Sneaky Peek into the next release: EMGD
By Christian Lorandi on Wednesday, October 6 2010, 15:43 - Preview - Permalink
Intel released a new driver compatible with GMA500 (a.k.a. poulsbo, psb) called EMGD, i tried it for you (and for me :-D)
PixieLive-1.1alpha + kernel gentoo-sources-2.6.33-r2 + xorg-server-1.8.2 + EMGD
it run quite well, really smooth on 2D but 3D applications (glxgears) freeze the system after some seconds (mouse cursor is still moving around, but the system doesn't respond)
so... gotta find a solution...
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Thanks dude! Really looking forward for that implementation of the EMGD driver. If you need any beta tester to try it I would be very glad to help you.
One more thing would it be possible that you implement the drivers for the Broadcom b43?
@MrTide:
Nice, new EMGD version 1.5 just came out a couple of days ago. Hope it works much better than the 1.0 that was release in June/July. :)
@Pixel:
EMGD-1.5 WORKS GOOD!!!
no more freeze on 3D, working on TuxOnIce now...
TuxOnIce report:
- Resuming from hibernation, lzo compression: 16 sec (from the boot-loader blue screen to gnome fully working), not bad at all
- Resuming from hibernation on swap partition DON'T NEED to set the resume=/swap/partition in the bootloader, IT'S FOUND AUTOMATICALLY
- Suspend to file is working (you don't need a swap partition, you can use a swapfile but NOT on the pendrive, it must be on the disk or it will crash during hibernation because the USB is powered off before complete hibernation, may be this can be solved with some kernel options)
- You can SUSPEND to BOTH (RAM and disk at the same time) (like MacOSX) (if your battery is enough you will have a 2 sec boot, if it run out, you will have a boot
like from hibernation, no data loss if you run out of battery when in sleep mode)
that's pretty nice imhoGreat job. I think i will give pixie second chance if the drivers will work decent.
@Christian
Can't wait to try the new EMGD drivers!
I hope they fixed all the performance problems we had ...
I would like to second the motion to include a broadcom 43 driver, with it Pixie will be about perfect for me!
@MrTIde & PhatFriar:
b43 should be already compiled as module, try to
modprobe b43
manually as root, if it doesn't work reboot and post your
lspci -n
and
lsmod
on http://pastebin.com so i can understand which kind of hardware you have