Nice WORKING howto for debian squeeze users

[mwgrient]

http://wiki.debian.org/IntelEmbeddedMediaGraphicsDriver

I have tested it, and with some mod. to the xorg.conf file, I have got it working.
Nice weekend project!

[mwgrient]

http://pastebin.com/9TD4nbsZ

Above is a working copy of my xorg.conf for the fit-pc2. Rev. 1.4
Cheers.

[Dominik]

That sounds very good! But I can't find a "IEMGD_1_5_2_GOLD_1816_Extract.exe" at http://edc.intel.com/Software/Downloads/EMGD. At "Download Now" I can still just select Fedora or MeeGo. Where can I find this file?

Ok I found it. All OS have the same file IEMGD_1_5_2_GOLD_ALL_1816.zip. And If I extract IEMGD_1_5_2_GOLD_ALL_1816.zip I get IEMGD_1_5_2_GOLD_1816_Extract.exe

[mwgrient]

I did a download for Fedora... It's just a bundel of drivers for a couple of Linux versions.

[Dominik]

hm, which kernel do you use? I had no errors during compilation/installation. But at the end, when trying to insert the new modul, I just get:

`--# modprobe emgd
WARNING: Error inserting drm_kms_helper (/lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_kms_helper.ko): Cannot allocate memory
FATAL: Error inserting emgd (/lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/emgd/emgd.ko): Cannot allocate memory

I will try to update my squeeze.

[mwgrient]

2.6.32-fit-pc2
I buil;d a custom kernel, but it is based on the stock kernel 2.6.32, as you can see.

Did you do a reboot afther the installation?

[Dominik]

2.6.32-fit-pc2
I buil;d a custom kernel, but it is based on the stock kernel 2.6.32, as you can see.

Did you do a reboot afther the installation?

Is a reboot really necessary. At the moment, I cannot do a reboot. But a few minutes ago I updated
linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-27 with
linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-30
(also headers and source), so I will do a reboot in the next time, if possible

What did you change at your custom kernel?

[mwgrient]

The DRM for the poulsbo driver has to be initialized. This happens at the startup of your computer.
My Debian squeeze is completely up-to-date.

My kernel s optimized for the atom processor, and I turned off a lot of features wich I did not need. You can work perfectly with the stock kernel.

[Dominik]

Ok, I rebooted and the driver works! I can't believe! Never thought this would ever happen:

glxgears -> 360 fps (fbdev 120fps)
scrolling -> smoothly enough (like fbdev, I used before)
xv-video -> works => Now I can watch videos in fullscreen. Yeah!

So now I have to build a mplayer with vaapi support for HD-Videos?


correction: Unfortunatly scrolling is not as smoothly as with fbdev. For example this forum sometimes really bucks, when scrolling with mouse-wheel. My browser (seamonkey) even one time freezes. With fbdev my browser never freeze before!

addition2: When I drag the sidebar and draw it slowly up or down and drop it: The window is still scrolling a couple of time after droping! This is very bad. Hm, maybe I will switch between fbdev and emgd for "normal working" or multimedia.

[mwgrient]

well, congratulations! And happy Debian, because I do not know anything about mplayer (or movies)