Guide to Get the Best Performace from the GMA 500

[jbernardo]

Been following this thread for while and it seems to go in the right direction. Maybe if someone could point out which modules are causing problems, I'll try to help. Haven't got a lot of experience compiling kernel modules but I'll should be able to manage..

Check my post at #496 on this thread. You can download lucazade's work then my patches over that. If you can find out why /dev/dri isn't being created, that would be great.

[outlaw45]

@jbernardo: can't open your diff file, looks like a different encoding... Could you upload the file in UTF-8 encoding (or specify the encoding that you use)..

I'll try to make a start tonight (GMT+1) cause I'm at work right now

[jbernardo]

I'm also at work... The file itself is a tarball (created with tar -cjf), including a diff which will then expand into other diffs. I created it with "diff -urNad".

[prisciou]

I have an Asus 1101HAB, dual boot Lucid and WinXP. I tried alfrenovsky's fix and it sort of works.

First problem is that it makes WinXP unbootable. I don't understand the new grub well enough to solve this.

Second problem is that the screen reverts to 1024x768 after a suspend.

I have too the same problem. I think that 915resolution wants to change the resolution and thus blocks the winxp startup. I don't know if it is possible to activate 915resolution only for lucid.

[outlaw45]

@jbernardo: If I extract the tar file I get one textfile (.diff) which I can't open.. gedit doesn't recognize the encoding and forcing it to UTF-8 doesn't help...

edit:
didn't read your post correctly.. How do you expand the diff file into other .diff files?

[jbernardo]

Expand first the tarball from lucazade (gma500...), then cd into the tar directory, and do a "patch -p1 < ../jbernardo.diff".
You should end up with a couple extra tarballs (as I updated the base sources for xserver-xorg-video-psb to 0.32) and some extra diffs... Then you have to follow the same approach in each directory: expand original source (if it exists), cd into the directory, "gunzip -cd ../lucazades.diff.gz | patch -p1", then "patch -p1 ../bernardos.diff", and you should end up with the sources.
With all this mess, seems like it is the time to set up a svn repository. Anyone recommends a free hosting server for it?

[outlaw45]

I'll try that tonight

[priegog]

With all this mess, seems like it is the time to set up a svn repository. Anyone recommends a free hosting server for it?

Or you could do a sorta-repository with a script and updating the tarball on a dropbox public folder...

[jbernardo]

I'll check assembla today. Seems like a good alternative.

[lucazade]

With all this mess, seems like it is the time to set up a svn repository. Anyone recommends a free hosting server for it?

http://code.google.com/p/gma500/

I've opened a google-code svn repo.
Jbernardo give me your email and i'll add you to ProjectMembers
(anyone one else interested in write-access contact me)