Thank you for the explanation. Let's hope this will make it to Jaunty then. Vesa works fine, it's just that our company is designing a MID and we're betting a bit on PSB codec acceleration and 3d capabilities (for compiz). We'd really like to sell the device with a sweet eye candy user interface, Ubuntu based. And leverage the HW acceleration of 3d and movie codeds as a good selling point for Linux too.
But, since we will not be releasing the device before April, I hope we can still make it with Jaunty, so there is still hope. One more question - if I would install a 2.6.24 kernel from Hardy in Intrepid, do you think there is a chance of getting the psb kernel driver working with the current xserver-xorg-video-psb? Thanks again, Piotr Loïc Minier wrote: > Hi > > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008, Piotr Kempa wrote: >> Is the poulsbo kernel driver included in the standard (lpia I believe) >> kernel for ubuntu-mid and ubuntu-mobile? > > Unfortunately, not in intrepid; it was in included in the Ubuntu MID > image for hardy, but the poulsbo (psb) drivers weren't ported to the > 2.6.26/.27 kernels. There's close to no hope of getting them in before > intrepid as it would still mean kernel work, libdrm patches which we > don't quite know how to handle without destroying support for the other > drivers, and a xserver-xorg-video-psb update. > > If we get drivers from upstream after the intrepid release, it's > unlikely we will be able to add them to intrepid, so it's not clear > whether these will ever be supported in intrepid. > > We hope the drivers will make it in the jaunty development lifecycle, > or simply in the upstream kernel. > >> I'm trying to boot the ubuntu-mobile testing image but the xorg psb >> driver fails to load the kernel psb driver and complains. Now I believe >> I need both to work, is that true? xorg-psb driver has been around for >> quite some time but I can't find any information about the kernel driver. > > Right, we need to disable xorg's support for psb; the driver's package > is already removed from the dailies. > > What should work though is vesa; failsafe xorg should offer vesa to you > as a fallback. > > Bye, -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
