Guide to Get the Best Performace from the GMA 500

[thermatk]

Hmm, may be you are right, I still don't know

OFFTOPIC: BTW, tihoulas have you got the touchscreen's multitouch working out of the box? i think after we end up fightting with GMA500 (after we win), we can collaborate about all other stuff...

[Ludalex]

So, guys, I have EeePC 1101ha. Wich distro/release is best for this Gma500?

[simplygades]

Hello.
Just installed Kubuntu daily build, blacklisted poulsbo, all gone well and the performance is good with KDE 4.8 RC2. However I got a bit confused with the bug report about vt.handoff=7. Should I add any GRUB options at all? When it boots I end up with KDM screen 1024x768 which auto-reloads in the correct resolution if I switch to terminal and load the psb_gfx module manually. Any suggestions would be helpful and greatly appreciated. Thanks!

UPDATE: Stupid me, I should run update-initramfs -u, otherwise it kept loading poulsbo, however I then faced the black screen instead of KDM. Then I removed vt.handoff=7 and now I have X running properly on VT #8 instead of #7. If I got right what Lucazade wrote on the bug report it doesn't have to do with plymouth, so is removing vt.handoff=7 what is needed at the moment?

[bodhi.zazen]

Hello.
Just installed Kubuntu daily build, blacklisted poulsbo, all gone well and the performance is good with KDE 4.8 RC2. However I got a bit confused with the bug report about vt.handoff=7. Should I add any GRUB options at all? When it boots I end up with KDM screen 1024x768 which auto-reloads in the correct resolution if I switch to terminal and load the psb_gfx module manually. Any suggestions would be helpful and greatly appreciated. Thanks!

UPDATE: Stupid me, I should run update-initramfs -u, otherwise it kept loading poulsbo, however I then faced the black screen instead of KDM. Then I removed vt.handoff=7 and now I have X running properly on VT #8 instead of #7. If I got right what Lucazade wrote on the bug report it doesn't have to do with plymouth, so is removing vt.handoff=7 what is needed at the moment?

Welcome to psb_gfx =)

Support will get better as the bug reports get resolved.

I skin the cat another way, on my netbook I do this

Edit "/etc/default/grub"

Change the line – 'GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash” ' to

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="poulsbo.blacklist=yes console=tty1"

Update grub

sudo update-grub

[jbernardo]

So, guys, I have EeePC 1101ha. Wich distro/release is best for this Gma500?

It depends... Some of us with the 1101HA can't use a 3.x kernel, which means any ubuntu from 11.10 onwards, as it fails after a few seconds with a kernel panic. Others are able to use it without problems, running psb_gfx or EMGD depending on their needs.

[Ludalex]

It depends... Some of us with the 1101HA can't use a 3.x kernel, which means any ubuntu from 11.10 onwards, as it fails after a few seconds with a kernel panic. Others are able to use it without problems, running psb_gfx or EMGD depending on their needs.

Thanks.
So, what's your advice? Between all of these versions/drivers I can't figure what's the best for my little netbook

[Ludalex]

Thanks.
So, what's your advice? Between all of these versions/drivers I can't figure what's the best for my little netbook

Sorry to bother you guys. I chose to install 11.04 desktop for my 1101HA. Now, what's the best driver for 2d? (I care more about this than Hardware Acceleration, but being able to view YouTube videos would be great).

[jbernardo]

Thanks.
So, what's your advice? Between all of these versions/drivers I can't figure what's the best for my little netbook

Well, I'd go back to the last version where psb worked. I am not using the notebook right now, only trying every week if the new nightly now boots or still gives a kernel panic...

[tihoulas]

Hmm, may be you are right, I still don't know

OFFTOPIC: BTW, tihoulas have you got the touchscreen's multitouch working out of the box? i think after we end up fightting with GMA500 (after we win), we can collaborate about all other stuff...

Still no luck with a custom xorg.conf...
As for multitouch, it should work well as soon as we got this running : all it needs is xorg 1.10 and a linux kernel 3.0. That's why I am trying emgd 1.10. If you can live without multitouch, emgd 1.8 is fine.

[thermatk]

I need multitouch and Youtube, Armagetron is running with EMGD 1.8
I can't understand which sense it has to delete this resolution as it's the common netbook one...