I am following the advice on this bug [2] report to setup the GMA 500 with the ppa ubuntu drivers on squeeze.
See [1] for some comments, vesa driver setup, and further references. In my setup, I had X running at 1366x768 with the vesa driver, using a patched grub-pc to support the GMA500. I have taken the following steps: 1. download git head from the reference in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=533450#50 and unpack 2. for each of the packages, go to the directory, run dpkg-buildsource, check the required references, install them and run dpkg-buildpackage again, and install the resulting deb package (if you install the source package, then use apt-get build-dep on each package to install its references). Some of the packages require a --force-overwrite option, as detailed in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=533450#70 3. after all the packages are build, edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf as outlined in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=533450#65 Then I have in /usr/lib/: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33020 Sep 9 09:50 /usr/lib/libdrm.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Sep 9 10:33 /usr/lib/libdrm.so -> libdrm.so.2.3.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Sep 9 20:23 /usr/lib/libdrm.so.2 -> libdrm.so.2.4.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31992 Sep 9 09:50 /usr/lib/libdrm.so.2.3.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34580 Jul 21 10:32 /usr/lib/libdrm.so.2.4.0 Then I changed my xorg.conf from Driver "vesa" to Driver "psb" and reloaded X. It fails with the following errors: (EE) PSB(0): screnIndex is:0;fbPhys is:0x7f800000; fbsize is:0x007bf000 (EE) PSB(0): First SDVO output reported failure to sync or input is not trainded!!! Anyone seen this error, or maybe pointers/ideas to fix it? I am running kernel 2.6.30. On the bright side, the psb kernel module publishes the backlight files under /sys/class, and that allows me to adjust LCD brightness. It also gives a nice (and slow) 1366x768 console. Pedro [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-lap...@lists.debian.org/msg51520.html [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=533450 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org