Re: What is support status of PowerVR GPUs in Fedora? (Intel D2500 and gma500_gfx)

2013-11-18 Thread Rob Clark
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 09:26:36AM +0100, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: So I have three options to suggest to my friend: - Latest

Re: What is support status of PowerVR GPUs in Fedora? (Intel D2500 and gma500_gfx)

2013-11-18 Thread drago01
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Rob Clark robdcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 09:26:36AM +0100, valent.turko...@gmail.com

Re: What is support status of PowerVR GPUs in Fedora? (Intel D2500 and gma500_gfx)

2013-11-18 Thread Rob Clark
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 4:46 PM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Rob Clark robdcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote:

Re: What is support status of PowerVR GPUs in Fedora? (Intel D2500 and gma500_gfx)

2013-11-18 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2013-11-18 at 22:46 +0100, drago01 wrote: Well in theory gnome-shell should work fine on GLES ... how does it fail? (It is untested but it does not have any direct GL code, it uses cogl which has an GLES2 backend). GLES versus GL is one half of the problem, GLX versus EGL is the

Re: What is support status of PowerVR GPUs in Fedora? (Intel D2500 and gma500_gfx)

2013-11-15 Thread valent.turko...@gmail.com
Thank you all for great feedback, I found these awesome online resources for gma500_gfx - https://gist.github.com/Aissen/2925633 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Poulsbo https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo Author of Github article says that driver were included

Re: What is support status of PowerVR GPUs in Fedora? (Intel D2500 and gma500_gfx)

2013-11-15 Thread valent.turko...@gmail.com
I was totally unaware of Intel using anything else than their own GPU products. Have they backed away from this strategy since then? Are there any other Intel CPU/GPU combinations that we should all stay clear of if we want things to work out of the box and with decent performance? -- devel

Re: What is support status of PowerVR GPUs in Fedora? (Intel D2500 and gma500_gfx)

2013-11-15 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 8:26 AM, valent.turko...@gmail.com valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you all for great feedback, I found these awesome online resources for gma500_gfx - https://gist.github.com/Aissen/2925633 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Poulsbo

Re: What is support status of PowerVR GPUs in Fedora? (Intel D2500 and gma500_gfx)

2013-11-15 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 8:33 AM, valent.turko...@gmail.com valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: I was totally unaware of Intel using anything else than their own GPU products. Have they backed away from this strategy since then? Are there any other Intel CPU/GPU combinations that we should all stay

Re: What is support status of PowerVR GPUs in Fedora? (Intel D2500 and gma500_gfx)

2013-11-15 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 09:26:36AM +0100, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: So I have three options to suggest to my friend: - Latest Fedora or Mint but with Vesa driver only, and maybe can't even get full resolution then - Old Ubuntu (but still supported) + prorietary drivers - full blown

Re: What is support status of PowerVR GPUs in Fedora? (Intel D2500 and gma500_gfx)

2013-11-15 Thread drago01
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 09:26:36AM +0100, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: So I have three options to suggest to my friend: - Latest Fedora or Mint but with Vesa driver only, and maybe can't even get full resolution

Re: What is support status of PowerVR GPUs in Fedora? (Intel D2500 and gma500_gfx)

2013-11-15 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
W dniu 15.11.2013 12:05, drago01 pisze: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: Probably best to get rid of it on eBay and buy a decent laptop. The ARM-based Samsung Chromebook is very cheap and runs Fedora. ARM based? ... that pretty much sounds

Re: What is support status of PowerVR GPUs in Fedora? (Intel D2500 and gma500_gfx)

2013-11-15 Thread drago01
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Marcin Juszkiewicz mjuszkiew...@redhat.com wrote: W dniu 15.11.2013 12:05, drago01 pisze: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: Probably best to get rid of it on eBay and buy a decent laptop. The ARM-based Samsung

Re: What is support status of PowerVR GPUs in Fedora? (Intel D2500 and gma500_gfx)

2013-11-15 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
W dniu 15.11.2013 13:15, drago01 pisze: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Marcin Juszkiewicz mjuszkiew...@redhat.com wrote: W dniu 15.11.2013 12:05, drago01 pisze: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: Probably best to get rid of it on eBay and buy a

Re: What is support status of PowerVR GPUs in Fedora? (Intel D2500 and gma500_gfx)

2013-11-15 Thread Nicolas Chauvet
2013/11/15 valent.turko...@gmail.com valent.turko...@gmail.com Thank you all for great feedback, I found these awesome online resources for gma500_gfx - https://gist.github.com/Aissen/2925633 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Poulsbo

Re: What is support status of PowerVR GPUs in Fedora? (Intel D2500 and gma500_gfx)

2013-11-15 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 09:26:36AM +0100, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: So I have three options to suggest to my friend: - Latest Fedora or Mint but with Vesa driver only, and maybe can't even get full resolution

What is support status of PowerVR GPUs in Fedora? (Intel D2500 and gma500_gfx)

2013-11-14 Thread valent.turko...@gmail.com
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

Re: What is support status of PowerVR GPUs in Fedora? (Intel D2500 and gma500_gfx)

2013-11-14 Thread Florian Weimer
On 11/14/2013 01:05 PM, 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. Have you captured dmesg and lspci -v output? That could help us to identify what precise hardware

Re: What is support status of PowerVR GPUs in Fedora? (Intel D2500 and gma500_gfx)

2013-11-14 Thread valent.turko...@gmail.com
Have you captured dmesg and lspci -v output? That could help us to identify what precise hardware components are involved. Here are all logs I captured: cpuinfo: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=7M7uKBA5 lspci: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=2JFb3EnQ dmesg: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=8pQ5C8wJ

Re: What is support status of PowerVR GPUs in Fedora? (Intel D2500 and gma500_gfx)

2013-11-14 Thread Simone Caronni
On 14 November 2013 16:19, valent.turko...@gmail.com valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: Here are all logs I captured: cpuinfo: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=7M7uKBA5 lspci: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=2JFb3EnQ dmesg: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=8pQ5C8wJ Xorg.0.log.gma500:

Re: What is support status of PowerVR GPUs in Fedora? (Intel D2500 and gma500_gfx)

2013-11-14 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 13:05 +0100, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: What is support status of PowerVR GPUs in Fedora? (Intel D2500 and gma500_gfx)

2013-11-14 Thread Andrew Price
On 14/11/13 15:59, Adam Jackson wrote: On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 13:05 +0100, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: What is support status of PowerVR GPUs in Fedora? (Intel D2500 and gma500_gfx)

2013-11-14 Thread Pete Travis
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

Re: What is support status of PowerVR GPUs in Fedora? (Intel D2500 and gma500_gfx)

2013-11-14 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 10:59 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 13:05 +0100, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: What is support status of PowerVR GPUs in Fedora? (Intel D2500 and gma500_gfx)

2013-11-14 Thread drago01
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Pete Travis li...@petetravis.com wrote: 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.