On 25/03/2019 09:44, Jonathan Gray wrote:
On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 07:50:30AM +0000, Maurice McCarthy wrote:
On 23/03/2019, Normen Wohner <nor...@wohner.eu> wrote:
I have now successfully installed OpenBSD
on my Netbook, however Graphics performance
is abysmal.
I know that sadly Linux uses binary blobs for
the GMA500 as it is a licensed Powervr chip.
Any idea on how to "maybe" get faster graphics
working?
I'm willing to do the legwork.
I assume you've tried fw_update to attempt from firmware.openbsd.org ?!
As it is not listed in man 4 intel (don't know how up to date that is)
maybe someone is already porting the firmware driver from freebsd.
Otherwise I'd guess you would have to port a linux driver yourself.
Best Wishes
There is a GPLv2 driver in linux.
"experimental 2D KMS framebuffer driver for the Intel GMA500 ('Poulsbo')
and other Intel IMG based graphics devices"
No one is looking at adding support for obscure Intel PowerVR parts from
over ten years ago with no documentation and incomplete and badly
licensed code. Running fw_update won't change that.
You've bought the wrong netbook. GMA500 is a disaster of a chip that
never performed as advertised, even using the Windows driver (which had
a few rewrites by Intel but never satisfied the customer base, you'll
find plenty of griping about it on various forums). Sell it off and get
a model that has a chipset that was actually made by Intel, not
licensed. There's plenty to choose from if you're into 2010 equipment.
That's the legwork you need to achieve I'm afraid.
