HowTo: Install new GMA 500 Drivers (Poulsbo)

[Aevum]

We, GMA 500 users, mostly present on Netbooks, had to use Jaunty drivers, now there's a new way on how to installed the updated (9.10 Karmic Koala, working more than fine on Mint 8 ), by following these simple steps I'm gonna type here:

(Of course, you first need to be connected to the internet)
Open a terminal window and type these following commands, one by one.

wget http://poulsbo-karmic.angelfire.com/fil ... bo1.tar.gz

tar -zxvf poulsbo1.tar.gz

cd poulsbo1

sudo ./install.pl

After you're done (these commands download a .tar package, un-pack it and install what you can find in it) just reboot your PC and you're done.
Simple like that.

Hope someone found it useful
- Max

[Husse]

I found it very useful and made it sticky

[Aevum]

Thanks. GMA 500 is very common on Netbooks, hopefully this guide will save people from googling or hours searching for a solution

[Husse]

There is an ongoing debate in the forum, several rather, about Linux versus Windows so I thought I might add that there are/were problems with Poulsbo in Win as well - don't really know what Intel was thinking....

[Husse]

That file is not there any more - I get a 404
There is an earlier topic in the forum referring to the "official" driver and it's ppa
The method described above is very simple, while using a ppa cannot be considered very simple

[Pilosopong Tasyo]

There is an earlier topic in the forum referring to the "official" driver and it's ppa

a tad off-topic, but i noticed they reviewed mint 8 on that site.

[Aevum]

That file is not there any more - I get a 404
There is an earlier topic in the forum referring to the "official" driver and it's ppa
The method described above is very simple, while using a ppa cannot be considered very simple

Yeah I tried it as well.. actually I still have the compressed package on my PC, I may upload it? I've never done such thing so I may need some hints.

[Aevum]

That file is not there any more - I get a 404
There is an earlier topic in the forum referring to the "official" driver and it's ppa
The method described above is very simple, while using a ppa cannot be considered very simple

Yeah I tried it as well.. actually I still have the compressed package on my PC, I may upload it? I've never done such thing so I may need some hints. (e.g. the site where to upload that on, and stuff like that)

[MarcoB]

Hello Aevum,

I'm trying to install the poulsbo driver with no success.
Tried by downloading the file from the official link but it doesn't work (it asks to remove something first..xserver-xorg I believe and many dependencies)

Maybe your method will work for me

To upload, just use a site such as mediafire.com
you will have the instructions there

After you are done, just post the link here as soon as you can please

By the way, after I install there, what happens with I upgrade the kernel? Won't the driver stop working?
Also how can I update the driver if they release an update?
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EDIT: Successfully installed mine according to this link:

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wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338581/Gma500/scripts/poulsbo.sh && sh ./poulsbo.sh

Great script that fixes mostly everything. Still need to tweak xorg.conf for compositing though.

if you update your kernel, you must run:

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# dpkg-reconfigure psb-kernel-source

[Jeff91]

Just as a heads up - there is a PPA for installing GMA500 drivers on Ubuntu 10.04 (and thusly should work for Mint 9)

http://code.google.com/p/gma500/wiki/PPARepository

I have since sold my netbook with the evil gma500 card in it (f***ing intel, what a joke) so I have not tested this - but it looks like it should work

~Jeff