Intel Atom Poulsbo chipset Xorg driver in Debian

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 18:49:13 +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:42:55AM -0700, Kushal Koolwal wrote:
> >
> > It seems that the support for Intel's Poulsbo chipset (Graphics GMA 500) for Atom processor (US15) is sparse [1].
> > So far I have been able to find a driver package in Ubuntu Hardy [2].
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone has ideas as to if Debian will get the support for Poulsbo chipset.
>
> From a brief look at the package in Hardy, the license would be
> considered free, so I suggest you file a Request for Packaging [1] and
> hopefully somebody will take you up on it.
>
The driver depends on a kernel component that is not upstream, and
doesn't look like it will be any time soon. (And the 3d driver is
proprietary, with no prospect of being freed afaik.) So far poulsbo is
a pretty big pile of fail.

Cheers,
Julien


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Thank you, Julien for your insights.
> The driver depends on a kernel component that is not upstream, and
> doesn't look like it will be any time soon. (And the 3d driver is
> proprietary, with no prospect of being freed afaik.)
Can you point out which code of the kernel has not been made upstream yet so that I keep a track of it when it goes into mainline.

Also I tried compiling the source packages from Ubuntu repo (see original mail) but did not have any luck with that. Right now I don't care much about 3D stuff, I just need to get the basic 2D working.

Kushal Koolwal

I do blog at http://blogs.koolwal.net/
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It seems since the last post, some more work got done on the Poulsbo chipset[1] from Ubuntu folks. People have reported to get it working on Fedora 10+ [2] and even Gentoo [3] also using the source Fedora source packages posted by Adam W.

I do understand that with Debian's strict policy this might not be an appropriate package to be included in the repos right now but I was wondering if somebody can throw some pointers on how to get this working on Debian Lenny so that individual users can get their hardware working (GAM 500) using Xorg driver if they choose to do so. For me, right now I don't care about 3D acceleration stuff. All I am looking for is a basic Xorg driver with 2D stuff working.

I am not a DD or a kernel hacker but I would be happy to do some trial and error work in order to get the packages compile and install on Debian Lenny..

Any help would be much appreciated.

[1] http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mobile/ubuntu/pool/main/p/psb-kernel-s...ce/?C=M

[2] http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/05/13/native-poulsbo-gma-500-graphic...river-f

[3] http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/05/13/native-poulsbo-gma-500-graphic...river-f


Kushal Koolwal

I do blog at http://blogs.koolwal.net/



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