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Offline ewanbcn

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How to get the gma500-poulsbo repo driver working
« on: January 28, 2013, 05:49:19 AM »
Downloaded this from the repos but can't get it to work in the normal way.

lsmod only lists the i2c_i801 driver which the above is dependant on.

Cannot get x working with xorg.conf - only get no driver found error

Any ideas most welcome

Offline tinypoodle

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Re: How to get the gma500-poulsbo repo driver working
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2013, 07:13:52 PM »
A forum search for "poulsbo" would bring up quite a few attempts of other users to make this gfx chip work.
You may want to try if Xfbdev and/or Xvesa&915resolution could work for you before Xorg.
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Offline ewanbcn

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Re: How to get the gma500-poulsbo repo driver working
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2013, 04:04:20 AM »
Yeah I realise there were problems  :P
But I didn't see anybody trying this new driver in the repo?
Or am I missing something here

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Re: How to get the gma500-poulsbo repo driver working
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2013, 08:05:56 AM »
You just seem to be the first one of bringing up the specific driver in this forum ;)
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Re: How to get the gma500-poulsbo repo driver working
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2013, 03:10:14 AM »
Ignore my ignorance, but is there a reason why the official intel cdv-gfx-drivers-1.0.3_bee.tar.bz2 drivers cannot be used in tiny?
I really don't want to use meego  :'(

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Re: How to get the gma500-poulsbo repo driver working
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2013, 04:08:00 AM »
Because they are binary drivers only meant for Meego?
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