How to use Intel GMA3600 onboard graphics in Lucid 5.2.8?

[mikeslr]

Hi tempestuous,

First, on behalf of myself and all other Puppyites who lack the skill and dedication it takes to compile applications, please accept our thanks for your interest and efforts. You are one of a handful of unsung heroes without which Puppy would have vanished along with many other "small" distros.

As I tend to be "all over the place", if and when you've compiled uvesafb and/or fbdev applications for Tahrpup or Slacko, please call them to my attention by email. I'll be more than happy to run tests on my Acer.

Thanks again,


mikesLr

[tempestuous]

Well I just packaged the fbdev driver for Tahrpup 6 and Slacko 6beta, but in the process I learned that the fbdev driver should be no better than the modesetting driver already included in these modern Puppies. So there's no point posting the packages.

But the modesetting driver is not compatible with the older kernel in Puppy Lucid 5.1/5.2.x, so the fbdev driver remains useful for Lucid.
It's available here -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=67166

I just updated the installation instructions.

[tempestuous]

UPDATE:
The modesetting driver has recently been further developed to support 2D/X-Video acceleration from X.Org Server 1.17 onwards -
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n ... 7-Released
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n ... px=MTg2Mzc

How does this translate to Puppy? Slacko6-beta has xorg-server 1.14. Tahrpup 6.x has xorg-server 1.15. No good with either of these.
But I see that Ubuntu Vivid Vervet has xorg-server 1.17
... and I see that 666philb has created a Puppy derivative based on Vivid -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=98032

Poulsbo graphics users - you should really try the modesetting driver in Vividpup beta!