Pedro Bulach Gapski writes: > I have been running squeeze on the ao751h (not an eeepc, but holds a > GMA500), and I believe this can be done with some installer black > magic:
Pedro, > 1. latest grub2 from sid includes 915resolution patch for the GMA500. > With this approach we can work at full screen resolution (1366x768 in > my case), as long as grub-pc is used; I don't why, but grub2 is not able to dual boot to windows on my 1101HA. Grub2 just spits an error message 'cannot get C/H/S values'. Dual boot used to work with legacy grub. This is not a major issue, however, because I can live fine without windows. > 2. configure a kernel framebuffer with uvesa (BTW, this gives a > *beautiful* console); Any hints on how to configure that? > 3. drive X with fbdev. Same question. > I believe this is approach is feasible for squeeze and it would solve > a lot of GMA500 problems, and does not involve anything but installer > black magic. I have two problems that I have with Grub2+vesa+GMA500 solution: - Performance. glxgears gives about 200 fps, which is quite low for video and things like googlemaps. - No backlight control. If I want to adjust backlight, I need to do it during bios setup. Also, screen banking does not work using normal screen saver. I have to use 'vbetool dpms on/off' for that, These are not show stopper issues, but surely I would like to be able to utilize all capabilities of the graphics chipset. -- juha _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
