Driver for US15 Polsbo GMA500 video

[joeham]

I have an atom based system that uses a GMA500 Intel chip set.  I am looking for a video driver for it (other than the vesa driver).  I found that Mandriva 2010 seems to have an RPM for it.  Can it be safely installed on a PCLXDE 2009 system?  Is somebody working on a driver for Pclinuxos?  I know there has been a lot of aggravation about this amongst netbook users but so far I have only seen reports of the successful use of the Mandriva released driver.

[T6]

it is not safe to install packages form mandriva

supposedly intel driver in pcc should work with this video card but i never hars a atom using a gma500, other versions but not this one

what model of netbook/desktop do you have?

afik, the intel video driver is part of kernel or xorg and both are about to be updated in pclinux

[joeham]

It is a single board computer.  It uses the US15 (Poulsbo) chipset and the video controller is part of the north bridge.  I think this chip set is used in some Dell minis but I am not sure.

I made a liveusb of the Xfce version of Mandriva 2010 and it did indeed compile a "psb" driver for the poulsbo video controller.  The Mandriva liveusb is very sluggish, has no persistance (as far as I can tell).  It is also contained in a hidden unknown partition on my usb stick.

I made a LXDE live usb and it was very acceptable with persistance and access to all files.  I just wasn't pleased with the performance of the vesa video driver.

The SBC has 2G of memory and I want to eventually make a system that runs from RAM and uses only solid state storage like an SD card.  I want some means of persisting changes as well.

I guess I will wait and see what shakes out.

[T6]

"It is a single board computer."

interesting, is it using what cpu model?  i said atom but i could be wrong

"I think this chip set is used in some Dell minis but I am not sure."

yes, it is possible but i think it is a new model, never heard about that video card

i found this

http://www.umpcportal.com/2009/02/gma500-support-on-linux-not-quite-there-yet/

february, i must be rusted 

from wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA#GMA_500

the video card is not even intel, it is a modified version of another video processor 

take a look at this part of the wikipedia article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA#Linux

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