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loaded 10.04 on out pc-2 today. works fine so far, but I assume it will need a specific
graphic driver update from Compulab? at high resolution it still flickers.

Hi- I also upgraded to Lucid Lynx (10.04), but for me it is insisting on starting in low-graphics mode. Once I do that everything works but the screen refreshes are painfully slow.

Apparently this is not a fit-pc compatibility problem but rather a GMA500 driver problem. It seems there is as of yet no solution for anyone:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... 45&page=46

Wireless also stops working, solution at this link worked for me

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... omments/21

Thanks for the tip, but this did not work for me. I went to /etc/wireless/rt2860sta/rt2860.dat file and opened it up with gedit and it appears empty. is there a driver I need to load elsewhere?

Some news about this:

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http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/04/26 ... -incoming/

Poulsbo packages for F12, F13 may be incoming

The wonderful Olivier Blin of Mandriva has come through with his patches for making the psb video driver for Poulsbo (GMA 500) chipsets work on newer versions of X.org. He reports success – including 3D – with X server 1.7.

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http://blino.org/blog/mandriva/poulsbo-xserver1.7.html

Enjoy this in Mandriva Cooker, it's already available in our contrib packages!

Other distros, you're welcome in cherry-picking our psb patches.
http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc. ... b/current/

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http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p= ... stcount=33

Re: When will ubuntu Lucid 10.04 support Intel GMA500 "Poulsbo" video hardware?
Xorg PSB patched by Blino and packaged by me (DEB)

Haven't tried it yet.. let me know if ok!

wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/Gma500/ ... o_lucid.sh && sh ./poulsbo_lucid.sh

Last edited by lucazade; 6 Days Ago at 09:24 AM..

https://launchpad.net/~lucazade/+archive/ppa

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/lucazade/ppa/ubuntu lucid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/lucazade/ppa/ubuntu lucid main

Package Version Uploaded by
libdrm-poulsbo 2.3.0-0ubuntu3netbook8 Lucazade (2 hours ago)
libva 0.29-0ubuntu1 Lucazade (2 hours ago)
poulsbo-config 0.1 Lucazade (2 hours ago)
psb-firmware 0.30-0ubuntu1netbook1 Lucazade (2 hours ago)
psb-kernel-source 4.42.0-0ubuntu1~1004um1 Lucazade (2 hours ago)
psb-meta 1.1-0ubuntu1~904um1 Lucazade (2 hours ago)
xpsb-glx 0.18-0ubuntu1netbook1 Lucazade (2 hours ago)
xserver-xorg-video-psb 0.36.0-0ubuntu3~1004um2 Lucazade (2 hours ago)

Thanks, I'm working on rebuilding the kernel for ubuntu 10.04 but this is mainly to make a ubuntu server release for fit-pc2(i)

earthshelterman wrote:Thanks for the tip, but this did not work for me. I went to /etc/wireless/rt2860sta/rt2860.dat file and opened it up with gedit and it appears empty. is there a driver I need to load elsewhere?

I believe it should be empty, the driver just needs to see that it is there- i just rebooted and it suddenly worked.

I am not at my fit-pc now but maybe there is something in the user permissions? I remember that I had to re-enable audio, maybe wireless is not enabled for your user?

axcoco, have you made 10.4 server install image ?

Maruks wrote:axcoco, have you made 10.4 server install image ?

Almost, I've recompile the kernel and made the ubuntu server iso boots from a modified initrd. I just have to set the new kernel image in grub so the new kernel is used at every boots and the hdd is always detected after the installation.

I have made the 10.04 fitpc custom kernel(pata patch) available if anyone want it :