On Nov 14, 2013 5:05 AM, "valent.turko...@gmail.com" < valent.turko...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Friend of mine just showed me his cheap 13" laptop running Intel D2500 > and first thing he said that he had issue installing linux on it. > > When I asked about GPU and answer was "Intel" I assured him that for > last 10 years I only used Intel GPU based laptops and had great > experience. > > I tried Fedora 19 Live - failed to boot, then Linux Mint 15 - got to > screen but with terrible artifacts on screen, check them out - > http://youtu.be/mha7fZU1xFg, then tried latest Fedora 20 Live Beta 5 - > boot starts with artefacts but fails to boot into desktop. > > Few hours later after reading up on this issue I managed to get laptop > "working" with Linux Mint 15 (updated kernel to 3.11) but had to > blacklist gma500_gfx driver, only then I get somewhat usable laptop > (but with lower resolution and no video acceleration). > > I'm really interested what is the state of gma500_gfx driver in latest > kernel, is it reasonable to expect that this driver will get updated > and have better support or should I just say to my friend to grab > version of Windows 7 and to run with it... any suggestions? > --
I have a box with the same generation of Atom/PowerVR (Cedar Trail? Cedar View? No access at the moment). I can't get *any* display manager to work reliably, but I can `xinit gnome-session` with reasonable results. Once X stops, whether from killing the process or switching targets, the GPU is locked until reboot. I gave the thing to a friend to use as an HTPC, and he gave it back saying he couldn't find Windows drivers for it, and neither could I. I'm using it as a disposable rawhide playground now. If anyone really wants to hack out support for this I'd be happy to ship it to them. --Pete
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