Adam Jackson wrote: > On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 21:34 -0500, Josh Adams wrote: >> I recently bought a new Dell Inspiron Mini 12 with the hope of putting >> Linux on it as soon as I got it, only to discover that there doesn't >> seem to be support the GMA 500 chipset that it uses. While I can trim >> a lot of the fat off of Vista to get it in a semi-usable state, I'd >> much rather be running Arch or Fedora on it. Anyways, I realize now >> that this is a new chipset and I was having trouble finding any >> information about this chipset with linux after much googling, so I >> figured it would be best to go straight to the source. > > The GMA500 is not really an Intel chip, it's a PowerVR core glued onto > one. Fairly sure it's not the same thing as the 'vermilion' driver > we've got, but hard to say without PCI IDs. Sensible open source > support is rumored to be forthcoming though.
Did anything change with respect to GMA 500 support since this message was posted (the beginning of December 2008)? I too wanted to buy this netbook (Dell mini 12), it comes with Ubunutu (8.04?), so probably I will want to either upgrade the distro to a newer version or change it. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
