Installing on the Dell Mini 12

[marduk667]

i now have set the driver "psb" in the xorg.conf and it starts, but then it fails because it cannot load the psb.ko kernel driver (which it needs for dri).

I am not sure how i can get this module as it seems not to be in the modules-packages

but it recognizes the hardware, it also recognizes the correct resolution, it just does not start

[marduk667]

Hey what do you think about the MID Image?

http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/debian.../iso/intrepid/

I have not tried it but perhaps the correct driver is included?

For devices using the Low-Power Intel Architecture, including the A1xx and Atom processors.

[kylecronan]

Try downgrading the kernel following this:

http://linuxd.wordpress.com/2008/11/...-the-easy-way/

Which kernel version to use may require some experimentation: if we're lucky 2.6.26 will fix the SATA issue (improving performance) while still allowing psb drivers to work.

Then it should be possible to enable hardy repos to grab just the psb driver. But X may need to be downgraded as well, I'm not sure.

Ah, a MID image, I didn't see that! I'll check it out.

edit: or are you still at 8.04.1? I wasn't sure what you meant by "patches", before. If it's hardy, I don't get why X would work in the LiveCD and not after the install.

[kylecronan]

btw, does your hard drive click at all? I've been hearing this occasionally and am worried I might have a drive that is already failing.

[kylecronan]

In other news, Intrepid fixes sound but breaks the wired NIC. *sigh*

[marduk667]

hey,

sorry, i went to bed last night (it was 0:30 here ).

So at the moment i am still at 8.04.1 with all available hardy patches, but there is the problem with the X-Server.

And yes, i also have the clicking of the harddrive, hope it is not a defect

[kylecronan]

Hey, that's a big relief to me about the hard drive- I think it must be normal then.

I'm still trying to figure it all out, but my guess so far is that the xorg psb video drivers can be made to work with 2.6.24 by compiling the psb-kmd source package here:

http://v1.moblin.org/build-results/p.../psb-kmd/lpia/

I found that the tar.gz there and the drm-poulsbo included in ubuntu kernel sources are both much earlier versions (it will complain about not having a firmware file- could there really be a firmware image for a graphic chipset?), whereas the binary packages won't work because of the different kernel architecture.

I didn't find any psb.ko on that MID image.

[marduk667]

I tried to boot the MID-Image but it also cant start the graphical mode as VESA fails. I will now try to compile the module!

edit: i tried the standby/hibernate, but it does not work

[marduk667]

ah the forums back up.

So i tried to install the kernel module but i get symbol errors when trying to load either the new drm.ko or the psb.ko.

I try to contact the moblin irc now...

[kylecronan]

Ok, so here is info on the _actual_ latest version of the code:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...24/+bug/291582

You have to enable hardy-proposed, fetch source with 'apt-get source', and then do a fakeroot build of the linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-23-generic package. Don't know yet- it's taking a while to compile because of some unrelated module changes, but I have high hopes this one will do it!

edit: also, it needs CONFIG_DRM_PSB=m added to the debian/config/i386 file. This is the reason the binary package doesn't include psb.ko, even in hardy-proposed.