I'll try compiz again to see what's wrong with it. I'll check for compiz config and hope it will not hang gdm like in the past. It is also a good idea to not start compiz at GDM time, just for debugging purposes. What I'd like to know is if it makes sense in fiddling with anything to make it work.

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If OpenGL 1.3 is **REALLY** required (but I cannot find any source that confirms that), it's of no use even looking at it to fix it. I think 'compiz --replace&' in a terminal should do the trick, it's been over a year however that I played with compiz. It is also a good idea to not start compiz at GDM time, just for debugging purposes. What I'd like to know is if it makes sense in fiddling with anything to make it work. If OpenGL 1.3 is **REALLY** required (but I cannot find any source that confirms that), it's of no use even looking at it to fix it. I think 'compiz --replace&' in a terminal should do the trick, it's been over a year however that I played with compiz.

-Yves Tried compiz, removed a lot of its plugins, but i still get that warning about opengl 1.3 and X segfault. I've started compiz from terminal and not at gdm time.

I don't know if opengl 1.3 is really blocking or is something inside drivers. I'll attach xorg.log with the segfault, a compiz --debug log and a *temporary* poulsbo-config (w/o compiz dependency. Hmm, the probable fix from this is as follow. Check how much RAM you have in your laptop.

Edit the file /etc/default/grub and change the line: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT='quiet splash' if you have 1GB of RAM into: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT='quiet splash mem=1000' if you have 2GB of RAM into: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT='quiet splash mem=2000' afterwards run: sudo update-grub I tried this without success. I tried many different mem values, but same result. By the way, if I don't include 'mb' after the amount of memory the system doesn't boot. GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT='quiet splash mem=2000mb' Any other possible solution?

Try to update bios if possible. Try also this repo (for ubuntu karmic (it contains intel iegd drivers instead of poulsbo). Could you paste the output of: lspci -nn grep VGA There are no bios updates, just the 1.0 that comes preinstalled.

Pico820@pico820-desktop:~$ lspci -nn grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) Graphics Controller [8086:8108] (rev 07) I tried the repo for the fit-PC2 and it seems to improve the performance! The system startsup normally, without errors. Now I get ten times the fps than with the vesa driver: pico820@pico820-desktop:~$ glxgears 2119 frames in 5.0 seconds 2232 frames in 5.0 seconds 2221 frames in 5.0 seconds 1919 frames in 5.0 seconds 2184 frames in 5.0 seconds 2176 frames in 5.0 seconds But my PS3eye camera is no more recognized, and the screen shows odd proportions (even with the monitor's autoadjust). A logitech quickcam works. I guess it's the custom fit-PC2 kernel. Same problem.

Maybe its a mismatch between DVI, VGA and LVDS LCD Anyway, does this mean that the right driver for this hardware is the intel iegd and not the poulsbo??? VGA has got the same unique identifier (8086:8108 ) as mine (acer751h) and also same revision but it doesn't work with psb, only iegd. It is strange. Could be also related to the motherboard or the bios. I'm just wondering! Iegd might support some new release of gma500, psb is really old piece of software:) You're probably right, the resolution problem is related to DVI, VGA and LVDS LCD options.

Try to find IEGD documentation for other xorg options/settings. (IEGD are anyway outdated. In the next days we'll probably have EMGD compatible with xorg 1.7). Dasankir, I just had a similar problem after I built our driver for karmic. If you still have the Lucid install, can you check if adding 'blacklist drm' to /etc/modprobe.d/poulsbo.conf and rebooting fixes your problems with the psb driver? Sorry I never tried the Lucid install, only the karmic one. I've just seen an interesting article about Compiling kernel IEGD 10.x module for any Linux distribution (It mentions: Notes for users of old psb-modules or psb-kernel-source Ubuntu package Older psb-modules and psb-kernel-source Ubuntu packages install their own incompatible drm.ko module at /lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates/char/drm.

I've also seen a PPA for IEGD by Thomas Pietrowski (https://launchpad.net/~thopiekar/+archive/lucid-dev). I have seen a lot of mplayer-vaapi talk earlier, and have installed it without issue. My question is about the gstreamer patch (has anyone gotten this running?

When I run configure it tells me my ffmpeg headers are not supported, but the mplayer page (says 'VA API support to FFmpeg and MPlayer' Will this fix video chat in empathy? Is there a handy install script? Thanks so much for making this laptop usable!

Does anyone know why the instructions for getting gma500 working on Karmic don't work now? I ran the instructions, restarted and it didn't work. I ran dpkg-reconfigure psb-kernel-source (from recovery mode) and it said it didn't have the source. So I installed the source: sudo apt-get install psb-kernel-source and restarted back into recovery mode and ran the command again and upon restarting its still not working.

I'm not sure what I need to do to get this to work. Thanks for all the help guys, you're doing awesome work. Russki_drewski AO 751h 2gb RAM, 250gb HD. I am using the gma500/fix packages (as of today: June 24, 2010) on an up-to-date lucid, and almost everything works fine (OpenGL, VAAPI). My problem is that I want to use my FitPC2 icw Poulsbo to play full HD material onto my tv.

My tv handles a resolution of 1920*1080 (confirmed with another pc), but the xserver detects a maximum resolution of 1360x1360. The psb kernel driver seems to detect a 1920x1080 capability; I do not know if that is the card limitation or screen? See dmesg output below. Update Manager suggested I install updated psb packages, and so I hastily did. It broke native resolution (AAO 751) and video performance is awful, as usual when the psb drivers are broken. Tried to remove and purge psb but got this: udi@udi-netbook:~$ sudo apt-get purge psb-kernel-sourceReading package lists. Done Building dependency tree Reading state information.

Done Package psb-kernel-source is not installed, so not removed The following packages will be REMOVED: psb-kernel-headers 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed.

After this operation, 348kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y (Reading database.

270546 files and directories currently installed.) Removing psb-kernel-headers. No diversion `any diversion of /usr/include/drm/drm_hashtab.h', none removed rm: cannot remove `/usr/include/drm-linux-libc': Is a directory dpkg: error processing psb-kernel-headers (--remove): subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: psb-kernel-headers E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) udi@udi-netbook:~$ What's wrong, how do get psb back on? Udibuntu, what are you running, Lucid or Karmic?

And where did you get psb-kernel-headers, I think we don't have that package on our ppa. Karmic, sorry. I guess the headers came from the update manager install of the psb (resulting in error, btw). Do you know about the UM version of the psb driver?

Cheers JBernardo, Udi Update - tried autoremove, got error. Udi@udi-netbook:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove Reading package lists. Done Building dependency tree Reading state information. Done The following packages will be REMOVED: autotools-dev libltdl-dev libtool psb-kernel-headers 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 14 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 2,875kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

Y (Reading database. 270648 files and directories currently installed.) Removing psb-kernel-headers. No diversion `any diversion of /usr/include/drm/drm_hashtab.h', none removed rm: cannot remove `/usr/include/drm-linux-libc': Is a directory dpkg: error processing psb-kernel-headers (--remove): subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Removing libtool. Removing autotools-dev. Removing libltdl-dev.

Processing triggers for man-db. Errors were encountered while processing: psb-kernel-headers E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) udi@udi-netbook:~$. I have seen a lot of mplayer-vaapi talk earlier, and have installed it without issue. My question is about the gstreamer patch (has anyone gotten this running? When I run configure it tells me my ffmpeg headers are not supported, but the mplayer page (says 'VA API support to FFmpeg and MPlayer' Ok I have it installed and working from the command line:p Install latest ffmpeg I used this link (be sure to include --enable-vaapi when compiling ffmpeg Install gstreamer-vaapi (./configure make sudo checkinstall --default sudo ldconfig delete the file ~/.gstreamer-0.10/registry.i486.bin run in terminal 'gst-inspect-0.10 vaapisink' play a movie with 'gst-launch-0.10 -v filesrc location=/home/justin/Videos/nova.mp4! Vaapisink fullscreen=false' It works very well, but I can't enter vaapisink into gstreamer-properties.

It gives the error can't link ffmpegcsp to vaapisink. If this can get working will vaapi work with all gstreamer programs? In particular my case, empathy.(or banshee, elisa, gnash, istanbul, Kaffeine, pitivi, songbird, or totem aka movie player) Thanks again. Dear all, on my asus 1101ha I installed lucid and the gma500/fix drivers. Most of the things seem to work fine, i.e. 3D seems to work properly, mplayer with vaapi acceleration works as expected. There are still one major and one minor issue that I'd like to get rid of, in order to reach the working 'level' that I had with karmic.

*) (kde 4.5 beta2) windows borders are oddly displayed. When I maximize the window everything is fine, but with smaller windows the title border just displays fuzzy things, like what was on the background before giving the focus to the window (minor issue). *) I can suspend to ram, but when I resume, either the computer doens't resume properly (black/purple screen ->hard reset) or X (kdm, indeed) is restarted, killing the previous session. (major issue). Anyone has managed to get rid of those issues? Especially for the suspend / resume thing, shall I go back to the normal ppa (non fix) version?

Do you think this could solve the resume issue? I do care more of the resume than 3D/vaapi, so.;-) Thanks in advance, fiamazo. Udibuntu: 'sudo apt-get purge psb-kernel-source', accept it will remove everything psb related, then reinstall psb-driver-3d and psb-driver-2d. Unfortunately, updating psb-kernel-source breaks, and I've been unable to fix it yet.

Udi@udi-netbook:~$ sudo apt-get purge psb-kernel-source [sudo] password for udi: Reading package lists. Done Building dependency tree Reading state information. Done Package psb-kernel-source is not installed, so not removed 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Udi@udi-netbook:~$ Reinstalling yielded messages saying psb is already the newest version. Psb driver does not work. So, no vaapi might mean you don't have 3d acceleration on.

Do you still have the 'ShadowFB' entry in /etc/X11/xorg.conf? As for psb packages waiting to be updated, first try 'sudo aptitude safe-update'. If after that you still have packages needing update, try 'sudo aptitude dist-upgrade' and be very careful not to break anything. How can I see the conf file? Just to make sure I get this right: when update manager says there are psb related packages to download, I decline, close the um and then open terminal and do what you said, right? There should be a patch out that fixes the driver for unpatched xorg.

I'm still working on a better implementation that theoretically should have speed improvements altough I haven't seen any and I currently lack the time to investigate possible causes. My current exa_mixed implementation works just fine, except that it doesn't add anything speed-wise, and I risk that the work I'm doing will be thrown away once MeeGo comes out with their implementation. Maybe jbernardo can incorporate that patch allready in the poulsbo drivers? It could even be done using a xorg.conf switch so users can easily switch from the older behaviour to the new one.

@yves When is MeeGo coming out with their own implementation for GMA500? Also what do you mean by implementation? Of what, the patch to fix xorg? I'm just curious to know more about this.

I saw a link about MeeGo a while back on this thread, but I didn't see any mention about the GMA500 or a date on any sort of update. The work you guys have been doing is pretty awesome. It just amazes me that Intel has neglected this for so long, and its even more amazing how you guys have picked up the slack and made a decent workable driver. You guys rock! @yves When is MeeGo coming out with their own implementation for GMA500?

Also what do you mean by implementation? Of what, the patch to fix xorg? I'm just curious to know more about this. I saw a link about MeeGo a while back on this thread, but I didn't see any mention about the GMA500 or a date on any sort of update. The work you guys have been doing is pretty awesome. It just amazes me that Intel has neglected this for so long, and its even more amazing how you guys have picked up the slack and made a decent workable driver. You guys rock!

Russki_drewski Well this latest development shifts the EXA-implementation from exa_classic to exa_mixed since there is a bug in exa_classic of xorg 1.7. Our first idea was to fix the bug in xorg itself (that's why there is a patched xorg in our ppa/fixed), but it's better to use exa_mixed since the xorg guys suggested doing that, for a couple of reasons (stability and speed). Nevertheless xorg has accepted the patch and is incorporated in latest 1.8 and 1.9, but not in 1.7. I'm actually hoping MeeGo comes with a driver with OpenGL 1.3 (or better) and hopefully some accelerated operations since current driver doesn't accelerate too much, it's all SSE2 code on the CPU, except for OpenGL itself, VA-API and YUV to RGB for XV. Since they can do the last, I wonder why it can't blit using GMA500, that would be a huge performance booster.

Could somebody help me out withh this one? I tried the ppa/fix drivers but no matter what video playback app I use I keep getting a black frame instead of the movie whenn ShadowFB is set to 'false'. X Could somebody help me out withh this one? I tried the ppa/fix drivers but no matter what video playback app I use I keep getting a black frame instead of the movie whenn ShadowFB is set to 'false'. First time poster here, but I'm very active on the maemo forums and busy making videos about the N900. I've got the Nokia Booklet 3G yesterday and installed Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Remix. Of course it didn't supported the correct display resolution.

So I installed the Beta Paulsbo drivers as suggested here in the Wiki (The problem is now, that the window manager won't load completely but start load, then the screen flashes white an black, start load again and so on, a loop. I've installed Ubuntu again and want to try the drivers with only 2D support. Is that a good idea, or is there a workaround to get the 3D/hardware accelerated driver working?

The work around lies in the xorg.conf i had the asme problem of looping. Edited the xorg.conf used some posted configuration in the same thread. Maybe you could just send me your xorg.conf?;) That would be awesome! But I will search this thread, too. Edit: Read on from page 122. Just found this post: It's not for the Nokia Booklet 3G but I assume I have to change the variable of ShadowFB to 'false' in my xorg.conf before I install the Beta drivers, correct? Here's mine if that helps you: Section 'DRI' Mode 0666 EndSection Section 'Extensions' Option 'Composite' 'Enable' Option 'RENDER' 'Enable' EndSection Section 'Device' Identifier 'GMA500' Option 'MigrationHeuristic' 'greedy' Option 'AccelMethod' 'UXA' Driver 'psb' EndSection Section 'ServerFlags' Option 'AIGLX' 'true' EndSection However UXA doesn't make a difference as Lucazade mentioned somewhere, however I used it 'as is' since it works fine.

Hello everybody, althought I've never posted on this thread, I have been following it since almost the begining, or, as soon as I realized the 'mistake' I commited buying my Asus 1101HA. What do you mean with no new drivers? Are you refering to us, Ubuntu users? Or is it useless for Moblin and the other distros mentioned in the release notes? I'm tired of struggling to get the best of my netbook running linux, but I will not surrender to Windows. I'm glad to know that people like Lucazade, not forgetting everyone else, have the knowledge and will to make possible for us to still have hope to use our netbooks as we planned when we bought them. Greetings from Protugal and thanks to everyone.

Here's mine if that helps you: Section 'DRI' Mode 0666 EndSection Section 'Extensions' Option 'Composite' 'Enable' Option 'RENDER' 'Enable' EndSection Section 'Device' Identifier 'GMA500' Option 'MigrationHeuristic' 'greedy' Option 'AccelMethod' 'UXA' Driver 'psb' EndSection Section 'ServerFlags' Option 'AIGLX' 'true' EndSectionHowever UXA doesn't make a difference as Lucazade mentioned somewhere, however I used it 'as is' since it works fine. I've tried that (is it okay to just make a xorg.conf using vi in the cl?). Now I can type in my login credentials (but have checked to automagically login) if some seconds before I click the mous as crazy.

After that it will loop back to the login screen. The display resolution is perfect, though. I can still login via XTerminal, so I can just change the xorg.conf again, if I would know where the problem is. Any suggestions? And what about this driver? Now the moblin project is merged to meego. When will they release this?

Thats from last November and we haven't heard a peep about it since. It was suposed to be Gallium3D based and have HD video playback and probably cure cancer to boot.

I'm guessing there are some licensing issues at work preventing it's release. Either that or it's performance was massively over-hyped (or just plain faked) and it's result is the crappy IEGD still with binary blob drivers we got a few months back. Since then someone said they talked to a bunch of developers (From Intel, Tungsten and PowerVR from memory, all of which supposedly worked on the chipset) at some Linux conference about GMA500 (I think it was this thread a while back, cfbed looking all the way through) and got told a variety of of responses along the line of 'where just contractors and have nothing to do with it', 'where looking at it', 'working on 'something', none of them mentioned that stuff in the video (which was already posted at that time), or gave any tangible answers.

In any case the first alpha release of MeeGo came around with nothing and then it's 1.0 release, also with nothing. All we have seen are progressively worse binary blob driver releases. With that said, the exact same problem is with GMA650 and Intel are pushing their MeeGo platform so I would still hope to see them fixing the situation. But my worry is that the crap they are turning out is the 'fix' as far as there concerned, and there happy with the chipset provided it just about works on their partners specific platforms and is closed. We have yet to hear anything tangible from Intel on the subject (other that them blaming 3rd parties). I actually had an email conversation with the Martin Mohring who was demonstrating the 'new Poulsbo' drivers back in november that prompted the Phoronix.com article. The conversation was very painful.

First he said that he had a working open source kernel module available via meego repository. This was true. If you look at the kernel source in meego, it has a moorestown/poulsbo kernel driver. Then I proceeded to ask about the remaining parts that would be needed for a working solution (i.e. Closed source parts, and xorg driver.) I continued to press him for into, but I did not hear back for over a month.

Then he said that he has no intention or direction to publish any other parts of the driver. He says that is Intel and PowerVR's job. So I asked why he demo'ed a driver in November claiming to have a working solution to come out soon, and he said, he never said that. That was Phoronix.com that said that. Similar to what H3g3m0n mentions, 'I am just a contractor/developer'.

So I think the Linux Foundation was working to update the kernel module, but it is up to Intel to develop the rest. Which is not going as the article in November stated. But if you look at what is going on in meego, they are developing an xorg emgd driver which is really just the iegd driver parts for poulsbo/moorestown. So I am expecting some kind of release for that which will work with the latest kernel and xserver, but not sure how it will be maintained going forward. According to the bugs tracker for meego there should be some release in July. I have found rpm in meego repository that contain binaries for all parts.

I am hoping I can see if they work this weekend, but I would prefer to compile as much as possible my self. Hi guys, Sorry for the absence, but some times real life gets in the way. I just pushed Yves de Muyter exa_mixed patch, and xserver-xorg-video-psb is rebuilding in the gma500 ppa. When that is done, you can get 3D without installing a patched xorg. Unfortunately everything else is still broken - suspend, xv, etc. If you're going from the fix ppa, do a ppa-purge, then re-add the gma500 ppa. Thanks a lot to jbernardo and Yves.

Everything works ok (except xv and suspend) using unpatched xorg and latest updates. (poulsbo-config in gma500 ppa still set shadowfb to true.no more needed):D. Trying to get this working on my O2 joggler with 10.04, but when I run startx it gives the following error: Fatal server error: xf86MapVidMem: Could not mmap framebuffer (0x1f9dd010,0x800000) (Resource temporarily unavailable) I've read this can be solved by changing the kernel memory parameters (to leave extra free shared memory?). I've limited the kernel to 250MB and it still doesn't work. (joggler only has 512MB RAM) Any ideas? Just reinstalled the drivers and I am still getting a similar error (now running with full 512MB) Fatal server error: xf86MapVidMem: Could not mmap framebuffer (0x1f9dd010,0x800000) (Operation not permitted) Operation not permitted vs resource temporarily unavailable. Anyone else working on an O2 joggler?

So it doesn't kill X in a nokia booklet? I wonder what it is different about the hardware or the configuration in comparison with my 1101HA. Jose, I think the suspend problem must be in the dri kernel module. When I do the suspend/resume, xorg crashes in pixman render code. From time to time it does work, and is a difficult one to tackle (my machine simply locks up.) Also there seems to be a bug in switching to console, it crashes xorg from time to time too, no idea yet if these things are related.

As Yves wrote, it works from time to time, and having the sdcard inserted doesn't seem to change anything. But I'll try. I just wish I had time to start working on the kernel module, since at least that one is available in the meego repositories, as a huge patch. I managed to advance a bit a few weeks back, but I haven't converted it to a dkms module yet. Jose, What does that driver add to our current kernel driver? I've not seen it yet, but I'm always worried we wouldn't get our OpenGL binary blob working on that. It looks like the best xorg.conf settings and whitelist instructions for Karmic were removed from the wiki.

Does anyone know if the settings are automatically added when installing from the gma500 ppa or should the wiki be changed to show these settings? Can anyone post what the xorg.conf should be for karmic?

I can update the wiki to include this as the karmic install instructions don't fully work since xorg.conf isn't populated. Hi guys, Sorry for the absence, but some times real life gets in the way.

I just pushed Yves de Muyter exa_mixed patch, and xserver-xorg-video-psb is rebuilding in the gma500 ppa. When that is done, you can get 3D without installing a patched xorg. Unfortunately everything else is still broken - suspend, xv, etc. If you're going from the fix ppa, do a ppa-purge, then re-add the gma500 ppa. Thanks for your support. I've installed 10.04 Netbook edition completely again and added the 3D drivers from the WiKi again, but I get the same bug. I can see the desktop for a short time, but when the window manager is starting the Booklet gets into a loop, starting the window manager over and over again.

What am I doing wrong? What is _this_ (Perhaps psb driver now depends on pvr drivers in order to minimize amount of code? And i can't find drm patches to try build kernel for this blob, maybe i missed something? You probably already know this, but in the description it says: psb-video User space driver for psb User space driver for video decode pvr-bin Binary graphics driver and libraries from PowerVR PowerVR graphics driver and runtime library. Jose, What does that driver add to our current kernel driver? I've not seen it yet, but I'm always worried we wouldn't get our OpenGL binary blob working on that. -Yves That is a possibility.

As soon as I have some time I'll try to build a kernel with that module, just to check compatibility with the current blob. My aim with getting the meego kernel driver to build is twofold - check if indeed the suspend problem is related to the module, and use it as a first step to porting the meego final driver (hoping it isn't the awful PowerVR binary blob including OpenGL libs that just surfaced). That is a possibility. As soon as I have some time I'll try to build a kernel with that module, just to check compatibility with the current blob.

My aim with getting the meego kernel driver to build is twofold - check if indeed the suspend problem is related to the module, and use it as a first step to porting the meego final driver (hoping it isn't the awful PowerVR binary blob including OpenGL libs that just surfaced). Apparently that blob is totally unrelated to EMGD: http://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2205#c30. Thanks for your support. I've installed 10.04 Netbook edition completely again and added the 3D drivers from the WiKi again, but I get the same bug.

I can see the desktop for a short time, but when the window manager is starting the Booklet gets into a loop, starting the window manager over and over again. What am I doing wrong? Hi, I had the same problem. I installed Lucid (not netbook edition) on eeepc 1101HA, then drivers from fix repositories folowing wiki instructions. On startup I got the same loop as you describing. I fix it by editing xorg.conf file like in this script (didn't execute the script, just used the xorg.conf edit): wget But it seems that 3D and HW video acc doesn't work:(. Hello, I'm a new forum user.

I installed Ubuntu 10. Free Download Video Song Humko Tumse Pyar Hai there. 04 32bits on a fit PC2 (Atom Z530 + Poulsbo), and then followed instructions at For more info on fit PC2: After the reboot, the screen is black or flickers. Booting ubuntu in recovery mode + failsafe xorg doesn't work. I can access the box via ssh, and I can see that there is no X running. Hi, I had the same problem.

I installed Lucid (not netbook edition) on eeepc 1101HA, then drivers from fix repositories folowing wiki instructions. On startup I got the same loop as you describing. I fix it by editing xorg.conf file like in this script (didn't execute the script, just used the xorg.conf edit): wget it seems that 3D and HW video acc doesn't work:( Thank you so much! At least it is working now in native resolution. I installed the netbook edition, because I read somewhere that it uses less resources.

The normal gnome UI is installed, too, if you don't like the netbook UI. I can confirm, that the normal mode isn't working, just the 2D mode. At least the resolution is now fine, no more Win7;) Any suggestions how to enable 3D and HW acceleration?

Some posts ago there were at least two users with Nokia Booklet 3Gs. What is your working configuration? Sorry for doble post.

Despite of being now in native resolution and being fairly usable some things still are bugging me. When I try to install compiz via synaptic it wants to uninstall the poulsbo drivers. Videos from my Nokia N900 (800x480 mp4) are not running fluently. Has anyone achieved to get Ubuntu 10.04 running with 3D and HW acceleration on their Nokia Booklet 3G? I like the design of 10.04 so much, but if it's not running very well I think I'm forced to try 9.10.

Jarodrig and ollifl, you both seem to have it running perfectly, what is your secret? Thank you so much for all your help, this is what I like so much about the linux community! Sorry for doble post. Despite of being now in native resolution and being fairly usable some things still are bugging me. When I try to install compiz via synaptic it wants to uninstall the poulsbo drivers. Videos from my Nokia N900 (800x480 mp4) are not running fluently. Has anyone achieved to get Ubuntu 10.04 running with 3D and HW acceleration on their Nokia Booklet 3G?

I like the design of 10.04 so much, but if it's not running very well I think I'm forced to try 9.10. Jarodrig and ollifl, you both seem to have it running perfectly, what is your secret? Thank you so much for all your help, this is what I like so much about the linux community! 2D and 3D are working w/o problems.just follow instructions in the wiki: Install drivers on a clean Ubuntu installation or at least remove anything poulsbo related (packages,xorg.conf.) as suggested some post ago. 2D and 3D are working w/o problems.just follow instructions in the wiki: Install drivers on a clean Ubuntu installation or at least remove anything poulsbo related (packages,xorg.conf.) as suggested some post ago. Sorry for doble post. Despite of being now in native resolution and being fairly usable some things still are bugging me.

When I try to install compiz via synaptic it wants to uninstall the poulsbo drivers. Videos from my Nokia N900 (800x480 mp4) are not running fluently.

Has anyone achieved to get Ubuntu 10.04 running with 3D and HW acceleration on their Nokia Booklet 3G? I like the design of 10.04 so much, but if it's not running very well I think I'm forced to try 9.10. Jarodrig and ollifl, you both seem to have it running perfectly, what is your secret? Thank you so much for all your help, this is what I like so much about the linux community! At now i'm working with karmic, but I didn't do anything special to get work that card. I only followed instruction. Jarodrig and ollifl, you both seem to have it running perfectly, what is your secret?

It's not all perfect but I manage to get by, I got a black screen again about a week ago with new kernel update, had to un-install it and go back to the older one., I usually don't do upgrades that hastily anymore but somehow that one slipped. Just follow the instructions and all should be good on Nokia except I haven't gotten video running smoothly on mine, I know there's a fix for it but haven't bothered to play with it, I rather stream everything into my tv and be done with it. I'm waiting for the day I can totally get rid of W but until we get sync working with Nokia phones I still need it. As far as waking up from sleep and all that other stuff, I'm not worried since it only takes 35-45 seconds for full boot up in Lucid compared to Windows 20 seconds from sleep and a full cigarette for a full boot.

I was using SSD for awhile in Lucid but dedicated it fully to windows since without it using windows makes me a chain smoker. All and all I think the good qualities outweight the bad qualities when using Lucid, the system is stable and extremely fast, if you don't need all the 'bling' and effects while using it it's a good system. Honestly, I think the guys (you know who you are) deserve a lot more respect and appreciation than we can give them by simply saying 'thank you, I'll buy you a beer when I see You', but since that's the only thing we can do, here's to you.

'Beer is on me if I ever happen to meet you'. 2D and 3D are working w/o problems.just follow instructions in the wiki: Install drivers on a clean Ubuntu installation or at least remove anything poulsbo related (packages,xorg.conf.) as suggested some post ago. These instructions (are the same as the 2D ones described in the wiki (I thought someone does have 3D inclusive compiz working. On my main PC I'm using DockbarX so I need compiz for the program-previews. I think that is not possible? Unfortunately, for now compiz is broken - and until we get a whole new driver from Intel it will remain broken. Compiz apparently needs openGL 1.3, and this binary blob that is the base of this driver only supplies openGL 1.2.

Okay, thanks. Let's hope Intel gets that sorted with it's supplier. What is the maximum we can achieve? I've seen on youtube someone who got HD video playback in ubuntu on the Booklet 3G working.

I assume this is only possible in Ubuntu 9.10? What needs to be done so that would work in Ubuntu 10.04, too? (since I like the UI so much;)) How can I help? Unfortunately, for now compiz is broken - and until we get a whole new driver from Intel it will remain broken. Compiz apparently needs openGL 1.3, and this binary blob that is the base of this driver only supplies openGL 1.2. I want to correct something.

Our OpenGL says it is version 2.0 (but is really OpenGL ES 2.0). We lack an extension named 'GL_EXT_texture_from_pixmap' to make compiz work. It is something essential (to take a pixmap from your desktop and throw it into OpenGL so compiz can play with it) and without that, no Compiz. They used to have a workaround that is slow and hackish and in the current version they threw that feature out. I want to correct something. Our OpenGL says it is version 2.0 (but is really OpenGL ES 2.0). Digital Circuits And Design By Salivahanan Ebook Free Download on this page.

We lack an extension named 'GL_EXT_texture_from_pixmap' to make compiz work. It is something essential (to take a pixmap from your desktop and throw it into OpenGL so compiz can play with it) and without that, no Compiz.

They used to have a workaround that is slow and hackish and in the current version they threw that feature out. -Yves And I assume only Intel or their supplier can give us this extension?

Regarding 3D HW acceleration: Is extreme TuxRacer working for you fluently in fullscreen? This was my test to check if the 3D is working;). To obtain GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap we need>=GLX1.3. But at least old drivers with indirect rendering(LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=yes) has working compiz, because script checks required extensions and set this flag if they not avaible with direct rendering. GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap must be supported on server and client side of X-server, so glxinfo grep GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap -c 2 but LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=yes glxinfo grep GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap -c 3 and compiz is working, but ubuntu 10.04 doesn't have that script, maybe if we type LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=yes compiz --replace & or compiz --indirect-rendering --replace &it will work on ubuntu 10.04?) Sorry fo my english -_. @Amyako Treid but no luck. Guys, where is the most concise and updated how to?

I'm lost in this thread. Installed Lucid, ran the ppa commands, got 2D and native resolution (Acer 751). However, Firefox scrolling is choppy, Youtube Flash videos flutter, vlc and media player do not show video, and I can't find a simple install guide to mplayer vaapi. Is this the best I can hope for at this stage?

As said above, the driver is broken, so that all of the symptoms you've mentioned are to be expected. You can get video playback by building mplayer-vaapi. -->link to script.

I had some problems getting vaapi working: The mplayer from the repo complains about a missing libva-x11-0.31.0.6.so.1. I have libva-x11-0.31.1.1.so.1 installed.

I had to link libva-x11-0.31.1.1.so.1 to libva-x11-0.31.0.6.so.1 and also do the same for libva-glx and libva but it now seems to be working. However adding -va vaapi sometimes causes lots of stuttery glitchy blocks in video playback (although it's mostly working, I think it might be a double buffering issue or something since they seem to be delayed video of every 2nd frame). Other times -va works fine and allows for 720p videos to be played smoothly, although it has some trouble on videos with lots of stuff happening. VLC from repo was complaining that it doesn't have decoder for mp4v (The accelerator box in VLC is checked). This doesn't happen on normal VLC (just shows black). It now works ok (maybe it was the libva linking? Or perhapse because I uninstalled and reinstalled everything) Totem also started complaining that it didn't have a xvid decoder.

I have the ubuntu-restrited-extras package installed, totem doesn't ask without the nvidiarepo installed, but it of course just shows black. This also start working now (not the video playback thats still black, but it's just not asking about codecs). The mplayer-vaapi.txt script works, but some of the videos are just garbled. I haven't gotten around to trying the settings other than -vo and -va yet, or the GMA500_WORKAROUND env flag. I didn't try without the -va EDIT: vlc only seems to work with x11 as the video output:/. Hi, I have eeepc 1101HA, Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid. I installed poulsbo drivers from gma500/fix repositories.

I've got loop on X/gdm start. I've fixed it with xorg.conf edit like as in the script Loop was fixed, but when I installed mplayer-vaapi using and try to play movie the X hang and I needed to hard restart. I find out, that it was because of the Option 'ShadowFB' 'true' in xorg.conf. =>It means that the Option 'Composite' 'Enable' fixes the loop on start up (It was second of only two changes in xorg.conf I did against the original xorg.conf after installation of poulsbo drivers). So I have finally got vaapi to work (by removing the ShadowFB option from xorg.conf). But now I had another problem. I'm experiencing lags in video.

Similar lags I can also found when playing audio with audacious (not trying another player) since I install Lucid. I didn't have lags on Karmic. Now if I found these lags when I'm using mplayer vaapi, it will be maybe something bigger touching all the media playback. Do or did you have anyone lags in media playback too. Do you have someone any idea what's going on? Thanks to all who will help (or will try to).

And Big thanks to all who have done a part of work on that all. Thank you guys. I had some problems getting vaapi working: The mplayer from the repo complains about a missing libva-x11-0.31.0.6.so.1. I have libva-x11-0.31.1.1.so.1 installed. I had to link libva-x11-0.31.1.1.so.1 to libva-x11-0.31.0.6.so.1 and also do the same for libva-glx and libva but it now seems to be working. However adding -va vaapi sometimes causes lots of stuttery glitchy blocks in video playback (although it's mostly working, I think it might be a double buffering issue or something since they seem to be delayed video of every 2nd frame).

Other times -va works fine and allows for 720p videos to be played smoothly, although it has some trouble on videos with lots of stuff happening. VLC from repo was complaining that it doesn't have decoder for mp4v (The accelerator box in VLC is checked). This doesn't happen on normal VLC (just shows black). It now works ok (maybe it was the libva linking? Or perhapse because I uninstalled and reinstalled everything) Totem also started complaining that it didn't have a xvid decoder. I have the ubuntu-restrited-extras package installed, totem doesn't ask without the nvidiarepo installed, but it of course just shows black.

This also start working now (not the video playback thats still black, but it's just not asking about codecs). The mplayer-vaapi.txt script works, but some of the videos are just garbled. I haven't gotten around to trying the settings other than -vo and -va yet, or the GMA500_WORKAROUND env flag.

I didn't try without the -va EDIT: vlc only seems to work with x11 as the video output:/ I also have your problems Totem doesn't work (says that xvid codec or divx codec version 5 are not installed). VLC 1.1 says that it can't read mp4v files and there's no way to solve the problem. Mplayer (installed with kanotix script) shows white screen. Anyone have a solution? I also have your problems Totem doesn't work (says that xvid codec or divx codec version 5 are not installed).

VLC 1.1 says that it can't read mp4v files and there's no way to solve the problem. Mplayer (installed with kanotix script) shows white screen. Anyone have a solution? Did you try linking the libs? Sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libva-x11-0.31.1.1.so.1.0.3 /usr/lib/libva-x11-0.31.0.6.so.1 sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libva-glx-0.31.1.1.so.1.0.3 /usr/lib/libva-glx-0.31.0.6.so.1 sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libva-0.31.1.1.so.1.0.3 /usr/lib/libva-0.31.0.6.so.1 Otherwise uninstall everything mplayer, mplayer-gui, mplayer-nogui, mplayer-skins related, vlc, vlc-nox vlc-data, vlc-plugin-*. Then do a: sudo ppa-purge ppa:nvidia-vdpau/cutting-edge-multimedia Then re-add the repo, update, upgrade and install vlc and mplayer.

You might also need to set vlc's output to x11 (although this isn't related the the mp4v error). Totem won't ever work afaik unless XV is fixed or someone rigs gstreamer-vaapi support. It will just stop complaining about missing codecs, and display black instead. There is no need to play anymore with xorg.conf options (like composite or shadowfb) I don't have any lags during video playback.

I'm able to watch a 720p without any glitches using mplayer with vaapi backend. Ok, you're right.

I comment also composite option in my xorg.conf and now I can start system normally. But then I don't understand why I got the loop on startup after installation of poulsbu drivers from ppa, then I edit xorg.conf which fixed the loop problem and now when I comment these edited options in xorg.conf (so now with xorg.conf like after installation) I don't have loop anymore.

Anyway this is not my problem now. I'm happy that it is fixed now (although I don't know how). My problem is that any media playback is choppy. I don't know where is problem. I have installed - poulsbo drivers from gma500A/ppa - vaapi using script - smplayer, audacious (for audio) And Mplayer log saying: Your system is too SLOW to play this!:mad: Thanks. I've made a customized livecd of Ubuntu 10.04 with Intel GMA500 support out of the box! Are you passing the '-va vaapi -vo vaapi' options to mplayer?

Do you have the 'export GMA500_WORKAROUND=yes' line in your ~/.bashrc? Thanks for tips. I'm using smplayer.

In options I have video output vaapi and in 'options for mplayer' -va vaapi. Also when I use 'mplayer -vo vaapi -va vaapi./video.avi' it is the same. But I'm experiencing lags in audio playback too, when I'm listening to some music (in audacious). I used command 'echo 'export GMA500_WORKAROUND=yes' tee -a ~/.bashrc'. I have checked the file now and it is there. Any other suggestions, please?

I'm desperate from it. I can't watch or listen to anything:(. Did you try linking the libs? Sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libva-x11-0.31.1.1.so.1.0.3 /usr/lib/libva-x11-0.31.0.6.so.1 sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libva-glx-0.31.1.1.so.1.0.3 /usr/lib/libva-glx-0.31.0.6.so.1 sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libva-0.31.1.1.so.1.0.3 /usr/lib/libva-0.31.0.6.so.1 Ok, adding these and setting X11 as the video output, vlc shows me the video, but in a wrong resolution (too close and flat on the left). Mplayer and totem as before. I have an eeePC 1101HA and I'm trying with a.avi files (not HD). Thank you for your response.

I've done a customized Lucid livecd with poulsbo support out-of-the-box:) * gma500 drivers installed (gma500 ppa repo) - 2D support (native resolution and hw rendering) - 3D support (openGL, Composite but no compiz) * mplayer with vaapi backend enabled - video playback HD it's a first try, it works well on my Acer 751h. I need some feedback! Any suggestion where to upload the iso image (683Mb)?

Any freehost? (a link will appear here when uploaded) Luca do it via torrent, so others can seed it, too. Or rapidshare;) how can I check if my 3D is working?

I've extreme supertux installed and it works but very choppy on my Booklet 3G. A tip how you can just double-click your video instead of writing every time the line in the command line. Right click on your video 2.

Open with another application (I'm translating from German, sorry if translation is not very accurate) 3. Click the plus next to 'use user-defined command' 4. Type in (without quotations): 'mplayer -vo vaapi -va vaapi%F' 5. Click on open and close the starting video again. To make that the standard player right click on file ->properties 7. Click on the tab 'open with' 8. Check the checkbox next to mplayer (not MPlayer Media Player) have fun!

Smplayer is not working for me, but HD videos are with mplayer, so everything is good:D. I've done a customized Lucid livecd with poulsbo support out-of-the-box:) * gma500 drivers installed (gma500 ppa repo) - 2D support (native resolution and hw rendering) - 3D support (openGL, Composite but no compiz) * mplayer with vaapi backend enabled - video playback HD it's a first try, it works well on my Acer 751h. I need some feedback! Any suggestion where to upload the iso image (683Mb)? Any freehost? (a link will appear here when uploaded) Luca Well, I'm naming my next child 'Luca' in your honor:)) Looking forward to using this GMA50o specific distro; God I hate the GMA500.

Is this 'normal' ubuntu or netbook remix? Normal Ubuntu with GNOME (if needed and if it works well) i can do the same with Kubuntu or UNR and as someone else said, release it as a torrent. I know i'll be happy to seed for ages.

I'm currently uploading the iso to megaupload (rapidshare has a file size limit of 500mb if not registered). In a couple of hours i'll provide a link i believe is better to make a torrent when we're sure it works well and it is bug free. I've tested only on acer, we should see how it works on others gma500 netbooks. After using the script I can now play hardware accelerated videos on my 751h with mplayer.

Thanks:) I did find some glitches though. If xcompmgr is running, updating windows behind the video window can cause severe flickering, and the video window can't be put behind other windows. Soft subtitles are a problem. Some (such as vobsubs) are corrupt in windowed mode but not in fullscreen and other types are the opposite. They can also have positioning problems. Some videos crash with signal 11 in 'filter video' when the first subtitle appears. Other than that, it works well:D.

Just wanted to inform everyone, that I've reinstalled Ubuntu on my Booklet 3G, but this time without the Windows 7 partition, because it works so well. The only things I'm missing a little bit: - video-chat (I'm sure this can be enabled) - multitouch at the touchpad (I know this can be enabled, but I'm unsure if I should try it because the touchpad is so responsive and in windows with the synaptics driver it is not) - compiz (not because of the 3D effects but because of the miniature window-previews) - GPS although I've never used it in Windows the short time I have the Booklet Thanks everyone who helped me! Now it's time for me to give it back to the community;). Lucid Lynx with GMA500 support ready to test: Ok, i've tried your 'distro';) I have an 1101HA pc. Everything works except the Fn keys.

To enable them: sudo gedit /etc/default/grub and then replace the line: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT='quiet splash' with this: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT='quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor' then: sudo update-grub reboot! I have a question: mplayer worrks. How can I play video in fullscreen? I've installed smplayer but doesn't work. What can i do? Hi Luca I have an Asus 91MT and installed your distro.Resolution is fine, at the beginning of the installation. But I still can't play any movie: mplayer doesn't even launch, and with vlc I have sound but just a black screen.

Did I forget something? Another question: can this notebook play 720p movies? Or is it too slow?

Thanks for your work! Fab from France Edit: Have installed mplayer-dbg, the player is launched but still don't play movie. Use mplayer either via command line or just set it up like I wrote in this tutorial for simple double click to start playing movie: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9587681&postcount=1413. Ok you're great! Mplayer works, avi or mkv.video and audio, you're the best:-) Thanks to zehjotkah too, the tip is working very well.but there's still a weird thing: I don't have any controls (I just noticed that arrows can play forward or backward, space for pause and esc for quit) and I didn't succeed to play the movie fullscreen (even with%F), I mean without any bar, just the movie on the screen. Is it possible to have it fullscreen? But thanks a lot again!

Fab mplayer doesn't have controls. You might want to try gmplayer instead.

Full screen should work by just pressing 'f'. My os: Ubunt 9.10 kernel:2.61.31-14-generric video chipset: SCH Poulso (rev07) X server: 1.6.4 I have to try these step,but the psb driver can not work. Ciao Luca, ho provato il tuo live cd su un sony Vaio X (VPCX11) facendo eseguire il boot dalla chiavetta usb, dopo la schermata viola con la barra del caricamento di Ubuntu, il tutto si blocca su una schermata nera, con un trattino in alto a sinistra. Non appare nessuna finestra per avviare l'installazione. Puoi aiutarmi? Grazie mille Prankster_mk in english please! You got a blank screen booting the livecd on a sony Vaio X (VPCX11).

I don't have this netbook but if i remember well you have to pass an option to grub when starting the livecd. When you see the first purple screen press ESC F6 - Other options add this to the end of kernel entry: mem=2000mb ctrl-x to start livecd let us know if this fix your issue so i'm able to add it to our workaround list! Hi, i'm one of those who tested the 10.04 ubuntu provided by lucazade. My system is a eeepc 1201ha. The gma 500 accelerator was supported from the beginning.

First impression is good, external monitor is working also. Problems are the fullscreen mode in normal video with vlc, bad scrolling of web pages in opera with scroll wheel (try to fix it today, though the weather is very sunny) and OSD (this one i fixed with the: -->sudo gedit /etc/default/grub -->GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT='quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor' -->sudo update-grub -->reboot Best of all is a good wireless connection, nearly 2 times more than in Linux Mint 8 (Helena, but don't know why) Thanks a lot to lucazade regards Phoenixx81. I've done a customized live cd of Ubuntu 10.04 with Intel GMA500 support out of the box!

Features: * gma500 drivers (ppa repository (- 2D support (native resolution and hw rendering) - 3D support (openGL, Composite) * mplayer with vaapi backend (original script (- video playback (also HD) Dowload from Torrent (or Megaupload (Tested on: Acer 751h, Asus 1101HA, Asus 1201HA, Asus 91MT, Sony Vaio VPCX11 and VGN-P688E (*) Luca! Truly, you're my personal god!:p Right now I'm testing you're live system on my Dell Mini 12 (netbook-troublemaker, as you know). Everything works fine as you described it (things that don't work are as you mentioned, as well). There's just one thing you probably forgot to mention (or I just missed that in a thread): to make suspend work on a 'fresh' system, you need not only to uninstall vbetool, but also to have uswsusp installed (otherwise your command s2ram won't work).:D Best to all!

Sorry but composite is working too? I missed maybe something but I knew that composite was problematic. What is therefore the actual situation for: 1) Composite enabling 2) Bad scrolling in browsers 3) Suspension enabling 4) Yuotube videos 1) composite works w/o problems 2) firefox scroll is choppy, chrome scroll instead is *good* 3) suspend by workaround (here it works. Please test and give feedback about this on different netbooks) 4) Flash is the same from Jaunty-Hardy-Intrepid. Youtube html5 is a little better. PPA repository is obviously still valid (the iso image is based on this ppa) If you are good at installing Ubuntu and configure gma500 by your own. You can still do it!

Otherwise use the livecd. Btw there is no need to remove 3d drivers, you won't see improvements. OK, so let's make it absolutely clear!:D If I install 'regular' Ubuntu and configure it using gma500/ppa repo, I'll get the system with VLC and Totem working, without all that 3D graphics stuff forcing me to use MPlayer I hate. Or did I get sth wrong and there's no more gma500/fix repo?

No time for updating. But you have time to build a LiveCD image? I don't have time to read pages of updates per day and then be told to download an image, transfer it to a bootable thumbstick, and then drain battery constantly just so I can run a LiveUSB that won't have everything I want installed or customized when I can simply add a PPA and be happy. If the wiki isn't right, mark it as such but don't make excuses. I appreciate everything you guys have done but that's just being lazy to not update documentation and instead do something fancy. OK, for those, who - apart from or instead of MPlayer - want to use VLC, there is a way, based on Cutting Edge Repositories and H3g3m0n's developments.

I've just checked it on my Dell Mini 12 - works pretty fine. It goes as follows: 1) Add repo from Cutting Edge and update: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nvidia-vdpau/cutting-edge-multimedia && sudo apt-get update2) Install VLC and its dependencies (remember to have Ubuntu unverse repos turned on): sudo apt-get install vlc3) Resolve the problems with libva: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libva-x11-0.31.1.1.so.1.0.3 /usr/lib/libva-x11-0.31.0.6.so.1 sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libva-glx-0.31.1.1.so.1.0.3 /usr/lib/libva-glx-0.31.0.6.so.1 sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libva-0.31.1.1.so.1.0.3 /usr/lib/libva-0.31.0.6.so.14) Set in VLC's preferences video output to x11. Good luck!;). But you have time to build a LiveCD image?

I don't have time to read pages of updates per day and then be told to download an image, transfer it to a bootable thumbstick, and then drain battery constantly just so I can run a LiveUSB that won't have everything I want installed or customized when I can simply add a PPA and be happy. If the wiki isn't right, mark it as such but don't make excuses. I appreciate everything you guys have done but that's just being lazy to not update documentation and instead do something fancy. My native language is not english. So it's difficult for me to mantain wiki pages in other language = no time.

Edit: I don't like this rants, try to contribute in a positive way or don't add these polemics. You know who to ask for official drivers and documentation, this is a community effort. I've the time to do what i like, this should not interest you. But you have time to build a LiveCD image? I don't have time to read pages of updates per day and then be told to download an image, transfer it to a bootable thumbstick, and then drain battery constantly just so I can run a LiveUSB that won't have everything I want installed or customized when I can simply add a PPA and be happy. If the wiki isn't right, mark it as such but don't make excuses.

I appreciate everything you guys have done but that's just being lazy to not update documentation and instead do something fancy. The wiki page is community maintained. Perhaps you should maintain it. I have a small problem I'm hoping you guys can help fix. I initially had the 2d drivers installed and I was waiting for the beta 3d drivers to be sorted out (when they were in the fix ppa/repo?), but then they were merged and there was a new config file pushed over the ppa via System Update.

After this happened, Thunderbird doesn't display correctly for me. See the pic attached. I think this has to do with compositing or something, but I'm not the expert here. Do I need to change an option in my xorg.conf to fix this?

Right now my xorg.conf is pretty barebones. Any pointers on what to do? I really like Thunderbird as a mail client.

I am so thrilled with how well my netbook is working now! BTW, The suspend work around works great for me! (I'm super buzzed about that. I've never had it reliably working since I got this netbook.) xorg.conf: Section 'DRI' Mode0666 EndSection Section 'Device' Identifier'Configured Video Device' Driver'psb' EndSection.

Thunderbird doesn't display correctly for me. Thunderbird is broken here too, didn't notice this issue before. Thanks for reporting I've tried thunderibrd 3.1 from mozilla site and seems to solve this graphical artifacts.

(There is also a ppa. Try this and see if it helps. Don't know which is the real issue.

I'll investigate. @drzorcz added your Vlc howto to livecd post.

[QUOTE=lucazade;9596318]Prankster_mk in english please! You got a blank screen booting the livecd on a sony Vaio X (VPCX11). I don't have this netbook but if i remember well you have to pass an option to grub when starting the livecd.

When you see the first purple screen press ESC F6 - Other options add this to the end of kernel entry: mem=2000mb ctrl-x to start livecd let us know if this fix your issue so i'm able to add it to our workaround list![/QUOTE Hi Luca, I apologize for my Italian. I'll try you fix as soon as I can! I got a warning? A quick search of all of my posts will show that almost EVERY SINGLE ONE is offering help or a workaround. Who cares about your old posts? But when I comment to say that someone who is trying to help out users is going about it in the wrong way, I get told that I should do it. And how are you helping us?

Saying you don't have time to read? Should we read for you? I feel like the Ubuntu community is becoming the Gentoo politics from 4 years ago all over again. I feel this is another useless post by you. I feel this is another useless post by you. Actually it makes perfect sense. Way back then there was an issue between developers and users.

Well here you are as a developer and me as a user. What the developer has now told me is that everything the developer has done up to this point is now obsoleted by use of a LiveCD. LiveCDs are for testing out new things without effecting your environment, running a readonly style terminal or MythTV like setup, or installs. That's not how I run my system and I'm sure that majority of Ubuntu users are not running off LiveCD's most of the day. Why would I start now? Look, I'm not trying to put down the work you guys have done getting this driver going, but as a user I am frustrated that a developer has now turned their back on their prior work to play with something new. Actually it makes perfect sense.

Way back then there was an issue between developers and users. Well here you are as a developer and me as a user. What the developer has now told me is that everything the developer has done up to this point is now obsoleted by use of a LiveCD. LiveCDs are for testing out new things without effecting your environment, running a readonly style terminal or MythTV like setup, or installs. That's not how I run my system and I'm sure that majority of Ubuntu users are not running off LiveCD's most of the day. Why would I start now? Look, I'm not trying to put down the work you guys have done getting this driver going, but as a user I am frustrated that a developer has now turned their back on their prior work to play with something new.

No, I'm not a developer. I'm a user like you in this contest. Developers are inside Intel (speaking about poulsbo) Livecd was intended to help people who still have old release of Ubuntu and don't want to upgrade to lucid because of the driver bugs, to help who have installed drivers via script or old repositories and have a compromised system (or difficult to help them out) A way to test the same stuff included in the repositories, the same workaround and fixes found in this thread. (50 downloads on bittorent in a few days) I never said 'everything the developer has done up to this point is now obsoleted by use of a LiveCD'. I'll continue fighting for a decent driver. Thunderbird is broken here too, didn't notice this issue before.

Thanks for reporting I've tried thunderibrd 3.1 from mozilla site and seems to solve this graphical artifacts. (There is also a ppa. Try this and see if it helps. Don't know which is the real issue.

I'll investigate. @drzorcz added your Vlc howto to livecd post. Thanks I added that ppa and updated thunderbird to the latest version, but it doesn't seem to have helped. Did you figure out what exactly was causing the problem?

@Legoman666 I tried the PPA for Thunderbird and I can confirm that it doesn't work. It seems likes its the latest beta version or something like that. However, I did also try going straight to Mozilla and I downloaded it direct. I extracted the file and I found a shell script 'thunderbird' that lets me run Thunderbird direct from that location. It actually recognized the settings and accounts that I had set up in the version that is natively installed. This version works great! The only problem is I don't know how to take that folder I extracted and replace the version that is natively installed.:( Running it directly from the folder is a workaround, but its not the most graceful solution.

Does anyone know a better way to fix this? Speaking of making workarounds into fixes, can someone check this thread (out. This is another workaround I would like to make into a more graceful fix, which would be pretty cool to incorporate into the liveCD too. (IMHO) Thanks for all the hard work guys! I'm super appreciative/grateful/happy for the awesome progress on a project that initially seemed impossible.

BTW, I have no problem with making a new thread. This one is getting pretty cumbersome. @Legoman666 I tried the PPA for Thunderbird and I can confirm that it doesn't work. It seems likes its the latest beta version or something like that. However, I did also try going straight to Mozilla and I downloaded it direct. I extracted the file and I found a shell script 'thunderbird' that lets me run Thunderbird direct from that location. It actually recognized the settings and accounts that I had set up in the version that is natively installed.

This version works great! The only problem is I don't know how to take that folder I extracted and replace the version that is natively installed.:( Running it directly from the folder is a workaround, but its not the most graceful solution. Does anyone know a better way to fix this? Thunderbird 3.1 PPA.

This should help: Speaking of making workarounds into fixes, can someone check this thread (out. This is another workaround I would like to make into a more graceful fix, which would be pretty cool to incorporate into the liveCD too. (IMHO) Thanks for all the hard work guys! I'm super appreciative/grateful/happy for the awesome progress on a project that initially seemed impossible. BTW, I have no problem with making a new thread. This one is getting pretty cumbersome. I'll try to incorporate all these workaround and fixes in a second release of livecd.

Even if some fixes are netbook related (for example some work on acer but no on asus). I've posted also the script i used to customize the livecd image, any help is welcome to improve it.:). Try this workaround for Vaio: sudo nano /etc/default/grub modify line like the following: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT='quiet splash mem=1500mb' sudo update-grub reboot If this doesn't solve i think you're using some old drivers/configuration. So try installing everything from scratch or use my livecd. I added GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT='quiet splash mem=2000mb acpi_osi=Linux' from the wiki but wasnt sure if this was right considering it only has 2gb ram this doesnt leave any for the graphics right?

Or have i got that understanding wrong haha. I will try with 1500mb. News about the GMA500 driver on Meego!! If you haven't listened to the Linux Action Show, here's the link to the latest episode and the update about Intel, The GMA500 and Meego. Intel have bitten their own backside!!! I just hope they do something about it, as they're releasing more and more devices with the GMA500. I've found this article with a website where you can download the EMGD driver on http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODQxOA.