[Mageia-dev] gma500 display driver problem with Mageia 2 alpha

Sun Jan 8 22:54:37 CET 2012

> Sorry, i don't have a GMA500 aka Poulsbo, but from what i remember investigating
+> for alternatives to this driver (which is prone to breakage due to kernel updates)
+> maybe you want to have a look at
+> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo
+> and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Poulsbo#Kernel.27s_psb-gfx_module
+
+Yes, I have read those pages and both of them confirm that the original
+psb driver that the drakconf try to install as a DKMS module for gma500
+will not work with 3.0 kernel coming with Mageia 2.0 alpha1.
+(compilation of dkms module will fail)
+
+So there would now be need for changing the drakconf to use by default
+some other driver. The easiest candidate would propably be now the
+psb_gfx module that comes already as a module in mageia 3.0 kernels.
+
+I think I am already using this new "psb_gfx" driver as I selected the
+fbdev driver in the drakconf. (Instead of selecting the default driver
+suggested that would have installed the psb dkms module and failed).
+
+This psb_gfx driver works for me, but at the moment I only have 800x600
+resolution instead of the 1280x720.
+
+Mika
+
+