from $ inxi -SGxc 0
Thanks for any help!Graphics: Card Intel Cedarview Integrated Graphics Controller X.Org 1.10.4 Res: 800x600@0.0hz
Thanks for any help!Graphics: Card Intel Cedarview Integrated Graphics Controller X.Org 1.10.4 Res: 800x600@0.0hz
if you want to try Meego it should work. Using Google it looks like it is still a struggle to get anything else to work. Honest to goodness answer - sell it on eBay and get something else.Rodewijn wrote:Hey Stozi,
did it work out for you with xubuntu? I have the same hardware and a lot of problems like you did....
Greetings,
Rodewijn.
Hi Axl, yes you could do that. By using a modeline generator you could create a hand crafted xorg.conf with modeline resolution entries and use a VESA driver. You would end up with the correct resolution, but no acceleration at all. Just paging up and down on a web page would be awful and video would be more like a slide show.äxl wrote:How about a basic XServer configuration?
Modern netbooks are worse than embedded chips from 2007 driven by nouveau, which can show 10-bit H.264 fluently (and can use Gnome 3 and Cinnamon btw)?GregE wrote:Just paging up and down on a web page would be awful and video would be more like a slide show.
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~ $ inxi -Gx
Graphics: Card nVidia C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] X.Org 1.11.4 Res: 1280x960
GLX Renderer Gallium 0.4 on NV4C GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.11.2 Direct Rendering Yes
What hi-tec applications do you run? Please name me some so I understand what you mean.But it would still be a low functioning system that could only run the most basic of desktops and apps.
That bad. Okay, I'm no expert. Just confused.I still suggest that the best solution is eBay or swap with someone who has a netbook without PowerVR.
Meego is being replaced by Tizen, but Tizen is a long way off being released. Meego can run Google Chrome and it is Linux underneath. It is hosted by the Linux Foundation and it should work. Also try Fedora 17, it is supposed to at least work reliably albeit without any 3D or video acceleration..stozi wrote:I only just installed Lubuntu, not sure I'm going to bother with all the trouble. The sad thing is even windows simply doesn't work on this thing, constantly seizes up in the middle of a youtube video, stuck on an annoying chainsaw noise for a few minutes with no way of stopping it. Ugh. Maybe Meego. Isn't that discontinued.
The PowerVR video chipset, in this case a GMA3600, is fine under Windows, it can do H264 and 3D desktop effects. But under Linux there is no driver, so it can only work as standard VGA video from the 1980s. A driver was created for Meego but getting it to work under any other Linux has proved difficult and it is a binary blob. There is an Open Source effort to create a driver called psb_gfx that will give very basic functions to the whole PowerVR family from GMA500 and newer. If you search on Poulsbo and Linux you can read about the whole sad history. Poulsbo is the codename for the GMA500 series of video chips. PowerVR made a driver for Linux, but just once and it was never updated. Very quickly it would not run with newer Xorg versions and kernels. There is also an Intel hosted driver called EMGD that worked long ago, but then got left behind.äxl wrote:Modern netbooks are worse than embedded chips from 2007 driven by nouveau, which can show 10-bit H.264 fluently (and can use Gnome 3 and Cinnamon btw)?GregE wrote:Just paging up and down on a web page would be awful and video would be more like a slide show.
Okay, I'm no expert. Just confused.
stozi, did you try that?GregE wrote:Hi Axl, yes you could do that. By using a modeline generator you could create a hand crafted xorg.conf with modeline resolution entries and use a VESA driver.äxl wrote:How about a basic XServer configuration?
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/FAQVideoModes
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Resolution
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echo 70 | sudo tee /sys/class/backlight/psb-bl/brightness