[Intel-gfx] GMA 500 Support

Eric Appleman erappleman at gmail.com
Sun Sep 27 00:34:26 CEST 2009


On 09/26/2009 04:39 PM, David A. Greene wrote:
> I am interested in getting the GMA 500 (Pouslbo) chipset working in Linux.
> I've done some small investigating into the (unmaintained) Ubuntu driver.
> I believe this should get integrated with the intel-gfx effort and be an
> officially supported driver.
> 
> What's the best way to get started.  Right now I'm hacking the Debian
> unstable sources, trying to integrate the Ubuntu driver in there.  
> Unfortunately, the Ubuntu driver seems quite stale (doesn't use GEM,
> etc.) and so the going is rough.
> 
> Any documentation on the GMA 500 I can look at?  I don't care about
> 3D yet.  Getting decent 2D performance is the first step.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>                          -Dave
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Give this a try.

http://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo

- Eric



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