Comments on: Intel GMA500 (Poulsbo) on Fedora 11: repository (with working 3D / compiz support)

By: AdamW on Linux and more » Blog Archive » FUDCon Toronto 2009 wrap-up

AdamW on Linux and more » Blog Archive » FUDCon Toronto 2009 wrap-up — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:25:02 +0000

[...] people. Over the three days of the conference, I must have talked to at least 20 people about Poulsbo. It’s a very hot topic, and it’s only going to get hotter. The theme is still one of [...]

By: adamw

adamw — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:50:02 +0000

Nah, Ubuntu does too. Actually, most distros will, Fedora 12 is one of very few where it _can’t_ work. The difference is simply X server version; F12 went to X server 1.7 while most releases this round stuck with 1.6. The problem is the psb driver does not work with server 1.7.

By: sreejiraj

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:31:27 +0000

@edward i tried installing from the ‘fedora 12′ repo from adam’s site.. sadly, i didn’t make it to X on reboot However, the install process didn’t report any errors, i think.. anyway, more waiting I guess.. currently on opensuse11.2 till then (the only distro, apart from mandriva, that has working poulsbo on its latest version?)

By: pysco68

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:07:26 +0000

BTW, for Ubuntu 9.10 there is a simple tutorial over there: http://blog.ygraphix.net/2009/11/08/intel-gma500-poulsbo-on-kubuntu-9-10/

it’s french but copiing the command line contents is enough to get trough, and it definately works!

By: edward.h.welbon

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:27:36 +0000

By the way, I don’t want to come off as unappreciative of the not inconsiderable effort that you put into the port of the Poulsbo Video driver for F11. I am very glad that you did it. I only wish there was some way I could help.

By: edward.h.welbon

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:37:44 +0000

I installed the psb driver in Fedora 11 on an Acer One (A0751h with 1366 x 768 display) without a hitch. It certainly improved the graphics performance and seemed to work well. However, my will power is weak and I have installed Fedora 12 (in part to to get the stated Atom performance improvements).

But I don’t see a psb driver for Fedora 12 in the rpm fusion archive (I followed the instructions for enabling the archive). My guess is that you have not yet ported the psb/poulsbo/gma500 driver to F12, do you think you will?

I suppose that if you end up building a specific kernel (one that does not support PAE) that you would build it with the Atom improvements (which would seem ideal).

By: johnscott

johnscott — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:11:14 +0000

Since my previous comment re Poulsbo driver Fedora 11 Acer Asire 751, I have stumbled upon the solution. Having installed kmodtool, akmods, psb-firmware, akmod-psb, a reboot installed the Driver “psb” perfectly.
It has made an amazing improvement.
Many thanks again.

By: adamw

adamw — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:59:52 +0000

if the xorg.conf gets written with ‘vesa’ it means the kernel module for the psb driver is not available, Make sure you have the right kernel-devel package for your running kernel installed; see the note in the post about how sometimes yum seems to install the wrong one, and check it.

By: johnscott

johnscott — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:27:22 +0000

Thank you for your Poulsbo driver for Fedora 11.
Unfortunately my new Acer Aspire 751 will not reboot with the psb driver and I ask whether you could suggest a way forward.

1 .. yum install xorg-x11-drv-psb completes perfectly
2 .. manual edit of xorg.conf to line Driver “psb” is overwritten on reboot to Driver “vesa”
3 .. use of your posted xorg.conf results in no driver loaded, ie terminal only
4 .. deletion of xorg.conf results in a new autogenerated file with once again Driver “vesa”
5 .. adding Option “IgnoreACPI” “yes” makes no difference

I would be most grateful for your ideas

By: cbrace

cbrace — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:34:49 +0000

Poulsbo isn’t officially supported by Ubuntu 9.10, but someone has already fixed that:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo

I had no luck with this, but perhaps someone else will.