Re: Intel GMA 500 problems on Eee

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On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 17:25 +0000, Chris wrote:
> 2009/10/31 Colin Brace <cb@xxxxxx>:
> > As I mentioned above, the Eee boots the 2.6.29 kernel fine, Gnome comes
> > up... only screen resolution is limited to 800x600 and there is no
> > acceleration.
> 
> Can't help you, sorry, but you might find the wikipedia article interesting:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA#GMA_500
> 
> To quote "Rather than being developed in-house, this core is a PowerVR
> SGX 535 core licensed from Imagination Technologies. Since PowerVR is
> not cooperative with the open source movement, this has resulted in
> the dependence on outdated closed source
>  Linux drivers."
> 
There is a Linux driver for F11 in rpmfusion. It's only partial
opensource with closed bits for 3D support.


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