On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Ben Armstrong <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:34:49 +0300 > [email protected] (Juha Heinanen) wrote: >> 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. > > I agree. This is hardly what I'd call 'support'. But unfortunately, > we seem to be at the mercy of Intel. I was talking on irc to #debian-x > and it was suggested there that we should complain to Intel about the > state of free drivers for GMA500. In the past, they've been very > supportive and provided free drivers to the point where Intel became > the recommended "just works" option. With GMA500, there has been a > turnaround. I think they need to know we are unhappy.
I agree that current status is far from ideal. But maybe we can do both: act on the political side to improve mid-term situation, and do our best with our current tools to support this hw as well as we can. As I have one of those beasts, I have no other option ;-) Pedro _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
