Guide to Get the Best Performace from the GMA 500

[olmo62]

For almost working 3d (there is still bitmap corruption, but at least now it seems stable), add this ppa; https://launchpad.net/~albertomilone/+archive/ppa and update. Make sure you install packages ending with tseliot3 (at least 3). Then edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and comment (add a # to the beginning of the line) the line with 'Option "ShadowFB"'.
Restart X and you should have 3d and video.

Edit: Scrolling is broken at least in firefox and in konsole, so you might want to wait a little.

ahhh...question: my webcam image very slow. No 3d = slow webcam ?

[ocbexpress]

I'm updating Ubuntu.com's Howtos.
Because I have an Asus 1201HA, I'm starting writing down a preliminary guide for the new Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid, then I'll move the video step on appropriate page and so on.
So have a look at:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidOn1201ha
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupp...eoCardsPoulsbo
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupp...hines/Netbooks

And now my question:
HOW TO INSTALL IT?
(1) with the command "wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/Gma5...ulsbo_lucid.sh && bash ./poulsbo_lucid.sh" ?
(2) or with some PPA? witch one? and then you have to modify the X configuration?

and, FOR 3D?
"For almost working 3d (there is still bitmap corruption, but at least now it seems stable), add this ppa; https://launchpad.net/~albertomilone/+archive/ppa and update. Make sure you install packages ending with tseliot3 (at least 3). Then edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and comment (add a # to the beginning of the line) the line with 'Option "ShadowFB"'.
Restart X and you should have 3d and video.
Edit: Scrolling is broken at least in firefox and in konsole, so you might want to wait a little." ???

Please confirm so I can write down a good howto for all.
A last thing: do you appreciate a link to your persons or to a project page?

Thank You,
Valerio from Roma

[olmo62]

Vale...usa l'opzione 1

wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/Gma5...ulsbo_lucid.sh && bash ./poulsbo_lucid.sh

meglio se da root.

Il 3d , se non ho capito male, e' ancora molto "beta"...meglio aspettare qualche giorno

[kgingeri]

Hey Anyone, I just reinstalled 10.04 UNE to ensure I have a clean system, but now I'm getting errors like:

...

STEP 3
Installing package libdrm-poulsbo1_2.3.0-1ubuntu0sarvatt4~1004um1_i386.deb... DONE
Installing package libdrm-poulsbo1-dbg_2.3.0-1ubuntu0sarvatt4~1004um1_i386.deb... DONE
Installing package libva1_0.31.0-1+sds9.1_i386.deb... DONE
Installing package libva1-dbg_0.31.0-1+sds9.1_i386.deb... DONE
Installing package poulsbo-config_0.1_all.deb... DONE
Installing package psb-firmware_0.30-0ubuntu1netbook1_i386.deb... DONE
Installing package psb-kernel-source_4.42.0-0ubuntu2~1004um1_all.deb... DONE
Installing package xpsb-glx_0.18-0ubuntu1netbook2~1004um1_i386.deb... dpkg-deb (subprocess): short read in buffer_copy (failed to write to pipe in copy)
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste returned error exit status 2
dpkg: error processing /tmp/xpsb-glx_0.18-0ubuntu1netbook2~1004um1_i386.deb (--install):
 short read in buffer_copy (backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/lib/dri/psb_dri.so')
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /tmp/xpsb-glx_0.18-0ubuntu1netbook2~1004um1_i386.deb
FAIL
Installing package xpsb-glx-dbg_0.18-0ubuntu1netbook2~1004um1_i386.deb... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xpsb-glx-dbg:
 xpsb-glx-dbg depends on xpsb-glx (= 0.18-0ubuntu1netbook2~1004um1); however:
  Package xpsb-glx is not installed.
dpkg: error processing xpsb-glx-dbg (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 xpsb-glx-dbg
FAIL
Installing package xserver-xorg-video-psb_0.36.0-0ubuntu3~1004um3_i386.deb... DONE
Installing package xserver-xorg-video-psb-dbg_0.36.0-0ubuntu3~1004um3_i386.deb... DONE

STEP 4
...

Any ideas? (this was using the "wget ..." script)

UPDATE: Just did a reinstall and I get a ton of errors. The PPA method is not working for me either - can't find psb-modules at all? I may not have a clue about this, but it did work for me previously ;v)

[jbernardo]

And now my question:
HOW TO INSTALL IT?
(1) with the command "wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/Gma5...ulsbo_lucid.sh && bash ./poulsbo_lucid.sh" ?
(2) or with some PPA? witch one? and then you have to modify the X configuration?

You can do it both ways - use Lucazade script, or use the gma500 ppa - https://launchpad.net/~gma500/+archive/ppa. In both cases, you won't have to edit xorg.conf after things are stable, because the package pouslbo-config will do it for you. For now, the script is safer, as it is setting the "correct" options in xorg.conf

and, FOR 3D?

For 3D you should wait. Either it will be available as a fix for xorg-core, and so you'll need a PPA until it gets into backports, or will be a patch for the psb drivers, and you won't need any extras. For now, you can use the PPA I indicated, and have 3D but with bitmap and scroll problems.

A last thing: do you appreciate a link to your persons or to a project page?

Thank You,
Valerio from Roma

You can do both, for me is the same.
PS: Does the 1201HA need the "Acpi_osi=Linux" entry in grub to be able to load the eeepc_laptop module, like the 1101HA?

[ocbexpress]

PS: Does the 1201HA need the "Acpi_osi=Linux" entry in grub to be able to load the eeepc_laptop module, like the 1101HA?

Yes, I changed the option in /etc/default/grub like this:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor splash"

Regards,
Valerio from Roma

[lokutus25]

Seems there are some problems with Dropbox. I downloaded the last http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/Gma5...ulsbo_lucid.sh script but not all the wget inside retrieve packages.
Look:
--2010-05-14 10:01:26-- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/Gma5...4~psb_i386.deb
Resolving dl.dropbox.com... 174.129.212.16, 174.129.242.127, 184.73.197.198, ...
Connecting to dl.dropbox.com|174.129.212.16|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 NOT FOUND
2010-05-14 10:01:26 ERROR 404: NOT FOUND.

--2010-05-14 10:01:26-- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/Gma5...4~psb_i386.deb
Resolving dl.dropbox.com... 174.129.33.164, 174.129.212.16, 174.129.242.127, ...
Connecting to dl.dropbox.com|174.129.33.164|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 NOT FOUND
2010-05-14 10:01:27 ERROR 404: NOT FOUND.

It doesn't seems my problem because some of the packages are retrieved wile others are not.
Am I right?

Thanks Guys!

[lucazade]

Seems there are some problems with Dropbox. I downloaded the last http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/Gma5...ulsbo_lucid.sh script but not all the wget inside retrieve packages.
Look:
--2010-05-14 10:01:26-- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/Gma5...4~psb_i386.deb
Resolving dl.dropbox.com... 174.129.212.16, 174.129.242.127, 184.73.197.198, ...
Connecting to dl.dropbox.com|174.129.212.16|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 NOT FOUND
2010-05-14 10:01:26 ERROR 404: NOT FOUND.

--2010-05-14 10:01:26-- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/Gma5...4~psb_i386.deb
Resolving dl.dropbox.com... 174.129.33.164, 174.129.212.16, 174.129.242.127, ...
Connecting to dl.dropbox.com|174.129.33.164|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 NOT FOUND
2010-05-14 10:01:27 ERROR 404: NOT FOUND.

It doesn't seems my problem because some of the packages are retrieved wile others are not.
Am I right?

Thanks Guys!

Looks like there is some old version of the script in your dir, remove it and re-try

[lokutus25]

Looks like there is some old version of the script in your dir, remove it and re-try

Me stupid! wget didn't replace the script while downloading it. My fault!
Thanx for the patience!

[honikos]

For almost working 3d (there is still bitmap corruption, but at least now it seems stable), add this ppa; https://launchpad.net/~albertomilone/+archive/ppa and update. Make sure you install packages ending with tseliot3 (at least 3). Then edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and comment (add a # to the beginning of the line) the line with 'Option "ShadowFB"'.
Restart X and you should have 3d and video.

Edit: Scrolling is broken at least in firefox and in konsole, so you might want to wait a little.

(add a # to the beginning of the line) the line with 'Option "Shado wFB"'

. didn't work on my asus 1101 ha. I think it has somesthing to do with acpi and batterycheck - service. Wasn't able to log in neither in recovery modus. had to fix it on console with vim editor. now all works fine but cpu-stress is very high. memory usage is quite low.... any idea?
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asus 1101 ha, gma500 video