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

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 driver

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

2009-06-17 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 as to

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 Wiltshiredeb...@jwiltshire.org.uk 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