Guide to Get the Best Performace from the GMA 500

[simplygades]

I'm trying to get a decent boot screen in maverick in any way but without success.

Thought you would like to try and confirm this one. Maybe with a bit of luck, I managed to see a beautiful plymouth, using this tutorial:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-t...4-140810.shtml

However I've currently replaced the "1280x1024" line with "1366x768". I know it shouldn't make a difference, but I think this prevented everything from being scrambled after an initial Plymouth screen. I'll check it again.
EDIT: Has nothing to do finally.

"no_fb=0"
in /etc/modprobe.d/poulsbo.conf


Please ignore the attached files.

[sammyboy405]

Updated for instructions for using 10.10

[lucazade]

Thought you would like to try and confirm this one. Maybe with a bit of luck, I managed to see a beautiful plymouth, using this tutorial:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-t...4-140810.shtml

However I've currently replaced the "1280x1024" line with "1366x768". I know it shouldn't make a difference, but I think this prevented everything from being scrambled after an initial Plymouth screen. I'll check it again.
EDIT: Has nothing to do finally.

"no_fb=0"
in /etc/modprobe.d/poulsbo.conf


Please ignore the attached files.

with no_fb=0 are you always able to restart and shutdown? here sometimes hangs with a black screen!

[simplygades]

with no_fb=0 are you always able to restart and shutdown? here sometimes hangs with a black screen!

So far yes, but I just noticed plymouth only appears on boot while I had managed it to boot and shutdown really smoothly. I'll try again and report.

Another issue I noticed with Maverick in Gnome, is that some fragments of the menus stay on the screen sometimes, and dissappear sometime later in a random way. Has anyone else noticed this behavior?

[lucazade]

Another issue I noticed with Maverick in Gnome, is that some fragments of the menus stay on the screen sometimes, and dissappear sometime later in a random way. Has anyone else noticed this behavior?

Yes, enabling metacity compositor there are some glicthes with menu dropshadows. there is an upstream bug in launchpad, it seems it doesn't depend on poulsbo anyway, it affects also other graphic cards.

[simplygades]

Update regarding Plymouth:

Setting:

/etc/modprobe.d/poulsbo.conf :

options psb disable_vsync=1 no_fb=1

and

/etc/initramfs-tools/modules:

# List of modules that you want to include in your initramfs.
#
# Syntax:  module_name [args ...]
#
# You must run update-initramfs(8) to effect this change.
#
# Examples:
#
# raid1
# sd_mod
# psb
# drm_psb
uvesafb mode_option=1366x768-24 mtrr=3 scroll=ywrap

/etc/default/grub:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset video=uvesafb:mode_option=1366x768-24,mtrr=3,scroll=ywrap"
...
...
...
GRUB_GFXMODE=1366x768

and executing in a terminal:

echo FRAMEBUFFER=y | sudo tee /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash

sudo apt-get install v86d

  sudo update-grub2 && sudo update-initramfs -u

and rebooting afterwards gave me graphical plymouth screen both on startup and shutdown and no suspend/shutdown problems so far. Hope it's all good indeed..

[lucazade]

[B]Update regarding Plymouth:
...
and rebooting afterwards gave me graphical plymouth screen both on startup and shutdown and no suspend/shutdown problems so far. Hope it's all good indeed..

It works like a charm!
Nice plymouth at startup and shutdown.
Working suspend and no shutdown issue.
Fine.. it seems not a poulsbo chipset!

now the issue is how to integrate this fix in poulsbo-config because we have to specify a resolution statically and it may vary on netbooks.

anyway great stuff!

note: from terminal this should print out display size:
xrandr | grep \* | cut -d' ' -f4
maybe useful to integrate fix.

[dtruesdale]

What is the best way to upgrade from 10.04 to 10.10 with the repository changes? I keep getting the calculating error every time I try to upgrade to Maverick.Is it one of the 3rd party ppa repo's?

[legoman666]

Following the directions in post 1 for 10.10 on a Dell 1010 makes X not work after rebooting after changing xorg.conf. I had no idea how to fix it so I had to reinstall 10.10 twice.

[zombolo]

Any way to install 10.10 on vaio p?
I am stuck at boot with blank screen initram dialogue.
2000mb ctrl+x seems not working.

Thanks in advance!!!