Comments on: New GMA 500 Poulsbo drivers for the Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

By: GREEG

GREEG — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:32:21 +0000

THANKS A LOT!
http://poulsbo-karmic.angelfire.com/
HELPED! FINNALY I CAN WORK ON 1366×768 res!

Youp!
grats ;]

By: Ano

Ano — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:32:50 +0000

Thanks Bazypv,

It works well for my BenQ u121 after I ran auto update and it stuff up the previous working driver. I had to ran: “sudo apt-get purge psb-kernel-source” to get rid of the old driver first though.

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bazypv says:
November 5, 2009 at 3:22 pm
See URL http://poulsbo-karmic.angelfire.com/ for detail :-D.
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By: Carbonel

Carbonel — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:43:40 +0000

Thanks a lot; it works fine on my ACER Aspire 751

JFC

By: Honest Spoony

Honest Spoony — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:51:24 +0000

Above procedure still fails for MSI Wind U110-

compiles okay, says everything completed normally. Rebooted
Screen is still 800×600@61 with no other choices and slow fps.

Glad you Acer guys got it to work… :-(

By: Rafael

Rafael — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:57:08 +0000

I followed the procedure for my Acer Aspire One AO751h and it works fine! Resolution is now at 1366×768 in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala.

By: pmlxuser

pmlxuser — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:22:24 +0000

@ MRiutort says:
January 19, 2010 at 10:42 pm

just do

$sudo apt-get purge psb-kernel-source

Then run poulsbo1 again

By: Jakob Luttrull

Jakob Luttrull — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:26:14 +0000

Go to the ubuntu hardware wiki, you have to re-link to the kernel in order to get it to work again.

By: MRiutort

MRiutort — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:12:03 +0000

Hi:

I run this poulsbo1 setup on my Acer Aspire One 11.6″ without a problem, but after a new Ubuntu 9.10 new kernel update I lost my normal functionality. I found no way to correct the problem. I guess I can run again the poulsbo1 setup, but not works. The system return a incomplete istallation erro code 2 telling me that the /usb/src/psb-kernel-source-4.41.2 is not found.

I am actually running the computer in low screen resolution, which is not exactly low, just 1024 x 768 and not the correct one, but I can not find a way to fix this.

Any help is welcome.

By: Kamal DS

Kamal DS — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:58:36 +0000

Which method did you use? The one i mentioned or the one your given in the comments?

Note: you can still recover from the flashing screen. It’s easy. Just do a google about it

By: fakhri

fakhri — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:54:01 +0000

someone please help me!! I can’t type my password in tttthe terminal help!!

By: John

John — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:37:39 +0000

I hope someone can help a real linux new guy. I installed the drivers on my sony vaio p per the angelfire link instructions.
however, same problem, xserver won’t start and just flashing screen.
Vale said:
Gotscha, works,

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo

If you have a Vaio-P or if you are experiencing extremely slow performance (less than 14 fps running “/usr/bin/xscreensaver/glblur -fps -window”) add “mem=2000mb” to /etc/default/grub, at the end of GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT

glxgears now reports 1400fps instead of 95.

Can someone tell me how to go about doing this? I don’t know how or where to “add ‘mem-2000mb” etc.
Thanks in advance. I really appreciate the help.

By: Stephan

Stephan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:40:20 +0000

I have a Dell Mini 10 netbook with a GMA 500. After doing this I get the ‘flashing screen’.
Changing grub2-settings does not change the situation (I changed the mem to “mem=940mb” because it is a 1G RAM-machine)

Anybody idea what can be fixed here? I tried solution of top blog-text, after that tried the install.sh from the post above…

By: Woolly Mittens

Woolly Mittens — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:26:13 +0000

Thanks bazypv that script did the trick. Awesome!

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:12:06 +0000

Thanks a lot!!!

mine is Acer Aspire one. Thanks bazypv, I followed the suggested link; and YES, my Xubuntu is shining, perfect resolution
… 1366 / 768

Karmic is awesome

Dan

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:43:45 +0000

everything working ok. Thank you all

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:30:28 +0000

I got the flashing screen. Will you give more details about where to put mem=2000mb

By: vale

vale — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:09:00 +0000

Gotscha, works,

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo

glxgears now reports 1400fps instead of 95.

;-)

By: vale

vale — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:52:05 +0000

Did exactly what mentioned on http://poulsbo-karmic.angelfire.com/ on a Vario VGN-P11Z with latest Ubuntu 9.10 default install.
+ sudo apt-get update
+ sudo apt-get upgrade

X-Server does not start, Screen is flashing, any hints?

By: bazypv

bazypv — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:52:33 +0000

See URL http://poulsbo-karmic.angelfire.com/ for detail :-D.

By: Kamal DS

Kamal DS — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:25:45 +0000

Zack, please check the url specified in the wget command

By: zack

zack — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:46:47 +0000

Hello Everyone!
I have Ubuntu Netbook for Acer Aspire 751!
I managed to install it properly, it also really smooth for GMA 500 poulsbo!
I know everyone at issues with it, as far as i am concern it does work properly for me, perfect resolution, and all video works better than under Win Xp…So i’m really happy!

Here is what i did, only works for ubuntu 9.10:
Open your terminal and then copy paste each of this!
DO IT ONE BY ONE, then say yes when they ask for install it without verifying, it’s fine…It works for me so far…

wget http://poulsbo-karmic.angelfire.com/...oulsbo1.tar.gz

tar -zxvf
poulsbo1.tar.gz

cd poulsbo1

sudo ./install.pl

reboot

just type reboot in the terminal, that’s it, enjoy guys

By: LL

LL — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:19:13 +0000

I see your post is from Oct 30. Are you saying to follow your simpler instructions and not use the longer instructions on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo ?

By: mangoo

mangoo — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:18:29 +0000

Too bad psb-modules contains modules for 2.6.31-10-generic; and Ubuntu 9.10 will want to install 2.6.31-14-generic kernel.

I can’t even find 2.6.31-10-generic kernel anymore.

By: Kamal DS

Kamal DS — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:05:19 +0000

Copy and paste them now. The post has been updated with the latest commands

By: Thus0

Thus0 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:17:07 +0000

Could you post your xorg.conf ? I’ve installed the poulsbo driver as you said but I cannot make them work.

Thanks :)

By: daPhyre

daPhyre — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:18:55 +0000

Just 2 things: where you put “sudo apt–get install psb-kernel-source”, the ‘-’ is a wrong one (That’s why deduran had an error, and many more might have it).

Second. I did everything without problems, but my problem has not been solved. Did I missed something? :S

By: deduran

deduran — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:05:11 +0000

Hi, this description is to solve the problem with the GMA 500 into ubuntu? When I try to apply it (I have got a AO751H netbook)
I followed all steps, but this message appears me when I try to install the psb-kernel-source:

manzanito@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt–get install psb-kernel-source
[sudo] password for manzanito:
sudo: apt–get: command not found

I added the two repositories that you indicate. Others installations work fine,
Could you please help me?