RE: Intel Atom Poulsbo chipset Xorg driver in Debian

2009-07-05 Thread Kushal Koolwal
It seems since the last post, some more work got done on the Poulsbo chipset[1] from Ubuntu folks. People have reported to get it working on Fedora 10+ [2] and even Gentoo [3] also using the source Fedora source packages posted by Adam W. I do understand that with Debian's strict policy this mi

RE: Intel Atom Poulsbo chipset Xorg driver in Debian

2009-06-18 Thread Kushal Koolwal
Thank you, Julien for your insights. > The driver depends on a kernel component that is not upstream, and > doesn't look like it will be any time soon. (And the 3d driver is > proprietary, with no prospect of being freed afaik.) Can you point out which code of the kernel has not been made upstream

Re: Intel Atom Poulsbo chipset Xorg driver in Debian

2009-06-18 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 18:49:13 +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:42:55AM -0700, Kushal Koolwal wrote: > > > > It seems that the support for Intel's Poulsbo chipset (Graphics GMA 500) > > for Atom processor (US15) is sparse [1]. > > So far I have been able to find a

Re: Intel Atom Poulsbo chipset Xorg driver in Debian

2009-06-17 Thread Daniel Moerner
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:42:55AM -0700, Kushal Koolwal wrote: >> >> It seems that the support for Intel's Poulsbo chipset (Graphics GMA 500) for >> Atom processor (US15) is sparse [1]. >> So far I have been able to find a driver packa

Re: Intel Atom Poulsbo chipset Xorg driver in Debian

2009-06-17 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:42:55AM -0700, Kushal Koolwal wrote: > > It seems that the support for Intel's Poulsbo chipset (Graphics GMA 500) for > Atom processor (US15) is sparse [1]. > So far I have been able to find a driver package in Ubuntu Hardy [2]. > > I was wondering if anyone has ideas

Intel Atom Poulsbo chipset Xorg driver in Debian

2009-06-17 Thread Kushal Koolwal
It seems that the support for Intel's Poulsbo chipset (Graphics GMA 500) for Atom processor (US15) is sparse [1]. So far I have been able to find a driver package in Ubuntu Hardy [2]. I was wondering if anyone has ideas as to if Debian will get the support for Poulsbo chipset. If this is not t