[Mageia-dev] Mageia 2 Beta 2 is available

Fri Mar 16 11:56:27 CET 2012

On Fri, 16 Mar 2012, Sander Lepik wrote:
+
+> 16.03.2012 03:07, tux99-mga at uridium.org kirjutas:
+> > On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Anne nicolas wrote:
+> >
+> >> Hi there
+> >>
+> >> Beta 2 is available now  for tests. Here is the announcement:
+> >> http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/03/15/mageia-2-beta-2-near-the-goal/
+> >>
+> >> We need your tests and reports more than ever!
+> > Hi Anne, I gave feedback with regards to serious issues when trying
+> > beta 1 on a Cedarview Atom system, but apart from a couple of
+> > isolated replies (thanks to those who did reply) that unfortunately
+> > didn't solve the issues I got no further interest.
+> And the bug number is?
+
+Does your post mean you looked at the info I provided in the previous 
+emails and you concluded that I'm hitting a bug?
+
+As I said before I don't know if I'm hitting a bug or if it's a 
+configuration issue, that's what I was trying to find out here.
+ 
+My main problem is I don't really understand how the GMA3600 needs to be 
+configured, I don't know what this DRM kernel driver that's included in 
+3.3.7rc7 is, is it equivalent to a framebuffer driver, or do I still 
+have to use the generic vesa framebuffer?
+
+Regardless of that, out of the box I'm not getting any picture with this 
+GPU (the screen goes into stand-by once the DRM kernel module is 
+activated at boot).
+
+I did manage to manually configure xorg to use the generic vesa 
+framebuffer but this way I don't seem to get any DRI capability which I 
+thought the GMA3600 DRM kernel module was supposed to provide.
+
+There don't seem to be any docs anywhere with regards to this, neither 
+in the kernel docs nor on the internet, at least I didn't find anything.
+
+As it stands Mageia is unusable on a Cedarview Atom for a normal user, 
+and even I'm quite at loss here as I only managed to get generic vesa 
+xorg working (after a lot of trial and error).
+
+At least with other distros (Centos 6.2 or Fedora 17 alpha) xorg with 
+the generic vesa driver works out of the box (but those distros don't 
+have the latest kernel with the GMA3600 DRM kernel module).
+
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