Intel GMA500 drivers for Ubuntu 9.04 on fit-pc2

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minibox
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Intel GMA500 drivers for Ubuntu 9.04 on fit-pc2

Post by minibox »

Hi

Please could anyone assist with Intel GMA500 graphics drivers for Ubuntu 9.04 on the Fit-PC2, this is a major concern as we would like to roll out to customers looking for Ubuntu based system.

fluffycloud
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Re: Intel GMA500 drivers for Ubuntu 9.04 on fit-pc2

Post by fluffycloud »

Have you tried what that guy said?

-Fluffy

irads

Re: Intel GMA500 drivers for Ubuntu 9.04 on fit-pc2

Post by irads »

Seems like the new drivers work on Ubuntu 8.10
We could not yet get them to work on 9.04

tkmedia
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Re: Intel GMA500 drivers for Ubuntu 9.04 on fit-pc2

Post by tkmedia »

Have you actually got it running yourself on 0810 Irads?


I get
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libgl1-mesa-dri-psb_0.25-0ubuntu1~810um1.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/pkgconfig/gl.pc', which is also in package libgl1-mesa-dev
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Selecting previously deselected package poulsbo-driver-3d.
Unpacking poulsbo-driver-3d (from .../poulsbo-driver-3d_1-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libgl1-mesa-dri-psb_0.25-0ubuntu1~810um1.1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

When trying to install the psb3d drivers on 0810

Tim

eran
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Re: Intel GMA500 drivers for Ubuntu 9.04 on fit-pc2

Post by eran »

Sadly that's not a simple matter, as the drivers' source is not openly available. This affects not only the Fit-PC, but some new netbooks (Like Dell's 12" and Sony Vaio P). There's a story that details the situation of the drivers from 3 months ago:

http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/01/30 ... e-screwed/

And another piece about it:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n ... &px=NzAyOQ

fluffycloud
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Re: Intel GMA500 drivers for Ubuntu 9.04 on fit-pc2

Post by fluffycloud »

Hi Eran,

Yes, I've posted those articles here previously. The 'old' drivers would work on 804 just fine, but anything newer was out of luck. This thread is about an update since the time those articles were written to get the drivers working on 810.

-Fluffy

eran
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Re: Intel GMA500 drivers for Ubuntu 9.04 on fit-pc2

Post by eran »

I do believe the situation will improve greatly soon - as this chipset is designated by Intel to be used by their current line until later this year when they'll introduce a newer line and it is present in several high-profile netbooks.

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