Got a few updates. On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 01:16:11AM +0900, Mattia Dongili wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:43:44PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > > Hi Mattia, > > > > On Montag, 11. Januar 2010, Mattia Dongili wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 04:23:31PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > ... > > > > The only way I could get the graphic card to work with performance is > > > > with the even less free iegd driver from intel, so this is what I will > > > > be > > > > using in the > > > This is quite interesting actually. If nothing else because *maybe* this > > > other driver works better than psb on my laptop.
I could get iegd_mod to build on 2.6.32 and X even starts up and works. A couple of issues: - the brightness is halved on starting X and I can't find any way to increase/decrease it. - I can't seem to get any configuration option to work, how lovely is the Inf format... - the X driver (iegd_drv) doesn't work with xserver 1.7 and there's no chance to patch it, we have to wait for Intel to release a new version. ... > > according to > > http://building.jolicloud.com/2009/11/17/the-quest-for-implementing-support-for-the-gma500-chipset/ > > > > the libdrm problems have been fixed (there too), havent looked at those > > sources yet, though. > > Cool, I quickly skim over the article and some of my points above are > actually addressed. I'll have a better look at it tomorrow. Not sure I got their point but it seems that the only additional work they did was to rename all the psb drm kernel symbols to allow keeping the upstream kernel drm module _and_ the one shipped with the psb package. I can't see this as a particularly useful feature. I tried porting psb_drv to xserver 1.7 and I got some success but the 3D libraries (the binary ones) require a pile of old symbols not provided anymore by the server. For some reason the psb driver is not very happy without the 3D libraries, I haven't figured out why but I didn't spend much time there. All in all a big failure. I only hope that the iegd driver (that is the only one showing some activity) will be updated and released with the full sources soon. sigh... -- mattia :wq!
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