Posts tagged kernel works
Intel GMA 500 Windows and Linux Drivers
Sep 8th
On Windows Vista and XP drivers are provided directly by Intel. They are available from their website and have been recently upgraded in August of 2009. http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=3001&lang=eng I expect these drivers to be updated and rather soon due to the ranting of many unhappy customers that cannot watch videos with even reason playback quality. I cannot watch 720P videos on my Vaio P even though marketing touts the device as perfect for 720P playback. Linux driver support is even worse. The driver packages are current maintained by the Ubuntu Mobile team. They are available in their ppa repository. https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mobile/+archive/ppa Add the respective lines to your sources.list file and then add the gpg key. Follow directions on the website and then install all psb and poulsbo packages that you find with apt-cache search. I highly recommend locking the 2.6.28-11 kernel that comes with the Ubuntu Jaunty installation iso. the 2.6.28-14 kernel works too, but the next version completely breaks support for the driver. Keeping the 2.6.28-11 kernel will maintain support for the driver even considering package upgrades. Lock the installed kernel by opening the synaptic package manager and editing the preferences for the installed linux-image.
