[Mageia-dev] Mageia support for GMA 3600 (Cedar Trail Atom)

Thu Mar 8 03:00:38 CET 2012

On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 tux99-mga at uridium.org wrote:
+
+> 
+> Hi,
+> I just tried Mageia 2 beta 1 on a Intel DN2800MT board hoping that it 
+> would have framebuffer support for the GMA 3600, but the attached 
+> monitor goes into standby (no signal) as soon as the frame buffer gets 
+> activated during boot.
+> 
+> As far as I understand there is frame buffer support in the 3.3 kernel 
+> for the GMA 3600 so in theory it should work.
+> 
+> Are you aware of this issue or should I do a bug report?
+> 
+> Has anyone else tested a GMA 3600 (the GPU that's in all Cedar Trail 
+> Atom cpus) with Mageia so far?
+> 
+> Regards,
+> tux99
+
+Just to add: I have tried all grub opptions (normal, non-fb and 
+failsafe) on each of them the same thing happens. with non-fb I can see 
+the boot process until almost the end, I guess it's the start of the dm 
+that triggers the loss of signal in that case.
+
+I tried editing the grub line adding a "3" at end hopeing to get it to 
+boot to runlevel 3 but that doesn't seem to work as the behaviour 
+doesn't change. Is "3" on the grub line still supposed to work?
+
+I imagine this GMA3600 issue needs solving before the final release as 
+CedarTrail Atoms will be in most Netbooks sold this year, and even 
+though netbooks are less popular then they used to be, they are still 
+selling by the milions especially in Asia.
+
+Let me know what I could do to help debug this.
+
+