Thank you for your reply.
Yes, this is for Geode LX support. 
Ubuntu 10.10 and Ubuntu 11.4 did not install on my Geode LX800 system, from 
your update below it sounds like it should be working on GeodeLX but not Geode 
GX2 or GX1.
 I will try Debian on Geode LX to see if I have better luck.

Thank you.
Rigo

-----Original Message-----
From: xorg-driver-geode-bounces+rigo.torres=amd....@lists.x.org 
[mailto:xorg-driver-geode-bounces+rigo.torres=amd....@lists.x.org] On Behalf Of 
Martin-Éric Racine
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 2:45 PM
To: Torres, Rigo
Cc: xorg-driver-geode@lists.x.org
Subject: Re: [Xorg-driver-geode] Any know installation issues on Geode with 
latest distributions versions?

2011/8/1 Torres, Rigo <rigo.tor...@amd.com>:
> My name is Rigo and I am from AMD customer support.
>
> We have a customer asking what are the supported Kernels and/or 
> distributions by the Geode graphics driver.

It really depends on what Geode variant we're talking about.
Generally-speaking, recent Fodera, Red Hat and Ubuntu releases don't support 
anything older than a Geode LX, due to their compilers producing i686-optimized 
binaries by standard, which obviously won't work on GX1/SC/GX2 hardware.  
Meanwhile, Debian should work on any known Geode variant, at least as far as 
performing a basic installation goes, since they ship binaries compiled with 
more generic i486-optimized binaries.

However, the X driver is an entirely different issue.  Basically, the 
xf86-video-geode module supports the LX mostly well, however its GX2 support is 
rather shaky and constantly on the verge of no longer working. Meanwhile, GX1 
and SC support is entirely gone, because the old xf86video-nsc module no longer 
builds on recent X server cores.

I hope that the above helps.

Best Regards,
Martin-Éric
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