Poulsbo drivers will not be in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

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madgrt
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Poulsbo drivers will not be in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

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Status of Poulsbo drivers under karmic?
David Mandala david.mandala at canonical.com
Tue Aug 4 17:30:30 BST 2009


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Morten Kjeldgaard wrote:
> A couple of months ago, I blogged on Ubuntu Planet on my experiences
> with Ubuntu on the Dell Mini 10 netbook [1]. Since then, the posting
> has attracted quite a few comments from others interested in running
> Ubuntu on that (very nice) netbook. The key point is, that In order to
> get the GMA-500 video card going at nominal resolution under jaunty,
> you need to activate the PPA from the competent people in the Ubuntu-
> Mobile team and install the psb driver from there.
>
> I am curious to know whether the Poulsbo drivers are going to be in
> the official distribution of Karmic Koala, and if the video card will
> be detected by the installer. Any news on this?

I'm quite sorry to say that the Poulsbo drivers will not be in Karmic
Koala. The Poulsbo chipset has a proprietary section to the driver and
Intel has said they are not supporting Karmic Koala, so its out of my hands.

Cheers,

David
Reference: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubunt ... 28670.html

prj
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Re: Poulsbo drivers will not be in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

Post by prj »

Sad but true

We might get 2D support into the kernel tree in the future (http://www.mail-archive.com/dri-devel@l ... 38853.html) but apparently it will be crippled since some 2D accel is dependent on the 3D binary.

madgrt
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Re: Poulsbo drivers will not be in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

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So does that mean we will always be reliant on Compulabs for a 'FitPC2 version' of Ubuntu???

prj
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Re: Poulsbo drivers will not be in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

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Probably. If there is a driver at all for them to distribute.

mat91
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Re: Poulsbo drivers will not be in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

Post by mat91 »

http://gadgetmix.com/index/new-gma-500- ... mic-koala/

and

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1253406


Hi , maybe this can help , not tested , im doing it actualy.

Dear,

scotte
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Re: Poulsbo drivers will not be in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

Post by scotte »

For what it is worth, I'm happily using Ubuntu 8.04 installed from Canonical's CD, no special drivers, and regular Ubuntu-supplied updates, and the resolution is fine. I happen to be using the July BIOS.

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