GMA500 (Poulsbo) gma500_gfx

[bodhi.zazen]

id did that with the liveUSB, i am currently post install and instead of a half black screen, it is now completely black, and i'd like to know how to get it to function.

What configuration changes did you make post-install ?

[jherskow]

No, as soon as I installed 12.04 I restarted the computer, and since then it's always a black screen. If I plug in an external monitor the external monitor stays black and the regular screen displays only left two thirds of the picture.

[bodhi.zazen]

Restart X as described on the wiki page.

Then make the post install configuration changes.

Alternately use Ubuntu 12.10 or Fedora 17, both have a more recent kernel and both will have X working out of the box.

All this is described on the wiki page you were given

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupp...8Desktop.29_CD

[jherskow]

Ok, i did the grub edit to tty1, but im still getting a completely blank screen.


-12.04 of an AAO 751h. fresh install.

[bodhi.zazen]

You are going to be more specific then that. What edit did you make exactly ? And did you you then update grub ?

[godfazr]

Ok, i did the grub edit to tty1, but im still getting a completely blank screen.


-12.04 of an AAO 751h. fresh install.

Try next:
1. Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 then Ctrl+Alt+F7 to see desktop;
2. Remove "splash" from boot options (in same place where you're adding tty1);
3. Update grub.
That helped me with my AAO 751h.

[jherskow]

I'm not too savvy a user, could you explain what you mean by remove splash?
Does that mean removing the entire line, or just the word splash from that line?

Thanks

[bodhi.zazen]

I'm not too savvy a user, could you explain what you mean by remove splash?
Does that mean removing the entire line, or just the word splash from that line?

Thanks

Just the word splash

FWIW - an updated kernel will not have this problem. The easy choices for an updated kernel would be to use Ubuntu 12.10 or Fedora 17.

Ubuntu 12.10 is in alpha, so may be buggy.
Fedora 17 looks stable, but gnome is slow, so use kde, xfce, or lxde spins.

The other option would be to install an updated kernel from backports.

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

[thermatk]

Anyone knows what is this?
http://people.freedesktop.org/~zhen/cedarview/
That thing could make us happy in addition to gma500_gfx

[jherskow]

Thanks! removing splash did the trick for me...

is there anything underway to enable 3d and hardware acceleration?