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Installed ubuntu 12.10 alpha3 and booted without problems. But the unity desktop was pratically useless, long response time and almost impossible to use the keyboard. Installing the LXDE desktop made it usable, but personally I find it too light. Next the XFCE desktop was installed and a few tests d...

It is years ago last time I compiled a debian kernel, but after some searching this is what I ended up with. I choose to use a standard kernel and add Ubuntu patches to compile the 3.5.0-rc1 kernel to .deb packages for Ubuntu 12.04. There may be easier ways to do it, but the compilation has worked w...

Yes, the standard 12.04 comes with the 3.2.0 kernel, but I doubt the the kernel version is going to change, except for the suffix (-24). If you want a later kernel, you probably have to wait for a new Ubuntu version (12.10). It does take 5 -6 hours to compile the kernel on a fit-pc2 with CONCURRENCY...

No, the poulsbo blacklist is left over from previous kernel tests, just to be sure that the stub driver is not loaded.
To get the higher screen resolution you need the 3.5.0-rc1 kernel compiled with the gma500 driver module included.

At long last it appears that the gma500 works with kernel 3.5.0-rc1 and 1920x1080 resolution. I compiled the kernel and removed the video settings from the boot options so it looks like(from /proc): BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-rc1-070612 root=UUID=6f1135f6-76b3-45f8-8bdc-b0c92d868e41 ro poulsbo.b...

Just for information I have tested kernel 3.4.0-rc2 and it also works after compiling with the ubuntu patches and configured to include gma500_gfx. However, the graphic memory is still limited to less than 8 MB. To make better use of my 1920x1080 monitor, I did some tests and ended up with a non-sta...

As mentioned above, the ubuntu mainline kernel 3.3rc3 did not include the gma500_gfx module so I fetched the sources and compiled a new kernel 3.3rc3 including the gma500_gfx module. After adding drm to initramfs, the behavior is as expected: same max. resolution and performance as before. Looks pro...

Hi prj, As you mention that the patch is in the 3.3.x kernel, I installed the 3.3-rc3 (pae) to see what would happen. It does start up in 1600x1200 and vesa mode, slow as molasses. A look in the .config revealed that the gma500 is not included in the configuration. However, xrandr -q now shows more ...

Hi prj, Sounds great that you can patch the gma500 driver for a higher resoulution. I do not have problems with flickering, until now it has been very steady. The monitor menu shows 1680x1050 H: 65 Khz V:60 Hz. My fit-pc2 is rev. 1.21 with bios 24/12/2009. I did look in the changelog for kernel 3.3 ...

Out of curiosity, I tried to install Ubuntu 12.04 rc1 on fit-pc2 following the instructions here: https://wiki.edubuntu.org/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo Alas, the resolution got stuck at 1024x768 and as I have a 1920x1080 lcd monitor it does not look good. Even installing a later kerne...