I picked up a refurbished Asus Eee PC 1201HAB last week and promptly installed Lucid Netbook Edition. And, of course, discovered the issues with GMA 500. Actually, with the "out-of-the-box" Lucid install, performance wasn't bad, but video playback was almost usuable.
So, I ended up at:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupp...eoCardsPoulsbo and followed the instructions there for Lucid:
Code:
Open a terminal and type:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gma500/ppa && sudo apt-get update
this command will add 'GMA500 PPA' repository and update database
sudo apt-get install poulsbo-driver-2d poulsbo-driver-3d poulsbo-config
after your system will be installed with all needed packages, you must restart your netbook.
/!\ Use following notes for your models:
* 3D still broken (shadowFB enabled, compiz will be removed)
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On Asus and Sony Vaio add the following workarounds:
sudo nano /etc/default/grub
find correct line and update to below
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash mem=2000mb acpi_osi=Linux"
Then update your grub config
sudo update-grub
That didn't seem to help (actually resulted in the screen freezing at login). So, I saw where GMA 500 appeared to be fully supported in Karmic 9.10. So, I installed that. That's what I have now, but performance is not as good now as it was with Lucid.
So, I'm very confused as to what I need to do. This thread is so long (over 1000 posts!), it's difficult to decipher exactly what I need to do to get the best performance.
So, here I am seeking your help. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Robert
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