On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Pete Travis <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Nov 14, 2013 5:05 AM, "valent.turkovic@xxxxxxxxx" > <valent.turkovic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Friend of mine just showed me his cheap 13" laptop running Intel D2500 >> and first thing he said that he had issue installing linux on it. >> >> When I asked about GPU and answer was "Intel" I assured him that for >> last 10 years I only used Intel GPU based laptops and had great >> experience. >> >> I tried Fedora 19 Live - failed to boot, then Linux Mint 15 - got to >> screen but with terrible artifacts on screen, check them out - >> http://youtu.be/mha7fZU1xFg, then tried latest Fedora 20 Live Beta 5 - >> boot starts with artefacts but fails to boot into desktop. >> >> Few hours later after reading up on this issue I managed to get laptop >> "working" with Linux Mint 15 (updated kernel to 3.11) but had to >> blacklist gma500_gfx driver, only then I get somewhat usable laptop >> (but with lower resolution and no video acceleration). >> >> I'm really interested what is the state of gma500_gfx driver in latest >> kernel, is it reasonable to expect that this driver will get updated >> and have better support or should I just say to my friend to grab >> version of Windows 7 and to run with it... any suggestions? >> -- > > I have a box with the same generation of Atom/PowerVR (Cedar Trail? Cedar > View? No access at the moment). I can't get *any* display manager to work > reliably, but I can `xinit gnome-session` with reasonable results. Once X > stops, whether from killing the process or switching targets, the GPU is > locked until reboot. > > I gave the thing to a friend to use as an HTPC, and he gave it back saying > he couldn't find Windows drivers for it, and neither could I. I'm using it > as a disposable rawhide playground now. > > If anyone really wants to hack out support for this I'd be happy to ship it > to them. Just sell it on ebay or something and buy something sane instead. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
