video driver for Intel GMA

[asher]

Hi there,

I was unable to find any suitable driver for the integrated Intel GMA video in the TC repository. The motherboard in question is DN2800MT (NM10 chipset, integrated GMA video). Neither Xvesa nor Xorg would 'recognize' the video chip.

3D and mpeg accelerations are not needed - just basic 2D support for screen's native resolution. Please, advise!

Thank you in advance.

[Juanito]

Did you try Xorg-7.6 or one of the earlier Xorg extensions?

Is this one of those machines with two graphics systems?

Here's what Xorg-7.6/intel driver says it supports:

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[   107.120] (II) intel: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810,
i810-dc100, i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 854, 852GM/855GM, 865G, 915G,
E7221 (i915), 915GM, 945G, 945GM, 945GME, Pineview GM, Pineview G,
965G, G35, 965Q, 946GZ, 965GM, 965GME/GLE, G33, Q35, Q33, GM45,
4 Series, G45/G43, Q45/Q43, G41, B43, B43, Clarkdale, Arrandale,
Sandybridge Desktop (GT1), Sandybridge Desktop (GT2),
Sandybridge Desktop (GT2+), Sandybridge Mobile (GT1),
Sandybridge Mobile (GT2), Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+),
Sandybridge Server, Ivybridge Mobile (GT1), Ivybridge Mobile (GT2),
Ivybridge Desktop (GT1), Ivybridge Desktop (GT2), Ivybridge Server

[asher]

Juanito: It is a MiniITX MBoard with the Intel Atom N2800 processor. It is a new make to replace the perfectly working old one which had the 945G video chip and I have had no problem running TC with Xorg on it. Unfortunately, the new board has its 'video card' integrated into the CPU itself (!) and I am unable to find the specific model name for the video part even in Intel's technical datasheet. It just says 'GMA' - not a bit of information more.

Neither version of Xorg and no driver available for TC4.x did the trick of recognising the bloody thing 

[Juanito]

Is there any useful in /var/log/Xorg.0.log when Xorg-7.6 fails to start?

Will things work using a renamed /etc/X11/xorg.conf.vesa?

Does googling your machine name + xorg.conf come up with anything?

[bmarkus]

Neither version of Xorg and no driver available for TC4.x did the trick of recognising the bloody thing 

What is about other distros?

[asher]

Sorry for misleading you: X starts (no problem bringing-up Xvesa or Xorg7.5/6) but screen resolution is some safe mode default refreshing veeery slowly and totaly useless for sane purposes!
 
'xrandr --prop' is just listing the 5 default resolutions with no hardware info.
'Xvesa --listmodes' says: "VBE version 3.0 (Intel(R)XX Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA Bios) | DAC is fixed, controller is VGA compatible ... Total memory: 7872 kilobytes ..."

So, I really mean a specific video driver is needed.
Btw. I found the GPU model name: "Graphics Media Accelerator 3650" aka "GMA3650".
A "GMA" drivers extension would be a lifesaver .

bmarkus: haven't tried other distros because this is for a kiosk running from a usb stick where no writes, minimal volume and fast starting are cruicial and...TC is kind of the perfect solution for the job. At least was until the 945G boards became obsolete and impossible to find .

[Juanito]

GMA 3600 on Linux

Since some version 3.3 there is rudimentary experimental support in mainline kernel through CONFIG_DRM_GMA500 and CONFIG_DRM_GMA3600. 2D and 3D acceleration are not yet supported by the FOSS driver. There are proprietary solutions in MeeGo and Yocto that are not easily portable to most other distributions.

 

[curaga]

That is a Poulsbo chip (PowerVR, not Intel) and it's not supported under any Linux. The support under Windows is also very bad.

edit: Those Meego/Yocto references are about a binary driver that hardly works even on those distros.

[Steeler]

Hi,

There are some official version of GMA drivers From Intel:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=21519

Because I'm unlucky owner of d2700 nettop, I'm join to topic starter question and will be thankful if someone make Tinycore package from Intel drivers.

Nik

[aus9]

Juanito and others

I am not a kernel expert.

I run 2 distros, debian sid with a liquorix kernel and TC

the liquorix kernel config suggests it has

# I2C encoder or helper chips
CONFIG_DRM_GMA500=m
CONFIG_DRM_GMA600=y
CONFIG_DRM_GMA3600=y

and also
# Graphics support
CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=m

as per text file
http://liquorix.net/sources/3.5/config.i386

and maybe the kernel package at
http://liquorix.net/debian/pool/main/l/linux-liquorix/

do you think any of this is useful to OP?

[jconnor]

I also have this new DN2800MT board to replace a retired d525 Atom board.  I made a stupid assumption that I could use my same setup as the d525.  Any help getting the proper video driver working would be appreciated.

[curaga]

You pretty much can't get the blob to work.

For the KMS driver, you need a very recent kernel, and it only supports setting the resolution, no 2d accel even.

[jconnor]

Installed Meego on it and it works great.  However, I wish I could use Tiny Core Linux.  Depressed.....

[curaga]

Such is life with proprietary chipsets

The next Atom, Valley View, will have proper Intel graphics instead of rented PowerVR ones.