to find a workaround to activate the shadowfb option while mantaining 3d acceleration? or this is technically impossible?

[oviguera]

I've also upgraded the poulsbo installation script.
Now it includes latest libva, mplayer-vaapi and some fixes for Acer 751h.
Attached Files http://ubuntuforums.org/images/attach/txt.gif poulsbo.sh.txt (http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=143323&d=1263240714) (3.8 KB, 41 views)
Sorry lucazade, I tried to get the drivers you sugested but I got this massage:

oskar@oskar-laptop:~$ wget http://gma500re.altervista.org/_altervista_ht/libdrm-poulsbo1_2.3.0-0ubuntu3netbook7_i386.deb -O /tmp/libdrm-poulsbo1_2.3.0-0ubuntu3netbook7_i386.deb
--2010-01-21 22:43:03-- http://gma500re.altervista.org/_altervista_ht/libdrm-poulsbo1_2.3.0-0ubuntu3netbook7_i386.deb
gma500re.altervista.org ebazten... 78.129.205.104
Connecting to gma500re.altervista.org|78.129.205.104|:80... konektatua.
HTTP eskaera bidalia, erantzunaren zain... 403 Forbidden
2010-01-21 22:43:04 ERROREA 403 Forbidden.

I'm doing something wrong. But I don't know what. I'm not experiencied with linux. I've just started using ubuntu.
Thanks for your help

[michael37]

Sorry lucazade, I tried to get the drivers you sugested but I got this massage:

oskar@oskar-laptop:~$ wget http://gma500re.altervista.org/_altervista_ht/libdrm-poulsbo1_2.3.0-0ubuntu3netbook7_i386.deb -O /tmp/libdrm-poulsbo1_2.3.0-0ubuntu3netbook7_i386.deb
--2010-01-21 22:43:03-- http://gma500re.altervista.org/_altervista_ht/libdrm-poulsbo1_2.3.0-0ubuntu3netbook7_i386.deb
gma500re.altervista.org ebazten... 78.129.205.104
Connecting to gma500re.altervista.org|78.129.205.104|:80... konektatua.
HTTP eskaera bidalia, erantzunaren zain... 403 Forbidden
2010-01-21 22:43:04 ERROREA 403 Forbidden.

I'm doing something wrong. But I don't know what. I'm not experiencied with linux. I've just started using ubuntu.
Thanks for your help

You are doing everything right, it's just lucazade ran out of bandwidth allocation for his hosting provider. Perhaps he can use ubuntu one service to host his files and link to them in the script?

[oviguera]

I've also upgraded the poulsbo installation script.
Now it includes latest libva, mplayer-vaapi and some fixes for Acer 751h.
Attached Files http://ubuntuforums.org/images/attach/txt.gif poulsbo.sh.txt (http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=143323&d=1263240714) (3.8 KB, 41 views)
Sorry lucazade, I tried to get the drivers you sugested but I got this massage:

oskar@oskar-laptop:~$ wget http://gma500re.altervista.org/_altervista_ht/libdrm-poulsbo1_2.3.0-0ubuntu3netbook7_i386.deb -O /tmp/libdrm-poulsbo1_2.3.0-0ubuntu3netbook7_i386.deb
--2010-01-21 22:43:03-- http://gma500re.altervista.org/_altervista_ht/libdrm-poulsbo1_2.3.0-0ubuntu3netbook7_i386.deb
gma500re.altervista.org ebazten... 78.129.205.104
Connecting to gma500re.altervista.org|78.129.205.104|:80... konektatua.
HTTP eskaera bidalia, erantzunaren zain... 403 Forbidden
2010-01-21 22:43:04 ERROREA 403 Forbidden.

I'm doing something wrong. But I don't know what. I'm not experiencied with linux. I've just started using ubuntu.
Thanks for your help

So, could anyone help me with this issue? I had the same problem when I tried to get the ppa at

wget http://gma500re.altervista.org/scripts/poulsbo_ppa.sh && sh ./poulsbo_ppa.shfollowing the instructions in this site:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo#karmic

I'm a bit baffled, so I'd thank whatever help you could offer.

[samusishere]

HI I am totaly confused. can these options even be used in ubuntu 9.04? i have 720p video working without the need to compile a new mplayer. 1080p as well although the sound is out of sync. it is also choppy in 720p at times. i would like to know how to fix this problem in ubuntu 9.04 as i do not have the time to switch to 9.10.

[samusishere]

HI I am totaly confused. can these options even be used in ubuntu 9.04? i have 720p video working without the need to compile a new mplayer. 1080p as well although the sound is out of sync. it is also choppy in 720p at times. i would like to know how to fix this problem in ubuntu 9.04 as i do not have the time to switch to 9.10.

i forgot to add that i have the acer aspire one 751h.

[michael37]

HI I am totaly confused. can these options even be used in ubuntu 9.04? i have 720p video working without the need to compile a new mplayer. 1080p as well although the sound is out of sync. it is also choppy in 720p at times. i would like to know how to fix this problem in ubuntu 9.04 as i do not have the time to switch to 9.10.

Most Atom processors can't play 720p content smoothly. What CPU do you have to go with your GMA500??

Regarding your 751H, From Cnet (http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/acer-aspire-one-751h/4505-3121_7-33676887.html)The bad: Slower version of the Intel Atom CPU makes even basic tasks annoyingly laggy.

Regarding 9.04, it is quite outdated with Firefox 3.5 not available etc. Not sure why you would want to stay on 9.04. It's not LTS.

[daxter77]

Hello

I try since two days to get the poulsbo script working, but having same problem as mentioned on previous page (no bandwidth).

Can someone who has the required files, upload them to a host with more bandwidth?
Would be great.

[kgingeri]

Hello

I try since two days to get the poulsbo script working, but having same problem as mentioned on previous page (no bandwidth).

Can someone who has the required files, upload them to a host with more bandwidth?
Would be great.

I think these are older files but they did work for me - after breaking psb-kernel-source from a kernel upgrade...
http://swiss.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7773647&postcount=13

lucazade, to avoid the bandwidth problem, why not just attach them to a post with ".txt" extentions - or tar and compress all files needed into an archive and upload to a post? Too big?

EDIT: I didn't realize that all I had to do was 'dpkg-reconfigure psb-kernel-source'.
I recovered from files (the three .deb files) at the link above, booted in 2.6.31-17 I ran 'dpkg -i ...' on each of them, and all is well.
I then did the reconfig when booted back into my latest 2.6.31-18 kernel and all is well!... I am running fine with:
$ uname -a
Linux ... 2.6.31-18-generic #55-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 8 14:55:26 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/LinuxOh yeah, and this is a ASUS T91MT netbook.

[lucazade]

The script will be available next week.. in the meanwhile i'll find an alternative place even if i'm really busy.

[samusishere]

Most Atom processors can't play 720p content smoothly. What CPU do you have to go with your GMA500??

Regarding your 751H,

Regarding 9.04, it is quite outdated with Firefox 3.5 not available etc. Not sure why you would want to stay on 9.04. It's not LTS.

ITS the z530 cpu. and im staying on it becouse i dont have alot of time to upgrade to 9.10 plus i really just want to wait until 10.04 as the new driver for the gma 500 may be implimented then. i also didnt feel compiz was as smooth as it was for me on 9.04

[samusishere]

ITS the z530 cpu. and im staying on it becouse i dont have alot of time to upgrade to 9.10 plus i really just want to wait until 10.04 as the new driver for the gma 500 may be implimented then. i also didnt feel compiz was as smooth as it was for me on 9.04

also the choppynes seams to have been fixed by adding the EEEapplet and overclocking. a few people told me to try it but i was skeptical since i dont have a EEEPC. this is only 720p though. im still haveing issues with 1080. as the audio is out of sync. but im hearing that 1080p content can be played smoothly with the mplayer VAPPI. but i do not know if i can use that on 9.04 or how to compile the player. im still learning my way around linux and would appricaite some help.

[modernshoggoth]

I'm in the same boat as samus - an AAO 751h.
I'd just like to say thanks lucazade for your nifty script, it saved my ****... but then I did a system update on Ubuntu 9.10 and it shafted everything... so I did what any guy who is a normal Windows user did, and reinstalled, only to find that we had wasted your 10gb of bandwith on altervista! Onoes! Hope you get it all up and running again soon man!

Thanks again!

[my-demise]

I'm in the same boat as samus - an AAO 751h.
I'd just like to say thanks lucazade for your nifty script, it saved my ****... but then I did a system update on Ubuntu 9.10 and it shafted everything... so I did what any guy who is a normal Windows user did, and reinstalled, only to find that we had wasted your 10gb of bandwith on altervista! Onoes! Hope you get it all up and running again soon man!

Thanks again!

I have a feeling we are not the only people in this situation. I've been searching for a mirror to these downloads for the past three days with no luck. If we can get this hosting issue resolved ASAP that would be fantastic. :)

[lucazade]

wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/Gma500/scripts/poulsbo.sh && sh ./poulsbo.sh

:popcorn:

[modernshoggoth]

Just ran it and it works a treat ^_^ thanks man

[Udibuntu]

wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/Gma500/scripts/poulsbo.sh && sh ./poulsbo.sh

:popcorn:

Thanks, but no go, some permission denied statements, and then then the display section appears as it should be, but logging off and on does not remedy the situation.

Per your earlier comment - reconfigure command did not help. Per my solution to an "unknown display" issue after an problematic xrandr work on the GMA500, I have removed the psb driver and wanted to re-install; that was when I I got the 403 error.

Would appreciate a fix or knowing if I did something wrong with the new path. Here is what I get (full log, so V long):

udi@udi-netbook:~$ wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/Gma500/scripts/poulsbo.sh && sh ./poulsbo.sh
--2010-01-25 23:00:32-- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/Gma500/scripts/poulsbo.sh
Resolving dl.dropbox.com... 75.101.129.115, 75.101.136.120, 75.101.142.97, ...
Connecting to dl.dropbox.com|75.101.129.115|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4370 (4.3K) [text/x-sh]
Saving to: `poulsbo.sh.9'

100%[======================================>] 4,370 26.3K/s in 0.2s

2010-01-25 23:00:33 (26.3 KB/s) - `poulsbo.sh.9' saved [4370/4370]

--2010-01-25 23:00:33-- http://gma500re.altervista.org/_altervista_ht/libdrm-poulsbo1_2.3.0-0ubuntu3netbook7_i386.deb
Resolving gma500re.altervista.org... 78.129.205.104
Connecting to gma500re.altervista.org|78.129.205.104|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2010-01-25 23:00:33 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

--2010-01-25 23:00:33-- http://gma500re.altervista.org/_altervista_ht/libva1_0.29-9-0ubuntu6netbook2_i386.deb
Resolving gma500re.altervista.org... 78.129.205.104
Connecting to gma500re.altervista.org|78.129.205.104|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2010-01-25 23:00:33 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

--2010-01-25 23:00:33-- http://gma500re.altervista.org/_altervista_ht/poulsbo-config_0.1_all.deb
Resolving gma500re.altervista.org... 78.129.205.104
Connecting to gma500re.altervista.org|78.129.205.104|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2010-01-25 23:00:34 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

--2010-01-25 23:00:34-- http://gma500re.altervista.org/_altervista_ht/poulsbo-driver-2d_1.1-0ubuntu1~904um1_all.deb
Resolving gma500re.altervista.org... 78.129.205.104
Connecting to gma500re.altervista.org|78.129.205.104|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2010-01-25 23:00:34 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

--2010-01-25 23:00:34-- http://gma500re.altervista.org/_altervista_ht/poulsbo-driver-3d_1.1-0ubuntu1~904um1_all.deb
Resolving gma500re.altervista.org... 78.129.205.104
Connecting to gma500re.altervista.org|78.129.205.104|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2010-01-25 23:00:35 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

--2010-01-25 23:00:35-- http://gma500re.altervista.org/_altervista_ht/psb-firmware_0.30-0ubuntu1netbook1_i386.deb
Resolving gma500re.altervista.org... 78.129.205.104
Connecting to gma500re.altervista.org|78.129.205.104|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2010-01-25 23:00:35 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

--2010-01-25 23:00:35-- http://gma500re.altervista.org/_altervista_ht/psb-kernel-headers_4.41.2-0ubuntu1~910um1_all.deb
Resolving gma500re.altervista.org... 78.129.205.104
Connecting to gma500re.altervista.org|78.129.205.104|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2010-01-25 23:00:35 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

--2010-01-25 23:00:35-- http://gma500re.altervista.org/_altervista_ht/psb-kernel-source_4.41.2-0ubuntu1~910um1_all.deb
Resolving gma500re.altervista.org... 78.129.205.104
Connecting to gma500re.altervista.org|78.129.205.104|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2010-01-25 23:00:36 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

--2010-01-25 23:00:36-- http://gma500re.altervista.org/_altervista_ht/psb-modules_4.41.2-0ubuntu1~910um1_i386.deb
Resolving gma500re.altervista.org... 78.129.205.104
Connecting to gma500re.altervista.org|78.129.205.104|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2010-01-25 23:00:36 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

--2010-01-25 23:00:36-- http://gma500re.altervista.org/_altervista_ht/xpsb-glx_0.18-0ubuntu1netbook1_i386.deb
Resolving gma500re.altervista.org... 78.129.205.104
Connecting to gma500re.altervista.org|78.129.205.104|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2010-01-25 23:00:36 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

--2010-01-25 23:00:36-- http://gma500re.altervista.org/_altervista_ht/xserver-xorg-video-psb_0.31.0-0ubuntu1~904um1_i386.deb
Resolving gma500re.altervista.org... 78.129.205.104
Connecting to gma500re.altervista.org|78.129.205.104|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2010-01-25 23:00:37 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

Hit http://archive.canonical.com karmic Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.canonical.com karmic/partner Translation-en_US
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security Release.gpg
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.canonical.com karmic Release
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty Release
Hit http://il.archive.ubuntu.com karmic Release.gpg
Ign http://il.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/universe Translation-en_US
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org karmic Release.gpg
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org karmic/free Translation-en_US
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org karmic/non-free Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security Release
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty Release
Hit http://archive.canonical.com karmic/partner Packages
Ign http://il.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://il.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://il.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://il.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://il.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://il.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://il.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://il.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org karmic Release
Hit http://il.archive.ubuntu.com karmic Release
Hit http://il.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main Sources
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org karmic/free Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main Packages
Hit http://il.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org karmic/non-free Packages
Hit http://il.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/restricted Packages
Hit http://il.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Sources
Hit http://il.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/restricted Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/universe Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/universe Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/multiverse Sources
Hit http://il.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
Hit http://il.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Sources
Hit http://il.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Packages
Hit http://il.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Sources
Hit http://il.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Packages
Hit http://il.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://il.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Sources
Hit http://il.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://il.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://il.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://il.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://il.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/multiverse Sources
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
dkms is already the newest version.
fakeroot is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 26 not upgraded.
Reading package lists: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Failed to open the software package
The package might be corrupted or you are not allowed to open the file. Check the permissions of the file.
Reading package lists: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Failed to open the software package
The package might be corrupted or you are not allowed to open the file. Check the permissions of the file.
Reading package lists: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Failed to open the software package
The package might be corrupted or you are not allowed to open the file. Check the permissions of the file.
Reading package lists: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Failed to open the software package
The package might be corrupted or you are not allowed to open the file. Check the permissions of the file.
Reading package lists: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Failed to open the software package
The package might be corrupted or you are not allowed to open the file. Check the permissions of the file.
Reading package lists: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Failed to open the software package
The package might be corrupted or you are not allowed to open the file. Check the permissions of the file.
Reading package lists: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Failed to open the software package
The package might be corrupted or you are not allowed to open the file. Check the permissions of the file.
Reading package lists: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Failed to open the software package
The package might be corrupted or you are not allowed to open the file. Check the permissions of the file.
Reading package lists: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Failed to open the software package
The package might be corrupted or you are not allowed to open the file. Check the permissions of the file.
Reading package lists: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Failed to open the software package
The package might be corrupted or you are not allowed to open the file. Check the permissions of the file.
Reading package lists: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Failed to open the software package
The package might be corrupted or you are not allowed to open the file. Check the permissions of the file.
blacklist i915
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-17-generic
Section "Device"
Identifier "GMA500"
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
Option "IgnoreACPI" "yes"
Driver "psb"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
udi@udi-netbook:~$


Udi

[lucazade]

Thanks, but no go, some permission denied statements, and then then the display section appears as it should be, but logging off and on does not remedy the situation.

Per your earlier comment - reconfigure command did not help. Per my solution to an "unknown display" issue after an problematic xrandr work on the GMA500, I have removed the psb driver and wanted to re-install; that was when I I got the 403 error.

Would appreciate a fix or knowing if I did something wrong with the new path. Here is what I get (full log, so V long):



Udi

Simply because you're running an old version of the script.. remove old poulsbo.sh files on your computer and run again.

Saving to: `poulsbo.sh.9'

[Udibuntu]

Simply because you're running an old version of the script.. remove old poulsbo.sh files on your computer and run again.

Cheers for the fast response; sorry for the dumb question but how do I remove those files?

I answered myself, rm them... sorry for being daft.

UPDATE - it works after rm'ing the poulsbo.sh files, installing, removing, installing, reconfiguring for kernel .17 and restarting x.

Thanks Luca, you're the man!

[undfined]

wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/Gma500/scripts/poulsbo.sh && sh ./poulsbo.sh:popcorn:

Thank you!! :D

[Kreativ]

As I was unable to get the original post to work, as it couldn't apt-get the files needed after being sent to this thread as it is supposed to work for Asus EEE 1101HA (According to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1274871). I am not wondering wether this command

wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/Gma500/scripts/poulsbo.sh && sh ./poulsbo.sh

Everyone talks about will do the same thing as the original post was intended to do, and will it do everything I need? Do I need to add something more to any files like the xorg.conf or blacklist.conf?

Thanks for any reply :)

[lucazade]

Everyone talks about will do the same thing as the original post was intended to do
It does the same things as my original one.

Try to remove old poulsbo.sh scripts on your pc and run it again.
Paste the output of the script here (http://pastebin.com/)

[oviguera]

wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/Gma500/scripts/poulsbo.sh && sh ./poulsbo.sh:popcorn:

Thanks a lot lucasade. It worked really fine on my Vaio P. Congratulations!! and thanks again.

[michael37]

@lucazade, suggested bug fix

# Compiz whitelist
sed -i 's/i810 fglrx/i810 fglrx psb/g' /usr/bin/compiz

should be

# Compiz whitelist
sudo sed -i 's/i810 fglrx/i810 fglrx psb/g' /usr/bin/compiz


probably the same for Acer stuff; I don't have Acer, so I haven't tested users permission for those lines.

[michael37]

Another bug found. After running poulsbo.sh on a Karmic fresh install, mplayer-vaapi package (did you build it yourself?) installs without zillion dependencies. I am going to hunt them down and test. So far, the problem with libraries not found is fairly nasty.

http://pastebin.com/m5a09fc8


UPDATE: Manually installed the dependencies, now mplayer works. Hardware acceleration works for me only if mplayer is invoked from command line:
mplayer -vo vaapi -va vaapi file.mp4 (or file.avi)

Yes, that means playing 1080p content on Atom Z520 with GMA 500!

Smplayer (frontend) is not able to invoke mplayer with hardware acceleration, not sure why. I configured video output to vaapi and put -va vaapi in "additional command line options".

[michael37]

The most critical problem so far!

On my Dell Mini 12, the new version of the script breaks 3D graphics, EXA acceleration and Xvideo output! I found the culprit: it's line
Option "ExaMem" "131072"
in xorg.conf.

The problem is not obvious initially, in fact, gtkperf gives better performance results with this line.

[jbernardo]

Smplayer (frontend) is not able to invoke mplayer with hardware acceleration, not sure why. I configured video output to vaapi and put -va vaapi in "additional command line options".

Make sure you uncheck "enable screenshots" in smplayer preferences, it should now work with vaapi.

I still can't get subtitles to work. It seems to work fine just after a reboot, but a second try and mplayer dies with a error 11.

[lucazade]

@lucazade, suggested bug fix

# Compiz whitelist
sed -i 's/i810 fglrx/i810 fglrx psb/g' /usr/bin/compiz

should be

# Compiz whitelist
sudo sed -i 's/i810 fglrx/i810 fglrx psb/g' /usr/bin/compiz


probably the same for Acer stuff; I don't have Acer, so I haven't tested users permission for those lines.

fixed.
thanks!

[lucazade]

Another bug found. After running poulsbo.sh on a Karmic fresh install, mplayer-vaapi package (did you build it yourself?) installs without zillion dependencies. I am going to hunt them down and test. So far, the problem with libraries not found is fairly nasty.

http://pastebin.com/m5a09fc8


UPDATE: Manually installed the dependencies, now mplayer works. Hardware acceleration works for me only if mplayer is invoked from command line:
mplayer -vo vaapi -va vaapi file.mp4 (or file.avi)

Yes, that means playing 1080p content on Atom Z520 with GMA 500!

Smplayer (frontend) is not able to invoke mplayer with hardware acceleration, not sure why. I configured video output to vaapi and put -va vaapi in "additional command line options".

i didn't tested the package so far.. yes i've build it myself.
i'll see for dependencies.

[lucazade]

The most critical problem so far!

On my Dell Mini 12, the new version of the script breaks 3D graphics, EXA acceleration and Xvideo output! I found the culprit: it's line
Option "ExaMem" "131072"
in xorg.conf.

The problem is not obvious initially, in fact, gtkperf gives better performance results with this line.

On my acer 751h examem limit is 131mb, using 256mb breaks acceleration.
I'll fix this in the script. thanks ;)

[crownedzero]

After much hesitation I've decided to upgrae to Karmic. I'm running on a Dell Mini 10; from the sounds of it things are going fairly smoothly? Just grab the script and run it correct? Are there any other specifics I need to take into consideration? I would like to be able to use 3d effects as well.

I also noted on another post that a higher resolution is possible, is this something you are planning to incorporate into your script?

[michael37]

After much hesitation I've decided to upgrae to Karmic. I'm running on a Dell Mini 10; from the sounds of it things are going fairly smoothly? Just grab the script and run it correct? Are there any other specifics I need to take into consideration? I would like to be able to use 3d effects as well.

I also noted on another post that a higher resolution is possible, is this something you are planning to incorporate into your script?

The script is still a bit in works, but you should have a great experience with video performance and with resolution after running this script (as long as you don't have Mini 10v -- that one uses a slower albeit better supported graphics).

I am trying to keep the main message of this thread up-to-date in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo.

Specifically for Dell mini, you will need to comment out a line in Xorg.conf to avoid hangs.

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Change
Option "ExaMem" "131072"
to
#Option "ExaMem" "131072"

[lucazade]

Specifically for Dell mini, you will need to comment out a line in Xorg.conf to avoid hangs.

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Change
Option "ExaMem" "131072"
to
#Option "ExaMem" "131072"


I've fixed this option, just enable on demand.

[michael37]

I've fixed this option, just enable on demand.

You rock, thank you!

[crownedzero]

After a fresh install of Karmic I have run the poulsbo script and done a full update. I then reconfigured the psb kernel per the instructions. After doing so I was unable to enable desktops effects, so I checked the compiz whitelisted drivers and noted psb was not among them. After adding I tried to enable 3d effects again this time it seemed to go through except it never fully recovered and left me with just the desktop wallpaper and mouse i.e. taskbars etc were not present.I was unable to exit to a console via hotkeys so essentially I had to do a hard reset.

Any ideas?

[dragilla]

Have you tried alt-f2 combination?
Also you can always (well most of the times) do crtl-alt-f1 to exit to the console. Then restart X.

If you can alt-f2 you can try:

compiz --replace &


Also I recomend using magic-sysrq instead of hard-reset.
Do alt-sysrq-s twice to sync
and then alt-sysrq-b to reboot.
This way you will most probably aviod disk errors after reboot.
Hard reset is the last thing to do :)

cheers,

[danicero]

I'm absolutely noob, so please be patient with me :P
here's the thing: I've installed ubuntu remix 9.10 on my acer aspire one AO751h.
then I followed the official ubuntu guide https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo/ to set up the GMA500.
but when I reboot after that I have only a tty1 flashing screen, so it's impossible to login again...
the only solution I found is to reboot in recovery mode and rm etc/X11/xorg.conf to go back to the starting point :/
any advice?

thank you!!! :)

[jarodrig]

Anybody has tried install psb driver in a system with ubuntu 10.04? I have problems with xorg-xserver-core and xorg-xserver-video-5 and xserver-xorg-video-psb conflicts. I can't post any logs sorry.

I have Nokia booklet 3g.

Update: I identified the problem. It is because the lastest version of xorg don't have support of resVgaShared symbol :(

[jarodrig]

I'm absolutely noob, so please be patient with me :P
here's the thing: I've installed ubuntu remix 9.10 on my acer aspire one AO751h.
then I followed the official ubuntu guide https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo/ to set up the GMA500.
but when I reboot after that I have only a tty1 flashing screen, so it's impossible to login again...
the only solution I found is to reboot in recovery mode and rm etc/X11/xorg.conf to go back to the starting point :/
any advice?

thank you!!! :)

Try with older version of xorg.conf or the old method of that manual. the xorg.conf is not equal between both methods

[blur xc]

I don't think you need to keep reinstalling, "sudo dpkg-reconfigure psb-kernel-source" should be enough to rebuild the kernel modules.

Thanks! The command worked like a charm- I made a bash alias for it.

BM

[mktg82]

Excuse me for my noob question, is it possible to install only 2D drivers? I'm not interested in 3D and compiz...

I'm using Xubuntu 9.10 on Asus 1201ha. I read here (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo#karmic) that there are two methods, the old one and the newest. Which one should I use?

P.S.
I don't know my kernel version because my netbook is recharging right now.

[michael37]

Excuse me for my noob question, is it possible to install only 2D drivers? I'm not interested in 3D and compiz...

I'm using Xubuntu 9.10 on Asus 1201ha. I read here (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo#karmic) that there are two methods, the old one and the newest. Which one should I use?

P.S.
I don't know my kernel version because my netbook is recharging right now.

Use the new method. The driver provides both 2D and 3D, (it just does), but you can disable compiz: simply go to System->Preferences->Appearance and set Visual Effects to none.

[jlacroix]

I have a Dell Inspiron 1010 and I ran the shell script, so now I have full resolution video. Unfortunately now I have frequent random lockups as well. I'm thinking I should just reload Windows but I *really* don't want to use Windows. (I'd probably just stop using the netbook at all). Is there a fix for the random lockups?

xorg.conf:
Section "Device"
Identifier "GMA500"
Driver "psb"
Option "DownScale" "false"
Option "ExaNoComposite" "false"
#Option "ExaMem" "131072"
#Option "ExaScratch" "4"
#Option "ExaCached" "false"
Option "IgnoreACPI" "true"
Option "LidTimer" "false"
Option "NoAccel" "false"
Option "NoFitting" "false"
Option "NoPanel" "false"
Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
Option "ShadowFB" "false"
Option "SWcursor" "false"
Option "Vsync" "false"
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
Option "DRI" "off"
Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
Option "RENDER" "Enable"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontZap" "False"
EndSection

[jbernardo]

I have a Dell Inspiron 1010 and I ran the shell script, so now I have full resolution video. Unfortunately now I have frequent random lockups as well. I'm thinking I should just reload Windows but I *really* don't want to use Windows. (I'd probably just stop using the netbook at all). Is there a fix for the random lockups?


Try passing "mem=2000mb" to the kernel string, as is in the wiki. Since you have the "IgnoreACPI" entry in xorg.conf, I can't think of another reason for the random lockups.

[jlacroix]

Try passing "mem=2000mb" to the kernel string, as is in the wiki. Since you have the "IgnoreACPI" entry in xorg.conf, I can't think of another reason for the random lockups.

Do I still pass mem=2000mb to the kernel string even though I only have 1GB of RAM?

[jbernardo]

Do I still pass mem=2000mb to the kernel string even though I only have 1GB of RAM?

In that case, something like 1000mb or 980mb. It seems to solve the hangups at least on the vaio.

[jlacroix]

In that case, something like 1000mb or 980mb. It seems to solve the hangups at least on the vaio.

Now this is strange. I set my video mode to "UXA", and that seems to have fixed the problem. However, sometimes when I start my computer the netbook launcher will stop responding and then it will dump me into low graphics mode. (This doesn't happen every time).

[SlonUA]

this is my xorg.conf


Section "Device"
Identifier "GMA500"
Driver "psb"
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
Option "IgnoreACPI" "true"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
Option "RENDER" "Enable"
EndSection


everything is working in perfect way on 9.10.
but, i use psb-kernel-source 4.41.6.

https://edge.launchpad.net/~lucazade/+archive/gma500

and also xserver-xorg-video-psb 0.31.0 from here

https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mobile/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter=jaunty

[russki_drewski]

Okay, so I just updated my kernel to 2.6.31-19. Instead of running:

dpkg-reconfigure psb-kernel-source

I just downloaded the new script and ran it on my computer so I could take advantage of all the new updates that have happened recently.

So it worked great. I even get full compiz effects, which I haven't ever had reliably work on my AO-751; HOWEVER, suspend doesn't work now. It will suspend, but on wake up it shows a black screen and I have to ctr-alt-del it and restart. Hibernate works wonderfully though.

Is there anything I could do to get suspend working with the compiz effects?

Also I read on the wiki it is often better to stay with kernel *-14 because it works better and the sound is more stable. umm ... too late. If I decide that I need to switch back kernels, how can roll back the kernel and have things loaded under that?

Thanks in advance,
russki_drewski

[jbernardo]

I've had suspend issues with the last kernels, and I wasn't sure if its the kernels or KDE SC 4.4 betas.
Many times it is just a case of doing sysrq-k to kill X and I'm back at the graphic login prompt.

[russki_drewski]

@ jbernardo

sysrq-k ... is that a terminal command I need to run? How would I run it if I do not have screen output?

Thanks,
russki_drewski

Karmic 9.10


btw
Has anyone heard any news about the new gma500 drivers that intel is supposedly coming out with? Is it real or only a rumor?

[modafokaxx]

Same problem here, on a Dell Mini 12 running Karmic 9.10 and a 2.6.31-19 kernel.

Resume after suspend gives a blank screen.
Two things however:
- The password field is actually there, and when hovered over, the cursor becomes a text cursor. Entering the password will unlock the session and take you to the desktop... all of this with the screen still black. Weird.
- Switching to tty1 with ctrl+alt+F1 and then back to the current X session with ctrl+alt+F7 will bring the desktop back up normally, ie: removing the black screen problem.
Might be a useful workaround for those killing their X session and therefore losing their work in progress.
At least suspend is usable this way, albeit annoying.

[russki_drewski]

@ modafokaxx

Thanks! I'm glad to see there is a way to use suspend. One thing about coming out of suspend in that way, it left my wireless disabled. Seems like for some reason a few settings are getting overlooked when resuming. Wish I knew how to fix that. But I'm happy for what I got. :)

[michael37]

Okay, so I just updated my kernel to 2.6.31-19. Instead of running:

dpkg-reconfigure psb-kernel-source

I just downloaded the new script and ran it on my computer so I could take advantage of all the new updates that have happened recently.

So it worked great. I even get full compiz effects, which I haven't ever had reliably work on my AO-751; HOWEVER, suspend doesn't work now. It will suspend, but on wake up it shows a black screen and I have to ctr-alt-del it and restart. Hibernate works wonderfully though.

Is there anything I could do to get suspend working with the compiz effects?

Also I read on the wiki it is often better to stay with kernel *-14 because it works better and the sound is more stable. umm ... too late. If I decide that I need to switch back kernels, how can roll back the kernel and have things loaded under that?

Thanks in advance,
russki_drewski

1. I have not figured out suspend with compiz. I have no idea why it's not working. Try this: run metacity instead of compiz (metacity --replace &), then suspend, then resume (should work) and start compiz again (compiz --replace &).

Does that work?

2. IMHO the issue of -14 vs -19 kernel are overblown. Some users of some netbooks have issues with newer releases. Absolute majority does not. I run -19 with no stability or driver issues.

[crownedzero]

Isn't their a higher native resolution for the GMA500? Is there anything close to this for us?

[michael37]

Isn't their a higher native resolution for the GMA500? Is there anything close to this for us?

Not sure I understand you. The (native) resolution is first and foremost determined by your LCD screen. VESA (fallback non-accelerated) driver doesn't support native resolutions of netbook LCD screens. Psb driver described in this thread does.

[samusishere]

hi, im posting to find out the current state of the gma 500 drivers for ubuntu 9.10. is the graphics performance better then in ubuntu 9.04? and i have a acer aspire one 751h should i stay with 9.04 or switch? i dont really use firefox since it has a slow scrolling issue. i use google chrome but even it sometimes scrolls slower then normal. if you have 9.10, have the gma 500, and run compiz on a acer aspire one 751h. can you give me the compiz fusion benchmark framerate please. i get about 30-36fps

[michael37]

hi, im posting to find out the current state of the gma 500 drivers for ubuntu 9.10. is the graphics performance better then in ubuntu 9.04? and i have a acer aspire one 751h should i stay with 9.04 or switch? i dont really use firefox since it has a slow scrolling issue. i use google chrome but even it sometimes scrolls slower then normal. if you have 9.10, have the gma 500, and run compiz on a acer aspire one 751h. can you give me the compiz fusion benchmark framerate please. i get about 30-36fps

Feel free to upgrade to 9.10. At this point of time, both 9.04 and 9.10 use the same identical driver, so you will get the same identical graphics performance and better/faster/more stable other software (ESP compiz).

I haven't got a clue about your problem with scrolling. I am using Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu 9.10 and it works OK (a tad sluggish but very usable). I downloaded Swiftfox 3.6 (Prescott build) and it is working noticeably faster.

[ingcorra]

please someone tell me what is this IEGD 10.3 -> http://edc.intel.com/Software/Downloads/IEGD/#overview

it's HIM??? :o

[samusishere]

hi, i have a acer aspire one 751h and i have ubuntu 9.04. i have everything done corecctly except i cant get my system to wake from suspend. i have HAL mailing list fix but i think im doing something wrong or a word is out of place. can someone who has my model and has succsefully done this plaease point out what is wrong.

<match key="system.hardware.product" string="AO751h">
<merge key="power_management.quirk.dpms_on" type="bool">true</merge>
<merge key="power_management.quirk.vbemode_restore" type="bool">true</merge>
<merge key="power_management.quirk.vbestate_restore" type="bool">true</merg$
</match>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>

is there enything out of place? it has always worked before but this is the 3rd time i have had to reinstall

thans for the help !

[auri]

samusishere: poulsbo driver cannot wake up from resume if compiz is enabled. if you turn it off, it does work. And if still does not, well......

<merge key="power_management.quirk.vbestate_restore" type="bool">true</merg$ <<<< </merge>

btw, why do u have to reinstall 3 times?
using ao751h and karmic here. and it does work, except when compiz enabled.

[samusishere]

because my prevous install, wich had been work exceptionally ell for 3 months. had lost wireless support for some reason.

[samusishere]

oh and i was able to get it to suspend and awake sucsessfully but on wake up it takes lie 1 to 20 secs to wake and give me the unlock screen. it never used to be this slow. is there enything i can do to make it wake up faster?

[samusishere]

hi i have another question lol. did they fix the issues on the acer aspire one 751h and ubuntu 9.10 when it comes to suspend issues and the brightnesss keys not working? thats the main thing keeping me from upgradeing

[pjman]

I have been following this and other threads regarding the GMA 500. I came across the following info in a thread about the Dell Mini 12 (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1014534). I have not read the info below in this thread so I thought I'd post it in case it will help other GMA 500 users.

**Screen brightness and Hibernation not working**

sudo vi /etc/default/grub

Add acpi_backlight=vendor to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line


GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor"

Until recently I read that it was suggested to have nolapic as an option too. Removing this seems to have sped up my Dell Mini 10 especially while watching Flash videos.


**Sound not working after hibernate / suspend**

sudo vi /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

comment the current options line and add new one with model=dell

#options snd-hda-intel power_save=10 power_save_controller=N
options snd-hda-intel model=auto

I have also read that this works (and this is what I have for my Dell Mini 10):

options snd-hda-intel model=dell

I do not know which one is better.

I hope this helps.

[auri]

suspend issue is poulsbo related, so far, driver in jaunty and karmic are the same (i think). and about brightness key, mine with karmic doesn't work either, but its a minor anyway, u can always change it with bright applet. jaunty has better suppport for poulsbo, i guess, if you be able to suspend/resume with compiz working. in karmic, it just blank :p

[samusishere]

heyyy guyss i think i have a little news for ya. idk if you guys already knew this but in ubuntu 9.04, after installing the gma 500 drivers. the shutdown splash screen no longer apears. well the solution i recently fount was to download start up mamager, go into the splash screen setings, and set the settings to 1024x768 and presto! the shutdown splashscreen is back. One thing though. i dont know if this works in karmic, and i have a 1366x768 display but if you have a lower res display the res i just provided might need to be a little bit lower.. hopee this helps enyone that is a profectionest likee me ! chearss

[michael37]

I have been following this and other threads regarding the GMA 500. I came across the following info in a thread about the Dell Mini 12 (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1014534). I have not read the info below in this thread so I thought I'd post it in case it will help other GMA 500 users.

**Screen brightness and Hibernation not working**

From the same thread, How To Fix Brightness (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8860939&postcount=838).

[jurekiteresa]

Hi
Unfortunatelly it doesn't work on Acer Aspire One 751 :(

Regrads

Jurek

[my-demise]

Has anyone here had a chance to test IEGD on their GMA500 based device?

I've read through the following article which clearly explains how to install the IEGD driver to an "unsupported" distribution (Karmic) and am wondering whether anyone has seen a performance increase using these over the Poulsbo driver detailed in this thread?

http://www.nanoant.com/linux/compiling-kernel-iegd-10x-module-for-any-linux-distribution

I'm at work currently but am very much looking forward to heading home later today to test this out.

[Amyako]

I tested IEGD 10.3 on my asus-t91 netbook.


2d performance is good, except drawing circles, or something like that, gtkperf -a shows about 80 secs, of which ~55 - 60 secs only for drawing circles.

3d performance is very good, glxgears shows ~2500 frames in 5 seconds

But compiz is not working, and also i tried to compile va-api and mplayer, but unsuccessfully.
altough there are many options in xorg.conf, need to understand them better.
Suspend and hibernate also not working.

I wrote script for auto compiling iegd 10.3 based on adam's guide, if someone intrested in this, i could upload this script after i return to home.

//sorry for bad english -_-

[jbernardo]

I wrote script for auto compiling iegd 10.3 based on adam's guide, if someone intrested in this, i could upload this script after i return to home.

Please do, I'd like to try this next weekend, and a script to automate all the steps always helps... :)

[my-demise]

Just working on getting a fresh install of Karmic going before I try running though the above mentioned IEGD walk through. I am really looking forward to see the results!

Edit:
If you're able to upload that script to automate this process that would be great, also we should possibly consider starting a new thread dedicated to this discussion?

[lucazade]

Fitpc2 repository (http://fit-pc2.com/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_Ubuntu_9.10)contains IEGD 10.3beta for Karmic so why recompile?

It would be interesting a patch for Xorg 1.7/Lucid Lynx.

[ingcorra]

I can just remove the current driver (installed from your script) and install the fitpc2 version or it will need some custom xorg.conf parameter? however, which is the better one?

[samusishere]

i have ubuntu, and i have a very hard question that need answerd. how do i install flash player 10.1 beta 3 that ads gma 500 support? i have looked everywhere and no one has posted enything on it yet.i have a acer aspire one 751h and ubuntu 9.04. and i know it can be installed in 9.04 so. please help me.

[pjman]

Beta 2 instructions are shown here - http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8653116&postcount=233


I just downloaded beta 3 and it seems to work well.

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

[HugoChauvet]

I tested IEGD 10.3 on my asus-t91 netbook.


2d performance is good, except drawing circles, or something like that, gtkperf -a shows about 80 secs, of which ~55 - 60 secs only for drawing circles.

3d performance is very good, glxgears shows ~2500 frames in 5 seconds

But compiz is not working, and also i tried to compile va-api and mplayer, but unsuccessfully.
altough there are many options in xorg.conf, need to understand them better.
Suspend and hibernate also not working.

I wrote script for auto compiling iegd 10.3 based on adam's guide, if someone intrested in this, i could upload this script after i return to home.

//sorry for bad english -_-

Yes, please can you upload your script for auto compiling iegd 10.3. Thx

[michael37]

For Linux aficionados...

I just updated kernel version from 2.6.31-17 to 2.6.31-19 and didn't feel like rebooting/going into safe mode to rebuild my psb driver.

So I ran a simple command white still booted into old kernel

sudo dkms build -m psb-kernel-source -v 4.41.6 -k 2.6.31-19-generic && sudo dkms install -m psb-kernel-source -v 4.41.6 -k 2.6.31-19-generic


Very easy, \\:D/ ?

[SlonUA]

it's enough just hit when boot with new kernel
sudo dpkg-reconfigure psb-kernel-source

[samusishere]

Umm this is a quite random question but do you guys know how to make scrolling in chrome faster then it is? i would really like to get this fixed. like if there is something that i can add to xorg it would be apreciated. thanksss

[SlonUA]

lucazade: something wrong with xpsb-glx
i have issue with glxinfo

$ glxinfo
glxinfo: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

is it correct !?
$ sudo dpkg -S libGL.so.1
diversion by xpsb-glx from: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
diversion by xpsb-glx to: /usr/lib/psb/libGL.so.1.xlibmesa
libgl1-mesa-glx: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
diversion by xpsb-glx from: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
diversion by xpsb-glx to: /usr/lib/psb/libGL.so.1.xlibmesa
diversion by xpsb-glx from: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2
diversion by xpsb-glx to: /usr/lib/psb/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa
diversion by xpsb-glx from: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2
diversion by xpsb-glx to: /usr/lib/psb/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa
libgl1-mesa-glx: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2

[SlonUA]

so, resolved only by linking /usr/lib/psb/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa

[ingcorra]

Umm this is a quite random question but do you guys know how to make scrolling in chrome faster then it is? i would really like to get this fixed. like if there is something that i can add to xorg it would be apreciated. thanksss

I use in xorg.xonf :

option shadowfb="true"

2D is way faster but seems to disable any type of hardware acceleration. however I think this is the only way to make it usable

[samusishere]

hi um i have another problem, im sorry i just keep doing stupid things with my computer, um when i try to log in to the desk top all i get is the backround and the cursor and a termanl, i can move the mouse and everything but i dont know what to do from there, the last thing that i remember doing before all this was disableing some serveces but i dont know how to get back to it...... please help me figure this out. if you know how to enable all the default services again from the termanel please help me. thank you in advance, this is really importent as i need to use my computer for school on monday so i have to figure this out.

[samusishere]

I fixed the problem, it was due to a update uninstalling the gnome desktop, witch was weird. but i have another question, has enyone herd of how to install drivers on ubuntu 10.04 with the gma 500 as i would really like to upgrade but i herd that it is a xorg problem? is this correct? is the issue being worked on so that it can be resolved?

[samusishere]

ugh, i have another question and i know im driveing people insane. i downloaded the flash player 10.1 beta 3 on my acer aspire one 751h, installed it in google chrome, and tried to watch a video, the playback is actwally worse then with beta 2. has enyone else encounterd this?

[Amyako]

Finally, i'm now ready to a new battle with gma500 and here is my weapon =)

But first you must delete all old psb-driver packages and update kernel to 2.6.31-19

Xorg.conf included in this script enables dri2, it may be unstable on some devices, but you can disable it in xorg.conf if something goes wrong.

Also, xorg logs show an error message that it can not enable aiglx, i think it is a main problem of bad 2d performance when drawing images(slow firefox scrolling when pictures presented on page, for example) , so it has been disabled in my xorg.conf too.

wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4981681/iegd103 && sh iegd103//Warning: this post contains a very bad english

[lucazade]

Finally, i'm now ready to a new battle with gma500 and here is my weapon =)

But first you must delete all old psb-driver packages and update kernel to 2.6.31-19

Xorg.conf included in this script enables dri2, it may be unstable on some devices, but you can disable it in xorg.conf if something goes wrong.

Also, xorg logs show an error message that it can not enable aiglx, i think it is a main problem of bad 2d performance when drawing images(slow firefox scrolling when pictures presented on page, for example) , so it has been disabled in my xorg.conf too.

wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4981681/iegd103 && sh iegd103//Warning: this post contains a very bad english

Thanks for sharing! ;)

[HugoChauvet]

Nice script, I have just modified my xorg.conf for my asus eeepc 1201Ha and it works great. Still no compiz effects but glxgears gives me more than 2000 fps.
I try it with gnome shell and their have little display bugs, maybe some options in xorg.conf need to be modified.


**Sorry for the bad English

[Anfanglir]

Thanx!

the xorg.conf the script generates dont work on the Fujitsu u820 (GMA500) though, the screen is too narrow and divided (cloned) into 1,5 desktops.

I tried to change the xorg.conf manually to 1280x800 but that give me a black screen. A random choice of 1280x600 works (but still the problem of the cloned desktop, one on top, the upper part of the next below.

Any suggestions on what to change in xorg.conf? (I tried setting dri2 to "0" but no change)

thanks / Anfanglir

[Amyako]

Thanx!

the xorg.conf the script generates dont work on the Fujitsu u820 (GMA500) though, the screen is too narrow and divided (cloned) into 1,5 desktops.

I tried to change the xorg.conf manually to 1280x800 but that give me a black screen. A random choice of 1280x600 works (but still the problem of the cloned desktop, one on top, the upper part of the next below.

Any suggestions on what to change in xorg.conf? (I tried setting dri2 to "0" but no change)

thanks / Anfanglir

set this to 1
Option "ALL/1/Port/4/General/Edid" "0"and this to 1 or 3
Option "ALL/1/Port/4/General/EdidAvail" "0"i hope this will help x_x

[Anfanglir]

Nope didn't work. Thanks all the same :)

/ Anfanglir

[HugoChauvet]

Hi, maybe try to comment some lines in your xorg.conf, I give you my xorg.conf:

#Section "Screen"
# Identifier "Screen0"
# Device "Intel_IEGD-0"
# Monitor "Monitor0"
# DefaultDepth 24
# SubSection "Display"
# Depth 24
# Modes "1366x768"
# EndSubSection
#EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
# HorizSync 60
# VertRefresh 60
Option "dpms"
EndSection
# Primary (First/only) display
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel_IEGD-0"
Driver "iegd"
VendorName "Intel(R) DEG"
BoardName "Embedded Graphics"
BusID "0:2:0"
Screen 0
Option "PcfVersion" "1792"
Option "ConfigId" "1"
Option "ALL/1/name" "dih965"
Option "ALL/1/General/PortOrder" "42000"
Option "ALL/1/General/DisplayConfig" "8"
Option "ALL/1/General/DisplayDetect" "0"
Option "ALL/1/General/DRI" "1"
Option "ALL/1/General/DRI2" "0"
Option "ALL/1/General/CloneRefresh" "60"
Option "ALL/1/General/CloneWidth" "1366"
Option "ALL/1/General/CloneHeight" "768"
Option "ALL/1/Port/4/General/name" "LVDS"
Option "ALL/1/Port/4/General/EdidAvail" "0"
Option "ALL/1/Port/4/General/EdidNotAvail" "5"
Option "ALL/1/Port/4/General/Rotation" "0"
Option "ALL/1/Port/4/General/Edid" "0"
Option "ALL/1/Port/4/FpInfo/BkltMethod" "0"
Option "ALL/1/Port/4/Dtd/1/PixelClock" "54720"
Option "ALL/1/Port/4/Dtd/1/HorzActive" "1366"
Option "ALL/1/Port/4/Dtd/1/HorzSync" "230"
Option "ALL/1/Port/4/Dtd/1/HorzSyncPulse" "16"
Option "ALL/1/Port/4/Dtd/1/HorzBlank" "476"
Option "ALL/1/Port/4/Dtd/1/VertActive" "768"
Option "ALL/1/Port/4/Dtd/1/VertSync" "4"
Option "ALL/1/Port/4/Dtd/1/VertSyncPulse" "1"
Option "ALL/1/Port/4/Dtd/1/VertBlank" "8"
Option "ALL/1/Port/4/Dtd/1/Flags" "0x20000"
Option "ALL/1/Port/4/Attr/27" "0"
Option "ALL/1/Port/4/Attr/26" "18"
Option "ALL/1/Port/4/Attr/60" "1"
Option "ALL/1/Port/2/General/name" "DVI"
Option "ALL/1/Port/2/General/EdidAvail" "3"
Option "ALL/1/Port/2/General/EdidNotAvail" "1"
Option "ALL/1/Port/2/General/Rotation" "0"
Option "ALL/1/Port/2/General/Edid" "1"
Option "PortDrivers" "lvds sdvo"
EndSection
#Section "ServerLayout"
# Identifier "Default Layout"
# Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
# Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
# InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
# InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
# InputDevice "DevInputMice" "SendCoreEvents"
#EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Intel_IEGD-1"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
# DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
#Depth 24
Modes "1366x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "False"
Option "AIGLX" "False"
Option "GlxVisuals" "all"
EndSection



Maybe this can help you ...

[Anfanglir]

Hi!
I lost patience and installed Mandriva 2010 instead, sorry.

Looking at your xorg.conf, mine (from memory) seemed to have more stuff about secondary display (screen1) and in the Display subsection in the end there were two resolutions defined, yours say
Modes "1366x768"
mine said something along:
Modes "1024x768" "1280x1024"
(dont remember exactly, and I changed it to "1280x800" "1280x800" [not working] and "1280x600" "1280x600" [almost working]. So I guess this was the problem with my config.

If you guys get suspend/resume working with poulsbo I will probably switch back to Ubuntu on the u820, but I'll try Mandriva for a while now since suspend/resume works (at least with a clean install). As with Ubuntu, an kernel-update borks xorg and while I managed to get xorg running again after manual installation of psb packages, resume now fails in Mandriva, arghhh).

On a related note, the Jolicloud team claims (once more) to have made a break through on the GMA 500 drivers:
"Cedric DUCLOS, Official Rep, replied 11 days ago
For those users who still have an issue with the GMA 500 (i.e. a blank screen), send us an email to get an up-to-date ISO with new GMA 500 implementation embedded.

Be aware a new ISO will be online shortly.
The company says this solves the problem"
http://getsatisfaction.com/jolicloud/topics/poulsbo_gma_500_driver_does_not_work_on_msi_wind_u 115

I have mailed them to get a link to the new ISO.

/ Anfanglir

[Anfanglir]

Tried the new unofficial beta version og Jolicloud briefly to check out the improved poulsbo support. Graphics are configured correctly by default on the u820, but suspend only work once (and after resume Alt+F7 is needed to wake up display), subseqent attempts to suspend only activates screensaver. Hibernate is absent in this version, apparently they are currently doing a complete overhaul of suspend/hibernate functions so maybe in next release...

[SlonUA]

could u use
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

[samusishere]

hi, i would like to know how to get suspend working in 9.10

[jbernardo]

hi, i would like to know how to get suspend working in 9.10

Here, with the poulsbo drivers (not with the IEGD ones) it mostly works. Sometimes kde locks when returning from suspend, but alt-sysrq-k lets me kill it.

[jbernardo]

Well, now it is official, no psb support from Canonical, for karmic and lucid at least.
Nothing new, just the bug that was open asking for psb support (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330906) was closed with a WONTFIX.
After shutting down lpia and its 10% power savings and speed gains, now psb is "officially" dropped, so one might be tempted to assume netbooks are less interesting to canonical than itanic (sorry, itanium) workstations.

[sol1tude]

hi, i would like to know how to get suspend working in 9.10

please, try to add to kernel line option: acpi_skip_timer_override

[samusishere]

ok, but um, i have no idea how to do that...

[samusishere]

Well, now it is official, no psb support from Canonical, for karmic and lucid at least.
Nothing new, just the bug that was open asking for psb support (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330906) was closed with a WONTFIX.
After shutting down lpia and its 10% power savings and speed gains, now psb is "officially" dropped, so one might be tempted to assume netbooks are less interesting to canonical than itanic (sorry, itanium) workstations.

well what about the gallium 3d driver thats supposed to appear in 10.04?

[Anfanglir]

please, try to add to kernel line option: acpi_skip_timer_override

cool this actually works, at least with hibernate. Suspend only work once on my machine (Fujitsu u820), on resume I have to use Alt+F7 to wake the screen, subsequent suspend do not work. Still, as repeated hibernate/resume works OK I'm content. Thanks for the tip!

samusishere, you need to add the sentence mentioned by sol1tude to grub. This is what I did:

sudo gedit /etc/default/grub
change:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
to
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_skip_timer_override"
Save and close gedit, then update grub:
sudo update-grub
Reebot.

/ Anfanglir

[samusishere]

thank you very muchh thats the perfect reason for me to finnaly upgrade 2 9.10 andd one more question then im done! has enyone herd anything about the gma 500 drivers in 10.04/ IT WOULD BE SO STUPID IF WE COULD NOT USE THE LONG TERM RELESE. i mean the gallium 3d driver is still in development right? be[LEFT]cause they said there would be one for the gma 500. is this still true?

[samusishere]

thank you very muchh thats the perfect reason for me to finnaly upgrade 2 9.10 andd one more question then im done! has enyone herd anything about the gma 500 drivers in 10.04/ IT WOULD BE SO STUPID IF WE COULD NOT USE THE LONG TERM RELESE. i mean the gallium 3d driver is still in development right? be[LEFT]cause they said there would be one for the gma 500. is this still true?

sorry for the bad english, i was not paying attentio to what i was typeing

[jbernardo]

As for support in 10.04, I am convinced nothing is coming from Canonical, after the bug I mentioned above is closed. So our hopes are that either Intel comes out with the drivers, which they had promised for the beginning of 2010, or someone is able to hack the drivers to work with xorg 1.7.x, or even someone ports xorg 1.6.x to 10.04.

As Intel doesn't seem to be able to at least ship binary drivers like NVidia does, and nobody (at least that I know) is working on reverse engineering the poulsbo drivers, I'd say we're out of luck.

[cgriffith]

Hi gang,

Quick note. I am new to Ubuntu as I have been Slackware then Archlinux user for many years. I have an AO751h and decided to try the UNR to see if US15W/GMA500 support would be any better, or if I could compile and use new IEGD 10.3 drivers.

First off, I just want to give a huge thanks to lucazade. Your psb install script as well as the psb driver packages are top notch.

I was able to use new IEGD drivers but they have many instability issues and no suspend/hibernate. So I decided to use lucazade's packages.

Here is how I got to this point.

1) install Ubuntu Netbook Remix (9.10 Karmic)
2) performed a software update to get entire system up to date.
3) installed psb drivers following http://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo/
4) after rebooting and rebuilding module per #3
I updated the hal suspend quirks per #3

then I had a completely functional and stable system that allows me to watch movies without excessive frame drop. You have no idea how long I have been trying to get that going.

Sorry this is long but I have a point. The only problem I still had to work on was suspend/hibernate/resume. Even with quirks added, when I would resume, the desktop effects (which I assume is due to OpenGL driver issue mentioned in link above) would make system unusable. Although the link mentioned says it is a driver bug, I was not satisfied. So I spent many hours trying different things. Eventually, I found out that I could suspend/hibernate/resume with no problem if I switched to virtual terminal first.

After more investigation I found that /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/98smart-kernel-video was thinking our graphics driver can handle not switching to virtual terminal first (due to KMS) and added quirk to stop suspend from switching to virtual terminal. So, if you run

> touch /etc/pm/sleep.d/98smart-kernel-videosuspend/hibernate/resume will work. Because the pm-suspend script will switch to virtual terminal before suspending system.

I hope this helps others out. If I see a large enough turnout on this issue, maybe I(we) can update wiki.

thank you all, I am finally satisfied with psb driver!!!!!

[samusishere]

As for support in 10.04, I am convinced nothing is coming from Canonical, after the bug I mentioned above is closed. So our hopes are that either Intel comes out with the drivers, which they had promised for the beginning of 2010, or someone is able to hack the drivers to work with xorg 1.7.x, or even someone ports xorg 1.6.x to 10.04.

As Intel doesn't seem to be able to at least ship binary drivers like NVidia does, and nobody (at least that I know) is working on reverse engineering the poulsbo drivers, I'd say we're out of luck.

wait, where did you find out that intel promised drivers for the first half of 2010? i have not her this. the only thing ii have herd of was the gallium driver.

[PilotPaul]

Tried the 98Smart-Kernel-Video mod described above...works for me! Now have full compiz plus suspend working fine on 751h + 9.10. Now if only we can get it to work with Lucid....! ;-)

Cheers

[jbernardo]

wait, where did you find out that intel promised drivers for the first half of 2010? i have not her this. the only thing ii have herd of was the gallium driver.

From what I read on phoronix I was convinced the gallium driver would be released on the first quarter of 2010. But it seems I was wrong.

[auri]

im using lucazade script (thx luca) and apparently my mouse and glxgears movement is broken. why is that happen? before im using script from altervista (by luca as well) and it worked properly . can somebody help me?

using Xorg-version 1.6.4
kernel 2.6.31.20 <<< luca script on 2.6.31.19, 17 same on me.
AO751h , 2gb.

[lucazade]

Hi gang,

Quick note. I am new to Ubuntu as I have been Slackware then Archlinux user for many years. I have an AO751h and decided to try the UNR to see if US15W/GMA500 support would be any better, or if I could compile and use new IEGD 10.3 drivers.

First off, I just want to give a huge thanks to lucazade. Your psb install script as well as the psb driver packages are top notch.

I was able to use new IEGD drivers but they have many instability issues and no suspend/hibernate. So I decided to use lucazade's packages.

Here is how I got to this point.

1) install Ubuntu Netbook Remix (9.10 Karmic)
2) performed a software update to get entire system up to date.
3) installed psb drivers following http://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo/
4) after rebooting and rebuilding module per #3
I updated the hal suspend quirks per #3

then I had a completely functional and stable system that allows me to watch movies without excessive frame drop. You have no idea how long I have been trying to get that going.

Sorry this is long but I have a point. The only problem I still had to work on was suspend/hibernate/resume. Even with quirks added, when I would resume, the desktop effects (which I assume is due to OpenGL driver issue mentioned in link above) would make system unusable. Although the link mentioned says it is a driver bug, I was not satisfied. So I spent many hours trying different things. Eventually, I found out that I could suspend/hibernate/resume with no problem if I switched to virtual terminal first.

After more investigation I found that /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/98smart-kernel-video was thinking our graphics driver can handle not switching to virtual terminal first (due to KMS) and added quirk to stop suspend from switching to virtual terminal. So, if you run

> touch /etc/pm/sleep.d/98smart-kernel-videosuspend/hibernate/resume will work. Because the pm-suspend script will switch to virtual terminal before suspending system.

I hope this helps others out. If I see a large enough turnout on this issue, maybe I(we) can update wiki.

thank you all, I am finally satisfied with psb driver!!!!!

Great stuff!
congrats :)

[lucazade]

im using lucazade script (thx luca) and apparently my mouse and glxgears movement is broken. why is that happen? before im using script from altervista (by luca as well) and it worked properly . can somebody help me?

using Xorg-version 1.6.4
kernel 2.6.31.20 <<< luca script on 2.6.31.19, 17 same on me.
AO751h , 2gb.

Don't know what is wrong with your configuration.. altervista and dropbox scripts are just the same.
I'd try to remove all the psb stuff and install again.

[lucazade]

Tried the 98Smart-Kernel-Video mod described above...works for me! Now have full compiz plus suspend working fine on 751h + 9.10. Now if only we can get it to work with Lucid....! ;-)

Cheers

I tried to backport xorg 7.4 on lucid but without success.. any suggestions?

[cgriffith]

@lucazade

So did you try the suspend/resume tip I posted? Did it work for you? I need to get a poll to see if this tip is accurate so I can get wiki page updated.

I am no expert, but I have been struggling with non-support on this netbook for a year now.

I have been waiting for the "New" drivers for 6 months. At this point I think we only have three options...

1) hope that intel fixes the IEGD drivers so that they are at least stable and can suspend/hibernate/resume. I think this will happen because intel says the IEGD drivers are to be supported for a while, but I see these fixes taking a long time to be implemented.

2) Stick with outdated software.

3) Try to port the psb xserver driver to xserver 1.7.x. I started on this path one day and realized I just don't have the chops to learn what is needed in the time I have.

There is of course that 500 Lb. gorilla in the room which is most distros are moving to xserver 1.7 and so either intel helps out, or everyone just tries to push this under the rug. If that happens, I expect that my netbook will be obsolete in a year or two and then nobody will care cause the next thing will be out. I give intel a month to fix this or i'll vow never again to purchase anything with "intel inside"!

[mikewhatever]

Well, now it is official, no psb support from Canonical, for karmic and lucid at least.
Nothing new, just the bug that was open asking for psb support (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330906) was closed with a WONTFIX.
After shutting down lpia and its 10% power savings and speed gains, now psb is "officially" dropped, so one might be tempted to assume netbooks are less interesting to canonical than itanic (sorry, itanium) workstations.

There was nothing official about that bug report being open or closed. I suspect you are presenting your own uneducated opinions as facts, or else, not sure what's the source of your information. Be as it may, Canonical has nothing to do with gma500, nor does lpia. Instead of complaining here, scribe a letter to Intel and thank them for superb support.

[jbernardo]

There was nothing official about that bug report being open or closed. I suspect you are presenting your own uneducated opinions as facts, or else, not sure what's the source of your information. Be as it may, Canonical has nothing to do with gma500, nor does lpia. Instead of complaining here, scribe a letter to Intel and thank them for superb support.

Thanks for your educated and well thought of message, that adds absolutely nothing to the discussion.

[mikewhatever]

Thanks for your educated and well thought of message, that adds absolutely nothing to the discussion.

What discussion? 'How bad Canonical is for not supporting poulsbo'? Well, you are welcome.;)
For my own part, unless Intel decides to support its hardware (which is unlikely), I'll sell my netbook and get an ARM based machine by the time Karmic reaches its EOL.

[pjman]

Sorry this is long but I have a point. The only problem I still had to work on was suspend/hibernate/resume. Even with quirks added, when I would resume, the desktop effects (which I assume is due to OpenGL driver issue mentioned in link above) would make system unusable. Although the link mentioned says it is a driver bug, I was not satisfied. So I spent many hours trying different things. Eventually, I found out that I could suspend/hibernate/resume with no problem if I switched to virtual terminal first.

After more investigation I found that /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/98smart-kernel-video was thinking our graphics driver can handle not switching to virtual terminal first (due to KMS) and added quirk to stop suspend from switching to virtual terminal. So, if you run

> touch /etc/pm/sleep.d/98smart-kernel-videosuspend/hibernate/resume will work. Because the pm-suspend script will switch to virtual terminal before suspending system.

I hope this helps others out. If I see a large enough turnout on this issue, maybe I(we) can update wiki.

thank you all, I am finally satisfied with psb driver!!!!!

Thank you!! Desktop effects + suspend/hibernate = :D

[Anfanglir]

After more investigation I found that /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/98smart-kernel-video was thinking our graphics driver can handle not switching to virtual terminal first (due to KMS) and added quirk to stop suspend from switching to virtual terminal. So, if you run

> touch /etc/pm/sleep.d/98smart-kernel-videosuspend/hibernate/resume will work. Because the pm-suspend script will switch to virtual terminal before suspending system.

I hope this helps others out. If I see a large enough turnout on this issue, maybe I(we) can update wiki.

thank you all, I am finally satisfied with psb driver!!!!!

Hi
what are the "hal suspend quirks" you mention, I don't see any such on the poulsbo wiki page.

running the command
> touch /etc/pm/sleep.d/98smart-kernel-video
in terminal doesn't improve suspend functionality on my Fujitsu u820, as before suspend work once, second attempt only puts the screen to sleep

EDIT: After switching to virtual terminal manually (Ctrl+Alt+F8) and then back (Ctrl+Alt+F7) suspend do work! For the record: on the u820 the keystrokes are actually Ctrl+Alt-Fn+F2, since F2 doubles as F8, same goes for F1/F7). END EDIT

/ Anfanglir

[cgriffith]

@anfanglir

Sorry for my orginal posting error. The url for hal suspend kirk fix is at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne/AO751h

Please remember that this info may only be relevant to the Acer Aspire One AO751h. Not sure your product has the same platform.

After having some time to play with the completed install, I can now say that high quality HD content (like that on youtube or hulu) does not play smoothly. But that may be due to flash player.

[Anfanglir]

Ahh OK.

:) Anfanglir

[michael37]

What discussion? 'How bad Canonical is for not supporting poulsbo'? Well, you are welcome.;)
For my own part, unless Intel decides to support its hardware (which is unlikely), I'll sell my netbook and get an ARM based machine by the time Karmic reaches its EOL.

I thought Intel supports its hardware reasonably well. IEGD 10.3 (http://edc.intel.com/Software/Downloads/IEGD/). IEGD was discussed in this thread multiple times

[jbernardo]

I thought Intel supports its hardware reasonably well. IEGD 10.3 (http://edc.intel.com/Software/Downloads/IEGD/). IEGD was discussed in this thread multiple times

IEGD is hard to set up and doesn't support suspend or hibernate, besides still having lots of bugs. Intel, who has promised open source support for their chipsets, should be able to at least "do a nvidia" and provide decent binary blobs for recent xorgs servers. On that I agree with mikewhatever.
But that doesn't mean that canonical/ubuntu does care for poulsbo or atom netbook users.

Let's drop this argument, and see what we need to have our netbooks running recent linux distributions. Because PSB and IEGD drivers only run on xserver older than 1.7.x, we have the following alternatives:


Backporting xserver 1.6.4 to Lucid - short term, and Lucazade already tried it without success.
Hacking the IEGD or PSB drivers to run on 1.7.x - also short term, and probably very difficult.
Starting a reverse engineering like the noveau drivers - which will take ages, but might be the best solution.
Pressure Intel to release open source working drivers for the PSB, like the Gallium based ones promised for early 2010.

I know I'm staying away from Intel if I can. My next netbook will be a ION or, more likely, a AMD + ATI. Even if ATI drivers usually aren't that good, they work, and are open source.

[cgriffith]

well said jbernado!

I have tried the IEGD 10.3 drivers and found that the instability and inability to suspend/hibernate to make them unusable in there current form. Furthermore as you have pointed out, those drivers still lock us in to outdated distros due to X server restriction. These drivers are supposed to have long-term support which means to me that some day they may have these bugs fixed. However, they are targeted for embedded systems which our netbooks are not. That is why these issue are not a high priority to fix.

There is an article on http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzY2Mg which everyone mentions, but no one seems to validate. Obviously the IEGD drivers are not the drivers mentioned here.

I personally started looking at migrating psb drivers to xserver 1.7.5, but found I just don't have the time or coding chops (in C) to get there. The IEGD drivers don't even have an open source xserver driver so we are totally at the mercy of intel to distribute a new binary blob.

Thus I have just kinda concluded that I am stuck with what I got. I will monitor the situation to see if a new driver gets out there. But if not, it is my fault for not doing my homework. Then the only recourse I have it to vow to never purchase anything from Acer or with Intel inside (even beyond netbooks as you mention). Because although I am at fault for purchasing this product, I have the last say on where I spend my money next time!

[Amyako]

Well, now i'm almost able to run psb driver on x-server 1.7.5.

At this moment here a some problems:

A problem with drm on .33 kernel, similar to this bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-psb/+bug/386130). I will try run this driver on another kernel.

OpenGL part of driver hangs x-server, so it may be unusable without reverse-engineering.

[lucazade]

Well, now i'm almost able to run psb driver on x-server 1.7.5.

At this moment here a some problems:

A problem with drm on .33 kernel, similar to this bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-psb/+bug/386130). I will try run this driver on another kernel.

OpenGL part of driver hangs x-server, so it may be unusable without reverse-engineering.

Sounds interesting... could you explain how did you get it working with lucid?

[Mattia]

Do you know this power management applet?
http://jupiter.sourceforge.net/
Does it works on asus 1101?

[Mistress]

video is still sluggish. Please note that netbooks are not intended, nor suitable to do any heavy computing, even if you have good drivers. The gma500/intel atom 520 combination shines in energy use (>8 hrs) but in little other area's...
I use xubuntu because it is (to my knowledge) the least sluggish operating system on these machines, and it runs very well, to surf, wordprocess and mail.
#!(crunchbang) works really well on the acer aspire one a0751h. that is after a few tweaks xD... im still working out some kinks.. but i think that is more my fault than anything.

[samusishere]

#!(crunchbang) works really well on the acer aspire one a0751h. that is after a few tweaks xD... im still working out some kinks.. but i think that is more my fault than anything.

hi, can you tell me the tweks that you did to get it running so well?

[samusishere]

hi, i have another question, how would i make perfromance for java better then what it is? i would really like to play java games.

[SlonUA]

hi, i have another question, how would i make perfromance for java better then what it is? i would really like to play java games.

sorry, but below question is off-top =)

do u have problems with java execution !?

in any case java (java applets) will be work perfect under any video drivers =)

[samusishere]

i know im sorry it is very of topic, but o the java games in firefox run very porely, unplayable to be truthful, and since this probey has something to do with graphics i posted here. please help me as i am a pogo games fan and cant do enything with the way it is running right now

[SlonUA]

i know im sorry it is very of topic, but o the java games in firefox run very porely, unplayable to be truthful, and since this probey has something to do with graphics i posted here. please help me as i am a pogo games fan and cant do enything with the way it is running right now

ohh, man, no problem =) .. could U provide info about your system and issues you have ..

1) java version installed
2) browser usage
3) video drivers installed
4) system info collection

so, could you create bug post here (please provide all info mentioned below)

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

or ask question about how to resolve your issue with provide all info below

https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion

[samusishere]

um i have a acer aspire one 751h with the gma 500 graphics and the z520 1.33 ghz processor. i am running the lattest java, (from the repo, and a useing ubuntu 9.04, i am also useing the polsubo drivers that are in the distro, (but 3d excelration)

[cgriffith]

Just in case anyone is interested. Intel has released IEGD 10.3.1 yesterday. I downloaded and extracted the linux drivers. I can see they added support for "Pineview", and the xserver binary blobs have been modified. There is no change in supported kernel/xserver versions. Maybe they fixed the suspend issue. <fingers-crossed>

[jbernardo]

Just in case anyone is interested. Intel has released IEGD 10.3.1 yesterday. I downloaded and extracted the linux drivers. I can see they added support for "Pineview", and the xserver binary blobs have been modified. There is no change in supported kernel/xserver versions. Maybe they fixed the suspend issue. <fingers-crossed>

We're all waiting for your report... :)

[samusishere]

yeah because if they fixed the issue im stoked. i wonder if they added 3d acceleration 2.

[samusishere]

hi, i know this is a random question, but does enyone know how to get a little bit better 2d perfromance? it would be really helpful if you knew enything

[michael37]

hi, i know this is a random question, but does enyone know how to get a little bit better 2d perfromance? it would be really helpful if you knew enything

Can you be more specific? 2D performance on my Dell Mini 12/Atom Z520/GMA 500 is quite good -- and that's nearly the slowest configuration possible with GMA500.

[sol1tude]

hi, i know this is a random question, but does enyone know how to get a little bit better 2d perfromance? it would be really helpful if you knew enything
if you read this tread carefully you can really get the best performance from gma 500 [unbelievable!] with CURRENT drivers. if you really cant find nothing you can PM me. you should use ubuntu 9.10 - its pretty faster because of new gnome.

I have dell mini 12 / gma 500 / atom z520 / 1gb ram and here some my results with 2d GUI performance (tested with gtkperf):
GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Sun Mar 21 13:05:16 2010

GtkEntry - time: 0,17
GtkComboBox - time: 3,86
GtkComboBoxEntry - time: 2,70
GtkSpinButton - time: 0,72
GtkProgressBar - time: 0,69
GtkToggleButton - time: 0,91
GtkCheckButton - time: 0,60
GtkRadioButton - time: 0,77
GtkTextView - Add text - time: 1,71
GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 1,34
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time: 3,56
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 5,39
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 5,10
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time: 0,48
---
Total time: 28,01

and i can say that it is faster than at my desktop with the same ubuntu but powered by athlon 64 3000+ and ati hd3850 - desktop showed total time about 35 secs.

so main problem with gma 500 is binary 3d driver.

[samusishere]

um im talking about faster scrolling in google chrome etc....... it scrolls really well with compiz disabled but when it is enabled it scrolls slowly and is choppy, its not bad, but its not good either

[samusishere]

um im talking about faster scrolling in google chrome etc....... it scrolls really well with compiz disabled but when it is enabled it scrolls slowly and is choppy, its not bad, but its not good either

i ran that program you ran to tes your 2d performance, i scored 129.3 secs. thats reall bad when you scored 20 s0mething

[michael37]

i ran that program you ran to tes your 2d performance, i scored 129.3 secs. thats reall bad when you scored 20 s0mething

This is reasonbly common result for gtkperf *when compiz is enabled and 3D is working poorly*.
You really have two options.

1. Disable compiz/3D effects. Your scrolling performance will likely increase 5 fold or so.

2. Troubleshoot 3D using this guide: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo. Test performance using "glxgears". I am getting roughly 1300 frames / 5 seconds. (I am also running compiz and scrolling is just fine).

[samusishere]

This is reasonbly common result for gtkperf *when compiz is enabled and 3D is working poorly*.
You really have two options.

1. Disable compiz/3D effects. Your scrolling performance will likely increase 5 fold or so.

2. Troubleshoot 3D using this guide: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo. Test performance using "glxgears". I am getting roughly 1300 frames / 5 seconds. (I am also running compiz and scrolling is just fine).

ok, well compiz in ubuntu 9.04 has a higher frame rate then that in glx gears. thats what i curnetly run. and i stay with it for the reason that i can hibernate and suspend my acer aspire one 751h when in 9.10 i cannot

[cgriffith]

@samusishere

didn't you read my post here?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8946979#post8946979

[samusishere]

@samusishere

didn't you read my post here?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8946979#post8946979

i did, i will try that. what about brightness keys in ubuntu 9.10 on the acer aspire one 751h

[jbernardo]

Just in case anyone is interested. Intel has released IEGD 10.3.1 yesterday. I downloaded and extracted the linux drivers. I can see they added support for "Pineview", and the xserver binary blobs have been modified. There is no change in supported kernel/xserver versions. Maybe they fixed the suspend issue. <fingers-crossed>

Hi, any news? Have they fixed suspend/hibernate?

[samusishere]

Hi has enyone heard eny news on the upcomeing LTS lucid lynx runing with the gma 500??? it would be a shame that e cant use a long term relese because cannonical and intel cant work something out like they did with 8.04

Thanks in advance.!

[NCLI]

Hi has enyone heard eny news on the upcomeing LTS lucid lynx runing with the gma 500??? it would be a shame that e cant use a long term relese because cannonical and intel cant work something out like they did with 8.04

Thanks in advance.!

Status quo: We're screwed.

However, I just emailed the guy from the FSF who showed off better GMA 500 drivers last fall. I'm hoping for an enlightening reply.

[jbernardo]

Status quo: We're screwed.

However, I just emailed the guy from the FSF who showed off better GMA 500 drivers last fall. I'm hoping for an enlightening reply.

I've still to decide if this is just SNAFU, or the GMA500 drivers are FUBAR.

[excogitation]

Status quo: We're screwed.

However, I just emailed the guy from the FSF who showed off better GMA 500 drivers last fall. I'm hoping for an enlightening reply.

Keep us posted.

It's a shame that not even Moblin (soon to be MeeGo) supports the GMA 500 chipset.

[penguin10916]

Well, even though I am using Jolicloud, I found something that has boost performance and responsiveness of general applications and the netbook launcher. I have found that if you install this package: http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/gstreamer0.10-gl and then select it in gstreamer-properties that everything improves quite well... Also, I was just wondering, if someone were to link the VAAPI to this plugin, then could native, Hardware decoding of H.264 become system wide making HTML5 based Youtube in HD a possibility w/Chrome? XD

[junkshow]

Hi gang,
Here is how I got to this point.

1) install Ubuntu Netbook Remix (9.10 Karmic)
2) performed a software update to get entire system up to date.
3) installed psb drivers following http://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo/
4) after rebooting and rebuilding module per #3
I updated the hal suspend quirks per #3

then I had a completely functional and stable system that allows me to watch movies without excessive frame drop. You have no idea how long I have been trying to get that going.
...
After more investigation I found that /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/98smart-kernel-video was thinking our graphics driver can handle not switching to virtual terminal first (due to KMS) and added quirk to stop suspend from switching to virtual terminal. So, if you run

> touch /etc/pm/sleep.d/98smart-kernel-videosuspend/hibernate/resume will work. Because the pm-suspend script will switch to virtual terminal before suspending system.

I hope this helps others out. If I see a large enough turnout on this issue, maybe I(we) can update wiki.

Thanks for posting. Using these steps, I got my AO751h to suspend/resume once, but then it can no longer suspend. Also, after resume, Hibernate is no longer available in the Power Management preference dialog. FWIW, I also have 2.6.31-20, which may be the problem. I think at this point I am done wasting my time with the GMA500.

[samusishere]

ok but i remember that there where gallium 3d drivers, that here supossed to be madee.! why are all these compneys makeing empty promises to us??? the said they would be relesed early 2010 sowhat gives???

[pjman]

Sorry, maybe a little off topic.

Is anyone able to run Stellarium with the GMA 500? It wont start on my Dell Mini 10.

[kgingeri]

Yeah, speaking of off topic ;)

Has anyone had any luck running Google's Sketchup? I'm trying to get it to display properly in Wine - it does run fine, but it displays a black work area instead of the drawing. I can tell it is running and functioning just fine - ie cursor changes etc. Tool bars and menus are fine too.

I think it may have something to do with OpenGL?

[Reeonimus]

After following the instructions to set up the psb driver numerous times, and tinkering here and there, I couldnt even get youtube videos to play without skipping on my Acer Aspire 751h.

What I did in the end that finally fixed it? Flashed my BIOS to the newest firmware. The firmware on mine was still the original from when it was shipped.

So any of you 751h users that are still having problems after setting up the poulsbo driver, flash your BIOS! Of course as per usual, be careful in doing so. And if Ubuntu is your only OS on the machine get unetbootin (apt-get install unetbootin) and choose "FreeDOS" from the list to install it on a USB stick. Copy the DOS install for the BIOS found from Acer's website onto the mem stick AFTER installing FreeDOS on it. Run FreeDOS without HIMEM or emm386 (Live CD only) execute the DOS BIOS upgrade and enjoy.

This netbook runs infinitely better now!

[SlonUA]

Sorry, maybe a little off topic.

Is anyone able to run Stellarium with the GMA 500? It wont start on my Dell Mini 10.

no problems. take a look

VideoBin (http://videobin.org/+11v/18w.html) YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urFUm0yCNiw)

[samusishere]

After following the instructions to set up the psb driver numerous times, and tinkering here and there, I couldnt even get youtube videos to play without skipping on my Acer Aspire 751h.

What I did in the end that finally fixed it? Flashed my BIOS to the newest firmware. The firmware on mine was still the original from when it was shipped.

So any of you 751h users that are still having problems after setting up the poulsbo driver, flash your BIOS! Of course as per usual, be careful in doing so. And if Ubuntu is your only OS on the machine get unetbootin (apt-get install unetbootin) and choose "FreeDOS" from the list to install it on a USB stick. Copy the DOS install for the BIOS found from Acer's website onto the mem stick AFTER installing FreeDOS on it. Run FreeDOS without HIMEM or emm386 (Live CD only) execute the DOS BIOS upgrade and enjoy.

This netbook runs infinitely better now!

hi.! can i ask when you bought yours??? andd im sorry but can you walk me through what you mean by after installig free dos on it??? and what do you mean run it without HIMEM OR EMM386.???

[pjman]

no problems. take a look

VideoBin (http://videobin.org/+11v/18w.html) YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urFUm0yCNiw)

Awesome - Thanks! Changing the config file to match my resolution ( 1366x768 ) worked.

One more question - are you able to open the location window? I just get a white box and when I click portions of it it changes my location but I can't read anything.

Thanks again!

[SlonUA]

Awesome - Thanks! Changing the config file to match my resolution ( 1366x768 ) worked.

One more question - are you able to open the location window? I just get a white box and when I click portions of it it changes my location but I can't read anything.

Thanks again!

yeah, i have the same =).
so, don't had chance to try use driconf. using this tool u can disable some settings per application or default.

also, we can try to use xorg-edgers ppa =).

but, i just tweak some settings on my desktop and copy to my Dell Mini =) or directly by editor :popcorn:

[sol1tude]

it sounds strange but on jolicloud gma 500 driver works with xserver-xorg 1.7 and 2.6.32 kernel. very smooth performance.

[sol1tude]

Thank you all guys, finally Im very tired with this gma 500. I've moved to ION and stop all my own gma 500 investigations. My advice is not to wait for god's bless and move to another more progressive chipset.

[Mattia]

here there is the iegd 10.3.1 driver repository for karmic:
http://tinyurl.com/ycp2tsm

How can i configure xorg to try this driver?

[Cifra]

Status quo: We're screwed.

However, I just emailed the guy from the FSF who showed off better GMA 500 drivers last fall. I'm hoping for an enlightening reply.

Yes, please keep us posted. I'm sick of Windows 7, I swear I'm going to switch to Mac OS if they don't fix this soon.

[ingcorra]

to lucazade, jbernardo etc.
maybe this guy is in the right way? -> http://silicone.homelinux.org/2010/04/11/building-xserver-1-6-for-xorg-7-5/

[Mattia]

to lucazade, jbernardo etc.
maybe this guy is in the right way? -> http://silicone.homelinux.org/2010/04/11/building-xserver-1-6-for-xorg-7-5/

Have you tried?

Here you can find the iegd driver compiled:
http://tinyurl.com/ycp2tsm

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alaperrot/test

[SlonUA]

hi, pals. in case u r still interesting in gma500 drivers .. u can take a look here: ppa:slonua/fullhouse (https://edge.launchpad.net/~slonua/+archive/fullhouse)
so, u can use only this PPA for installation. please, report any issues.

thanks to lucazade and Nicolas DERIVE =).

[nekr0z]

SlonUA, the most obvious issue is that the PPA you mentioned doesn't work for Lucid.

[SlonUA]

SlonUA, the most obvious issue is that the PPA you mentioned doesn't work for Lucid.

yeah, u r right. so, we have 15 days to provide something useful =).

[ingcorra]

for who don't use compiz and hasn't tried yet: enable metacity compositing. 2d performances are way better and you'll have shadows under windows/menus and an icon animation when launching programs from panel.

alt+f2 -> gconf-editor
under apps/metacity/general enable compositing_manager

or run this command

gconftool-2 -s '/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager' --type bool true

(false to disable)

it would be better to set up a keyboard shortcut to enable/disable as it slows down full screen video playback

ps. probably this will not work with the netbook remix version

[Leed]

Lucid UNR Remix still seems to run smooth enough on my gma500 netbook without having a driver working.

In fact, compared with the occasional freezes on the previous versions with the psb driver, my netbook is now actually useful thanks to lucid.

Does anyone know a way to get the resolution right and the xrand working without using the psb driver?

[destinyking]

great news

I tried this procedure on UNR 9.10 and it failed on install xserver-xorg-video-psb which was failing due to libdrm-poulsbo1

[Cifra]

Bump.

Any new ideas?

[penguin10916]

hmm, interesting... many are saying that we may see GMA 500 drivers from Intel with the advent of the Moorestown chipset... and considering that the first moorestown smart phones are set for the second half of 2010, we may not have to wait too long for these drivers... I would say that at most we would have to wait until September or October... the problem though, is that there are rumors that the first stable versions of Meebo may use Xorg 1.8....which may cause problems for some distros... would it cause problems for us? or is Ubuntu 10.04 planning on using it at some point or already using it?

[lucazade]

Xorg PSB patched by Blino and packaged by me (DEB) (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/Gma500/deb/xserver-xorg-video-psb_0.31.0-0ubuntu1%7E1004_i386.deb)

Haven't tried it yet.. let me know if ok!

wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/Gma500/scripts/poulsbo_lucid.sh && sh ./poulsbo_lucid.sh

[jbernardo]

Did you guys make a miracle for Lucid, or is this still for Karmic?

If it is for Lucid, I owe you guys a beer... :D

[lucazade]

for lucid... i love beer! :D

[PilotPaul]

Outstanding! Looking forward to running Lucid now on my Acer Aspire One 751h. This is what I love about the open source community - someone has a problem you can bet your life that there's someone else out there who can fix it! Good work guys!

Paul

[SlonUA]

for lucid... i love beer! :D

could u provide patch !?

[lucazade]

could u provide patch !?

http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/x11-driver-video-psb/current/

look also at:
blino.org/

[nekr0z]

Sorry, lucazade, but your xserver-xorg-video-psb provides xserver-xorg-video-5, which conflicts with Lucid's xserver-xorg-core. Thus, the package can not be installed on a Lucid system without breaking it.

But then again, jbernardo has already promised you a beer, so maybe the fact that the package doesn't work doesn't really matter :D

[jbernardo]

I promised a beer if it works... And he is close enough to collect it one day.

I assume you need to install the deb in his message, not the one in the repository, right?

[lucazade]

I promised a beer if it works... And he is close enough to collect it one day.

I assume you need to install the deb in his message, not the one in the repository, right?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/Gma500/deb/xserver-xorg-video-psb_0.31.0-0ubuntu2%7E1004_i386.deb

is it ok?

[jbernardo]

I'll install Lucid tonight and I'll test it... :)

[nekr0z]

Yeah, the new one installs. Have yet to check if it works ;)

[nekr0z]

Well, here's what I've got now: the packages install, the system boots, but X refuses to start claiming non-working configuration (that's with the xorg.conf produced by lucazade's script). The system can still be started in something called "low resolution mode", which essentially is the same thing as without psb driver at all.

More to say, it looks like psb kernel module is not loaded by default (at least it is not seen in lsmod output). It can be modprobed, but modprobing it has no effect other than having psb now listed in lsmod.

Bottomline: either it is broken, or it requires some manual tweaking that I have no idea how to do. Could well be both ;-)

Tested on Asus EeePC 1101HA.

[lucazade]

Well, here's what I've got now: the packages install, the system boots, but X refuses to start claiming non-working configuration (that's with the xorg.conf produced by lucazade's script). The system can still be started in something called "low resolution mode", which essentially is the same thing as without psb driver at all.

More to say, it looks like psb kernel module is not loaded by default (at least it is not seen in lsmod output). It can be modprobed, but modprobing it has no effect other than having psb now listed in lsmod.

Bottomline: either it is broken, or it requires some manual tweaking that I have no idea how to do. Could well be both ;-)

Tested on Asus EeePC 1101HA.

Thanks for the info.. unfortunately i don't have here a gma500 device to test on it.

have you tried "sudo dpkg-reconfigure psb-kernel-source" ?
it should recompile psb the kernel module.

[nekr0z]

have you tried "sudo dpkg-reconfigure psb-kernel-source" ?
it should recompile psb the kernel module.
I have. It didn't do any good.

Looks like here's what keeps X from starting normally:
/usr/bin/X: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/Xpsb.so: undefined symbol: xf86AddModuleInfo

unfortunately i don't have here a gma500 device to test on it.
Which is perfectly OK as long as you tell us what to test and where to look for the information you need for debugging. That's what the testers are for, right? Just tell us what that information is and where it can be found, since not all of us are really technical enough to find that out on our own. ;-)

[jbernardo]

Strange, according to blino.org that should be fixed by his patches:
The final touch is the make the Xpsb proprietary extension usable again. The only issue was that the empty xf86AddModuleInfo() function (http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=2107becb0ce2ffda001be65728c53563496d8d50) has been removed upstream. Adding this empty function back in psb_driver.c directly is dirty, but makes it usable again :)

[lucazade]

Strange, according to blino.org that should be fixed by his patches:

I was thinking the same..

[lucazade]

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "off"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

These xorg.conf sections should disable AIGLX support (provided by xpsb.so).
Maybe is a temporary workaround.

[nekr0z]

Maybe is a temporary workaround.
Doesn't help. Brings up more errors, I hope to find some time to post them after I get home from work.

[jbernardo]

Well, my first attempt was even more unsuccessful. A clean Lucid install, ran your script, and after boot it hang after switching from a console to the log output (the one showing starting AppArmor profiles, etc.).
And Xorg.0.log has nothing after the "Module Xpsb: vendor=..." line, so no indication of what is going wrong.

After a few more attempts, including booting in recovery mode, I am at the same stage. Even startx from a command prompt just switches console then hangs, with magic-sysrq as the only option. And nothing in the logs.

[Anfanglir]

Problem here as well. I have made an upgrade to the Lucid RC (upgrade, not a clean install). I have purged all old poulsbo-drivers, and then executed the script.

The script gives an error at the end:
"[: 89: unexpected operator"

for reference the error appears after creating a symbolic to usr/lib/va/driver/psb_drv_video.so, but may be unrelated to this event

I'm stuck i low graphics mode, and a dpkg-reconfigure of the psb kernel source do not resolve the situatuion


/ Anfanglir

[markybob]

Problem here as well. I have made an upgrade to the Lucid RC (upgrade, not a clean install). I have purged all old poulsbo-drivers, and then executed the script.

The script gives an error at the end:
"[: 89: unexpected operator"

for reference the error appears after creating a symbolic to usr/lib/va/driver/psb_drv_video.so, but may be unrelated to this event

I'm stuck i low graphics mode, and a dpkg-reconfigure of the psb kernel source do not resolve the situatuion


/ Anfanglir

run it with bash, not sh, and you won't get that error. "bash poulsbo_lucid.sh" instead of "sh poulsbo_lucid.sh"

[Anfanglir]

OK,
so should the whole command line be:

wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/Gma500/scripts/poulsbo_lucid.sh && bash ./poulsbo_lucid.sh

or

wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/Gma500/scripts/poulsbo_lucid.sh && bash poulsbo_lucid.sh

?

thanx / Anfanglir

[nekr0z]

(WW) xf86CloseConsole: KSETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor
(WW) xf86CloseConsole: VT_GETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor
(WW) xf86CloseConsole: VT_GETSTATE failed: Bad file descriptor
ddxSigGiveUp: Closing log
And that's as near as it gets.

[derlok]

I run the script on my dell mini 10 and no one error is prompted, anyway, when reboot the system start in slow-graphic mode.

[jr3us]

Additional information after I looked closely at the output while the poulsbo script ran:

Short story is it looks like the kernel module never gets built since the source has gone missing in the /usr/src directory...

(Reading database ... 123045 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace psb-kernel-source 4.41.6-0ubuntu1~1004jbs1 (using .../psb-kernel-source_4.41.6-0ubuntu1~1004jbs1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement psb-kernel-source ...
Removing old module source...
Setting up psb-kernel-source (4.41.6-0ubuntu1~1004jbs1) ...
Loading new psb-kernel-source-4.41.6 DKMS files...

Error! Could not find module source directory.
Directory: /usr/src/psb-kernel-source-4.41.6 does not exist.
dpkg: error processing psb-kernel-source (--install):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
psb-kernel-source
(Reading database ... 123045 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace psb-kernel-source 4.41.6-0ubuntu1~1004jbs1 (using .../psb-kernel-source_4.41.6-0ubuntu1~1004jbs1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement psb-kernel-source ...
Removing old module source...
Setting up psb-kernel-source (4.41.6-0ubuntu1~1004jbs1) ...
Loading new psb-kernel-source-4.41.6 DKMS files...

Error! Could not find module source directory.
Directory: /usr/src/psb-kernel-source-4.41.6 does not exist.
dpkg: error processing psb-kernel-source (--install):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
psb-kernel-source
(Reading database ... 123045 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace psb-kernel-source 4.41.6-0ubuntu1~1004jbs1 (using .../psb-kernel-source_4.41.6-0ubuntu1~1004jbs1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement psb-kernel-source ...
Removing old module source...
Setting up psb-kernel-source (4.41.6-0ubuntu1~1004jbs1) ...
Loading new psb-kernel-source-4.41.6 DKMS files...

Error! Could not find module source directory.
Directory: /usr/src/psb-kernel-source-4.41.6 does not exist.
dpkg: error processing psb-kernel-source (--install):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Processing triggers for python-central ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
psb-kernel-source


Regards!

[luciform]

If someone just tell me how to get V-Blank sync on GMA-500 to get rid of the video tearing...

[Leed]

My deepest respekt for the work you guys are doing.

Would love to see a proper driver running on Lucid, it's just I somehow don't believe the old psb driver would do the trick.

My testing so far
Jaunty without PSB: Not usable, much to slow +resolution not optimal
Jaunty with PSB: Not usable, runs at good speed, but random freezes kill all the fun

Lucid without PSB: Runs quite well, +resolution not optimal, but more or less better than all I had before, won't switch back.


It would be great to see poulsbo running in lucid, but I do fear that freeze problem might ruin the fun again.

My biggest hope is still that intel brings up a new driver, there are rumors, but chances are still not that good

[outlaw45]

Got the same problems with the script. The source isn't unpacked in the correct directory (/usr/src). Tried unpacking the source myself and installing the deb, but the source is removed by dpkg...

Maybe something went wrong packaging the deb?

[lucazade]

Got the same problems with the script. The source isn't unpacked in the correct directory (/usr/src). Tried unpacking the source myself and installing the deb, but the source is removed by dpkg...

Maybe something went wrong packaging the deb?

I believe there was some issues with the psb-kernel-header during the building.. but I haven't seen any error.

This is what i did:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/Gma500/tar/xserver-xorg-video-psb/xserver-xorg-video-psb_0.31.0.orig.tar.gz

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/Gma500/tar/xserver-xorg-video-psb/xserver-xorg-video-psb_0.31.0-0ubuntu1%7E904um1.diff.gz

unpacked xserver-xorg-video-psb_0.31.0.orig.tar.gz and cd in

zcat ../xserver-xorg-video-psb_0.31.0-0ubuntu1~904um1.diff.gz | patch -p1

copied all *.patch from blino inside the new dir

patch -p1 < *.patch

(modified some entries in debian/control about version)

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot


i'd try to build it directly on a gma500 device.. but now i can't.
if anyone else would like to try... :)

[jbernardo]

I've also tried building it, but for that I also had to dig up the source for libdrm-poulsbo1. I did mostly the same as you, added all the blino patches, and did a debuild. In the end, the result was the same. X didn't start, and I even managed to start login in a text console, but the automatic retries to launch X ended borking up the system, needing a magic-sysreq to reboot.
I'll have to check building every package now, with blino's patches instead of ours.
Got a source ppa from where I can download them (the sources) with ease? :)

Ah, and for the people using the vesa driver, you can get 1366x768 by adding to /etc/grub.d/40-custom the lines that shaoxuan added to another thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1440310):
insmod 915resolution
915resolution 5c 1366 768
set gfxmode=1366x768
Then edit /etc/default/grub and add a line with "GRUB_GFXMODE=1366x768", then run "update-grub". On next reboot you'll have 1366x768 resolution in X, even if slow, at least it looks better.

[lucazade]

Got a source ppa from where I can download them (the sources) with ease? :)

(Ubuntu mobile ppa)
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mobile/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter=jaunty

or

(Milone ppa.. libdrm-poulsbo good depencencies)
https://launchpad.net/~albertomilone/+archive/poulsbo-graphics

or from my gma500_sources.tar.gz:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/Gma500/gma500_sources.tar.gz

[jbernardo]

Thanks, I'll boot into lucid and try now some patch variations... If it only gave any output on my machine when it hangs!

[nekr0z]

Ah, and for the people using the vesa driver, you can get 1366x768 by adding to /etc/grub.d/40-custom the lines that shaoxuan added to another thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1440310):
insmod 915resolution
915resolution 5c 1366 768
set gfxmode=1366x768
Then edit /etc/default/grub and add a line with "GRUB_GFXMODE=1366x768", then run "update-grub". On next reboot you'll have 1366x768 resolution in X, even if slow, at least it looks better.
…then put your netbook/laptop in suspend mode (either STR or STD, no difference here), wake it up and enjoy watching X restart destroying all your unsaved work.

[jr3us]

…then put your netbook/laptop in suspend mode (either STR or STD, no difference here), wake it up and enjoy watching X restart destroying all your unsaved work.

I left my acer 0751h laptop harddisk installation at 9.04 so that all the peripheral hardware would continue working.

I installed 10.04 onto an 8gb memory stick for testing this knowing that there would be problems with the new drivers.

Once 10.04 is working properly on that memory stick, I will then upgrade the installation on the internal hard drive.

As has been said many times, intel and whoever has the proprietary drivers haven't yet stepped up their game to cover lucid lynx yet! :)

I also want to play with the deb package a bit. I have been a long time developer, but never have built packages.

[descendent87]

Would be great if this works on lucid, will give the script a go later and post any usefull information I can (not a developer so best I can do is help test/debug)

[jbernardo]

Well, I just built the packages with the mandriva patches, and still no go. There is nothing in xorg.0.log, and the psb module doesn't get loaded. I am wondering if it has anything to do with mandriva installing the module with a different name (psb-drm)? I'll try to check the patches to see if they hardcode the module path, or anything like that.

[m0dcm]

I'm not updating to 10.04 until a working Poulsbo driver is on the PPA. I did try Beta 1 after reading that the GMA500/Poulsbo drivers would be support, but there was nothing, other than upgraded NVidia and ATI drivers.
I have tried Mandriva after hearing that the Poulsbo drivers worked out of the box and under Xorg 1.7, but I soon put Ubuntu 9.10 back on my Netbook as I prefer this OS and till now Canonical have been awesome. If the Poulsbo drivers cannot be done, what are we, the owners of Netbooks with Poulsbo chipsets inside to do, after April next year? If the only answer is go back to Microsoft, I'd rather throw everything in the bin, than pay over the odds for an OS that is a Virus Magnet, and that's exactly what I was told to do last night on the #Ubuntu+1 IRC channel, which I thought was disgusting!!

I have faith that something will be fixed, and I will wait patiently......

[jbernardo]

Well, finaly I seem to have made some advance. One of the problems was enabling visibility, as blino wrote on his blog. To do that, I changed debian/rules. I made other changes before to make it load the patches in debian/patches, and it now needs quilt, but the relevant line is the CFLAGS:
#!/usr/bin/make -f

QUILT_STAMPFN = quilt-stamp

include /usr/share/quilt/quilt.make

#Not needed, as libdrm-poulsbo1 redirects the relevant files from /usr/include to /usr/include/psb, and installs directly in /usr/lib
#export DRI_CFLAGS="-I/usr/include/psb -I/usr/include/psb/drm -I/usr/include/X11/dri"
#LDFLAGS:=-L/usr/share/psb/lib -ldrm

# change visibility back to default so that psb can find mmCreateDRM in libmm
CFLAGS+=-fvisibility=default

build: build-stamp
build-stamp: patch
dh build
touch build-stamp

clean: unpatch
dh $@

install: build install-stamp
install-stamp:
dh install
grep PCI_CHIP src/psb_driver.h | sed -e 's/^.*0x/8086/g' > $(CURDIR)/debian/xserver-xorg-video-psb/usr/share/xserver-xorg/pci/psb.ids
touch install-stamp

binary-arch: install
dh $@

binary-indep: install
dh $@

binary: binary-arch binary-indep


Now, it won't hang my system, but fails loading dri. The relevant lines from Xorg.0.log are here (http://pastebin.com/yjDNXS0u). Blino mentions that in recent mesa versions, _glapi_set_warning_func() (http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=e4f168a6f4911a096be97d2e83ef8ad9c5862ec0) was removed upstream, so it might need a new workaround. I wonder if that is it?

[jbernardo]

Now, it won't hang my system, but fails loading dri. The relevant lines from Xorg.0.log are here (http://pastebin.com/yjDNXS0u). Blino mentions that in recent mesa versions, _glapi_set_warning_func() (http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=e4f168a6f4911a096be97d2e83ef8ad9c5862ec0) was removed upstream, so it might need a new workaround. I wonder if that is it?

Nope, I added the stub, and it still failed the same way. I am stuck now, any xorg expert that can help here, what should I check for? It is obvious that dri isn't getting initialized, but why and where?

[nicodds]

Nope, I added the stub, and it still failed the same way. I am stuck now, any xorg expert that can help here, what should I check for? It is obvious that dri isn't getting initialized, but why and where?

I'm not an Xorg expert, but from the logfile you posted I can see that Xorg fails to open the dri device file; in my understanding this could happen if the drm kernel module and related ones are not properly loaded so the device /dev/dri/card0 doesn't exist. Do you have any evidence of this situation in /var/log/messages?

[jbernardo]

No errors in dmesg or /var/log/messages, psb.ko gets loaded and loads drm, i2c_algo_bit, and agpgart.
I am now booting into karmic to see what is on that dmesg about drm, and to check when /dev/dri/card0 gets created. If it is when I load the module, then I have to review the kernel module itself, and find why isn't it creating the nodes.

Ok, just tested, loading the module in karmic doesn't create the nodes, so it is when it is called from xorg. Which means more poking around the patches...

[nicodds]

No errors in dmesg or /var/log/messages, psb.ko gets loaded and loads drm, i2c_algo_bit, and agpgart.
I am now booting into karmic to see what is on that dmesg about drm, and to check when /dev/dri/card0 gets created. If it is when I load the module, then I have to review the kernel module itself, and find why isn't it creating the nodes.

Ok, just tested, loading the module in karmic doesn't create the nodes, so it is when it is called from xorg. Which means more poking around the patches...

In this launchpad bug-report https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-psb/+bug/406651, people seems to experience the same problem, the proposed solution seems to me a kind of magic, but in any case I think we'll try anything to make the driver work :-)

[jbernardo]

I'm trying now, even if I've already reinstalled psb-kernel-source a few times (testing different patches) but indeed I never removed it before installing again. If it works, in a couple of hours I'll send my patches to lucazade so he can update his script...

No magic here... In my case, I don't get the "[drm] failed to load kernel module "psb"" error, so the problem is different. It looks like the module is loaded, but not initialised properly.

[nicodds]

I'm trying now, even if I've already reinstalled psb-kernel-source a few times (testing different patches) but indeed I never removed it before installing again. If it works, in a couple of hours I'll send my patches to lucazade so he can update his script...

I'm crossing my fingers

Well, ****! We'll have a long week-end...

[nicodds]

No magic here... In my case, I don't get the "[drm] failed to load kernel module "psb"" error, so the problem is different. It looks like the module is loaded, but not initialised properly.

In the trhead I previously mentioned, people write of a problem related to a kernel update. Maybe this in not the case, but what do you think about changing the kernel with one from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/?

I'm very sorry I can't help now :-(

[lucazade]

I'm trying now, even if I've already reinstalled psb-kernel-source a few times (testing different patches) but indeed I never removed it before installing again. If it works, in a couple of hours I'll send my patches to lucazade so he can update his script...

No magic here... In my case, I don't get the "[drm] failed to load kernel module "psb"" error, so the problem is different. It looks like the module is loaded, but not initialised properly.

:-k thinking about it..

[olmo62]

pensa Luca...pensa :-)
Aspettiamo tutti ....in modalita' grafica ridotta :-)

Sorry for italian...:-) All 751h owners wait your solution !!!
We have Pizza and Espresso for help you :)
Good work

[kurkosdr]

Hahaha!!! Go ahead Ubuntu, you are really giving MS a run for their money.

Every time I install ubuntu somewhere, I know beforehand that there is a 50% chance it will fail to see the hibernate (for laptops), or the tv card and soundcard (for desktops). And now this. It even failed to see intel gma. What's next? Failure to recognize Intel high definition audio and SATA disks?

Lol, I am done with this OS. I 've already given you guys way more sunny weekends of my life than you deserve

Ubuntu + Wine == Poor man's Windows Seven

Windows 7 + Chrome + VLC + Windows Media Center + Arcsoft TMT + Office 2007 + WinRar + TS Muxer + DVD Flick = All you 'll ever need.

[nicodds]

Hahaha!!! Go ahead Ubuntu, you are really giving MS a run for their money.

Every time I install ubuntu somewhere, I know beforehand that there is a 50% chance it will fail to see the hibernate (for laptops), or the tv card and soundcard (for desktops). And now this. It even failed to see intel gma. What's next? Failure to recognize Intel high definition audio and SATA disks?

Lol, I am done with this OS. I 've already given you guys way more sunny weekends of my life than you deserve

Ubuntu + Wine == Poor man's Windows Seven

Windows 7 + Chrome + VLC + Windows Media Center + Arcsoft TMT + Office 2007 + WinRar + TS Muxer + DVD Flick = All you 'll ever need.

Well, I'm happy you found your way!

[kurkosdr]

Well, I'm happy you found your way!

Maybe you will find it too and stop working as an unpaid beta tester for Stallman and Shuttleworth.

Just go to the start of your path and have a look: Ubuntu is mostly garbage, and the only reason you are using it is because Stallman's minions have brainwashed you into thinking that proprietary software = evil.

With proprietary software out of the way, what you are basically left with is open source, and, if you want open source to work, you must work as an unpaid beta tester for it, and even code for it

It's their way of recruiting people as unpaid beta testers and programmers, and then have those people work on their codebase for free.

Then, Shuttleworth makes millions of $$$es by selling support contracts, and Stallman makes even more million $$$es by selling licenses to companies that "didn't comply with the GPL". And all you got is an OS that can't even work with onboard graphics.

I came to this forum from some other forum (out of curiosity) and I can't believe you are spending so much time to help an OS like ubuntu. Just add up all the time you have wasted on this thing, and you could have gotten a job, pilled up a nice heap of 220$, quit the job, buy an OS that works, and live happily ever after.

[zerotri]

Kurkosdr, if you're not happy with the OS, go back to Windows. Nobody here is going to think 'less' of you for it. The point of using open source software is the freedom to find the software that suits you. Using something proprietary such as Windows or Mac OS, you get the safety of knowing that your hardware is likely to work because the developers of the hardware have a priority to write drivers for those operating systems. The fault here is with Canonical just as much as it is with Intel. The driver does not work with the newer X server version. Canonical chose a newer x server version likely for increased performance, stability, and features. Things are going to break here and there. It is not Canonical's responsibility to maintain the Poulsbo driver, which is Intel software. That responsibility is Intel's, just as it is their responsibility to update the drivers with a new release of any other operating system.

The people here are here by choice. They know the risks, they know the benefits. If you don't like them, nobody is forcing you to stay.

Choose the operating system that suits you best.

-Wynter Woods

[m0dcm]

Kurkosdr, if you're not happy with the OS, go back to Windows. Nobody here is going to think 'less' of you for it. The point of using open source software is the freedom to find the software that suits you. Using something proprietary such as Windows or Mac OS, you get the safety of knowing that your hardware is likely to work because the developers of the hardware have a priority to write drivers for those operating systems. The fault here is with Canonical just as much as it is with Intel. The driver does not work with the newer X server version. Canonical chose a newer x server version likely for increased performance, stability, and features. Things are going to break here and there. It is not Canonical's responsibility to maintain the Poulsbo driver, which is Intel software. That responsibility is Intel's, just as it is their responsibility to update the drivers with a new release of any other operating system.

The people here are here by choice. They know the risks, they know the benefits. If you don't like them, nobody is forcing you to stay.

Choose the operating system that suits you best.

-Wynter Woods

Yes Canonical chose to go with the latest X-Org, but so has Mandriva and they have Poulsbo working, so what are they doing that Micro... thats force of habit, Canonical aren't doing?
On the subject of it being down to Intel, I wrote a message on the Intel Forums about a new driver and I got a sarcastic reply saying that it was down to the Distro (Canonical) to get it working as they said there is a driver, the IEGD one.

There are hundreds maybe thousands of Netbook users that have the Poulsbo Chipset, chomping at the bits to use either Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop or the Netbook Remix and they can't because of this oversight. It's a mixture of the 2 companies, but surely the current drivers can be made to work in 10.04?

I for one will not be going back to Windows (Virus Magnet), I'll stick with 9.10 till April next year, and if nothing has been done to rectify the problem that other Distro's have managed to cure, I shall go onto one of those. As you say "FREEDOM OF CHOICE!!"

[Cifra]

Keeping my fingers crossed that someone finds a fix for this :)

[jbernardo]

Well, we are stuck now trying to find what is different between Mandriva and Ubuntu implementations that is making DRI not work, even if the module is loaded.
It's almost there...

[m0dcm]

Nice one! Will keep watching to see the outcome.
I just cannot believe some of the comments that have been banded about, it reminds me of the good old days of the Atari ST and Amiga Users all bitching at one another! I always said to them, and it still goes now, If we all used the same machines, the same OS's DAMN THE WORLD WOULD BE A BORING PLACE!!
I chose Linux after 15yrs of using Microsoft products, and I got bored of being told what I can and can't do, Linux has opened my eyes to a more Free world, and I am not going back!

I have faith that this problem will be solved.....

[mikewhatever]

Yes Canonical chose to go with the latest X-Org, but so has Mandriva and they have Poulsbo working, so what are they doing that Micro... thats force of habit, Canonical aren't doing? ...


Seems like a deja vu. http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9122787&postcount=4
The official release notes of the latest Mandriva do not mention gma500.
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2010.1_Beta2
Have you tested the beta2 (released today) to verify that it works with Poulsbo?

[jbernardo]

Mike, the difference is that Mandriva has xorg 1.7.x, has the packages in the cooker, and Lucazade and I have almost had success porting their patches to lucid. If you want to help, you're welcome.

[kazamx]

Dam, you guys are amazing.

To me this is all just magic, one second it doesn't work, next second you put up a guide and my comp works. How the hell do you manage this magic, on second thoughts don't tell me it would ruin the magic.

[Anfanglir]

The official release notes of the latest Mandriva do not mention gma500.
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2010.1_Beta2
Have you tested the beta2 (released today) to verify that it works with Poulsbo?

The Mandriva 2010.1 beta 2 released yesterday is the Free version, which, I belive, do not include proprietary drivers. Beta 2 of Mandriva One (with proprietary drivers) will be released on 3 of May. I'm hoping that release will have poulsbo support, since Blino have reported success in fixing these drivers:
http://blino.org/blog/mandriva/poulsbo-xserver1.7.html

/ Anfanglir

[mikewhatever]

The Mandriva 2010.1 beta 2 released yesterday is the Free version, which, I belive, do not include proprietary drivers. Beta 2 of Mandriva One (with proprietary drivers) will be released on 3 of May. I'm hoping that release will have poulsbo support, since Blino have reported success in fixing these drivers:
http://blino.org/blog/mandriva/poulsbo-xserver1.7.html

/ Anfanglir

Very very interesting. I an going to eagerly anticipate the release of Mandriva one beta. Thanks for the heads up.

Mike, the difference is that Mandriva has xorg 1.7.x, has the packages in the cooker, and Lucazade and I have almost had success porting their patches to lucid. If you want to help, you're welcome.

Well, I really don't know what I could do to help, as my xserver expertise barely borders on rudimentary. On the other hand, it looks like there is quite a gathering over in Italy, I mean, there is yourself, Lucazade, Alberto Milone. ... anyone else?:P

[descendent87]

Installed mandriva beta (free version but all you need to do is add non-free repo's once installed) and currently updating, next step is to try and get psb working, will report back here

[descendent87]

Well managed to get the driver working, correct resolution (1366x768px) but couldn't get 3D and 2D was extremely slow. Will wait for the beta on monday with restricted drivers to see if it was just something I did

[jbernardo]

Well managed to get the driver working, correct resolution (1366x768px) but couldn't get 3D and 2D was extremely slow. Will wait for the beta on monday with restricted drivers to see if it was just something I did
Did you add the cooker repository? I don't think the psb driver is in Mandriva main repository.

[descendent87]

Yeah installed the free version then added the cooker and non-free repo's, installed psb driver and all the other bits then rebooted. Resolution was set correctly but if I try to enable compositing I got a scrambled screen and 2D performance was worse than with vesa. Going to wait until tomorrows one version as I'm sure it was something I did and not the drivers

[jbernardo]

(Ubuntu mobile ppa)
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mobile/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter=jaunty (https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-mobile/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter=jaunty)

or

(Milone ppa.. libdrm-poulsbo good depencencies)
https://launchpad.net/~albertomilone/+archive/poulsbo-graphics (https://launchpad.net/%7Ealbertomilone/+archive/poulsbo-graphics)

or from my gma500_sources.tar.gz:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/Gma500/gma500_sources.tar.gz

Anyone who wants to follow up on this, here are the changes I made to Lucazade's sources:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6634890/sources.jbernardo.tar.bz2

Expand Lucazade's tarball, then expand mine, and apply it as a diff. I've imported Mandriva's patches to xserver-xorg-video-psb, changed the rules file, and updated the sources from 0.31 to 0.32 from UNR. I've also added a Mandriva patch to libdrm, and finally changed the kernel drivers to have a psb and a psb-drm modules, so it won't conflict with the existing drm module, and with autoinstall enabled so it will rebuild when you update kernel. These changes were also imported from Mandriva.
Unfortunately, it is still not enough. X won't start, even if the psb and psb-drm modules are loaded, as the /dev/dri entries don't get created. I've enabled debug for both modules, but there is no error in dmesg. I've also posted my Xorg.0.log. Any idea is welcome.

[alfrenovsky]

Ah, and for the people using the vesa driver, you can get 1366x768 by adding to /etc/grub.d/40-custom the lines that shaoxuan added to another thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1440310):
insmod 915resolution
915resolution 5c 1366 768
set gfxmode=1366x768
Then edit /etc/default/grub and add a line with "GRUB_GFXMODE=1366x768", then run "update-grub". On next reboot you'll have 1366x768 resolution in X, even if slow, at least it looks better.
Works for me. No acceleration but have the right resolution and can suspend, hibernate and chvt with no problem.
Enough for waiting the driver.

[Leed]

alfrenovsky

Just tried it on my machine, works fine in Grub, but no effect in X, resolution is still stuck at 800x600. Could I be missing something? Changes in Xorg.conf perhaps, been trying but without success

--edit
found my problem, T91 has resolution of 1024x600, just had to change it to get this working

[outlaw45]

Been following this thread for while and it seems to go in the right direction. Maybe if someone could point out which modules are causing problems, I'll try to help. Haven't got a lot of experience compiling kernel modules but I'll should be able to manage..

[at both ends]

Works for me. No acceleration but have the right resolution and can suspend, hibernate and chvt with no problem.
I have an Asus 1101HAB, dual boot Lucid and WinXP. I tried alfrenovsky's fix and it sort of works.

First problem is that it makes WinXP unbootable. I don't understand the new grub well enough to solve this.

Second problem is that the screen reverts to 1024x768 after a suspend. :(