Guide to Get the Best Performace from the GMA 500

[eTM_]

Actually that was just a pasting mistake: i had to change to fbdev in order to be able to write this message

Again (the now correct) pastes (Xorg.log was already the correct one):

http://paste.ubuntu.com/613372/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/613528/

Its a Sony Vaio VPCX (11.6 inch, 1366x768 as correctly enumerated during Xorg startup). Emgd is showing a distorted screen.

Juergen

check your paste at line 8..
it says that you are using the fbdev driver which is not emgd! replace "fbdev" in this line with "emgd" or use emgd-xorg-conf instead

EMGD (natty) is not working for me. Screen just shows random pixel dust (in the color of my theme though).

definition pixel dust: like in the old days with CRTs when you used an unsupported resolution.

Xorg.log:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/613372/

Its a Sony Vaio VPCX (11.6 inch, 1366x768 as correctly enumerated during Xorg starup)

Any Ideas?

p.s. i use the standard emgd.conf file which looks roughly okay. http://paste.ubuntu.com/613377/

[shiny shoes]

could anybody give me the console command for install mplayer from gma repo?

[tista]

Hi guys.

although I've been retired the GMA500 team, I've opened my blog:
Quieta non movere.

Soon I would sort some stuff for GMA500, tweaks, workarounds, patches, explanations, and more things what I've not been able to write down here... yeah it means I would support both you guys and team from backyard a bit.

If I could get GMA500 gears back, I would come back here...

Cheers.

[lucazade]

Hi guys.

although I've been retired the GMA500 team, I've opened my blog:
Quieta non movere.

Soon I would sort some stuff for GMA500, tweaks, workarounds, patches, explanations, and more things what I've not been able to write down here... yeah it means I would support both you guys and team from backyard a bit.

If I could get GMA500 gears back, I would come back here...

Cheers.

Hi Tista!

What a nice surprise!

"Usque ad finem" you are an honorary member of gma500 team..
I'll follow your blog closely, added to rss feeds.

See you!

[cheshirekow]

Actually, can anyone tell me if any of these packages can be upgraded as well? Are the downgraded packages in the emgd ppa just the newest binary packages from the repositories that match xorg 1.9? I.e are these versions selected for some intrinsic reason, or just because they are what was already packaged in binary form in the official repositories?

Answering my own questions again, in case anyone cares. The newer versions of these packages from debian are compatable with the older xserver, however, the ubuntu versions are not. The patches that are added in Natty to support multitouch all require the new xorg ABI.

It looks like if you want multitouch you have exactly one option: the PSB driver and xorg 1.10. No idea if multitouch works with the downgraded kernel yet.

[Anaesthisia]

Yesterday evening I installed Ubuntu with Wubi on a Nokia Booklet 3G that I acquired second hand for about €170. It seems to work decently, and from my short experience battery time seems to be decent. The instructions on the wiki worked without problems.

Is it possible to activate Compiz visual effects on the Nokia Booklet? I did so with a 20" laptop that features a more powerful graphics card, and that worked out nicely. But before I changed graphics driver to Nouveau and upgraded the kernel to 2.6.39, I had all kinds of freezes during startup.
Ubuntu 11.04 maybe wasn't properly tested before its release?

A

[cheshirekow]

Anyone successfully installed the PSB driver in Natty? When I reboot, I select the old kernel from "Previous Versions" in grub, but it does not boot. It looks like gdm fails to start because I see text written to the window.

* Stopping System V initialisation compatability [ OK ]
* Starting System V runlevel compatability       [ OK ]
* Stopping autotmatic crash report generation    [fail]
...

Here is how I installed it

mkdir psb110
cd psb110
wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/psb110/libdrm2_2.4.23-1ubuntu3_i386.deb
wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/psb110/libdrm-intel1_2.4.23-1ubuntu3_i386.deb
wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/psb110/libdrm-nouveau1a_2.4.23-1ubuntu3_i386.deb
wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/psb110/libdrm-radeon1_2.4.23-1ubuntu3_i386.deb
wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/psb110/linux-headers-2.6.35-28_2.6.35-28.49_all.deb
wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/psb110/linux-headers-2.6.35-28-generic_2.6.35-28.49_i386.deb
wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/psb110/linux-image-2.6.35-28-generic_2.6.35-28.49_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gma500/ppa
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gma500/psb110
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install poulsbo-driver-3d
sudo nano /etc/modules

#  add psb, save

sudo update-initramfs -u                       #probably isn't necessary

If I drop to a root shell on start and look at Xorg.0.log it says it fails to load the psb kernel module. If I run modprobe psb it says it cant find the module.

[lucazade]

@cheshirekow
what it the output of:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure psb-kernel-source
and:
modinfo psb

[gamx]

Hi,
I have just installed the emgd driver in a clean Natty following the instructions in the ubuntu wiki. Now, when it starts I only get a blurred image with lots of flickering. The model according to dmesg|grep DMI is

Sony Corporation VGN-P70H_G/VAIO, BIOS R1250U3 12/08/2008.

Is this model included in the script? And if not, what should I do?
Thanks,

Gamx

[Sakartu]

Thank you Sakartu! But uswsusp doesn't work for me
I'm really desperate about this. It appears that the Desktop is still running after suspend and weake-up, but I only see a blank screen.

Hey borghal (and rest),

After some testing I got the same problems as with default susp, so no solution there. I have switched over to hibernation instead of suspend, that seems to work a bit better (no problems yet, that is) and is fast enough for me (suspend or resume takes about 20 secs).

Since I already installed uswsusp I use s2disk to hibernate, seems to work fine.

Hope this works for you as well