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In my first post about my "fit PC 2", I mentioned my problems with the GMA 500 graphics and the closed source driver by Intel (iegd). Recent iegd version doesn't work with up-to-date X.org-server 1.7 in Ubuntu 10.04.

Today, I tried it again because of a post in the "fit-PC2" forum. User "fly" describes the steps you have to follow to use the psb ("poulsbo") driver with Ubuntu 10.04 on the "fit-PC 2". The following steps is only a copy of his howto:

1. Install Ubuntu 10.04
2. Install latest updates (will be done automatically if you use the GUI upgrade tool)

3. Add ppa:gma500 repository

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gma500/ppa && sudo apt-get update

4. Install patched poulsbo drivers

   sudo apt-get install poulsbo-driver-2d poulsbo-driver-3d poulsbo-config

5. Use Compulabs xorg.conf

   wget -c "http://fit-pc2.com/download/ubuntu/files/xorg.conf"
   sudo mv xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf

6. Reboot

Unfortunately, the screen was black after the reboot and the keyboard didn't work :-(

My solution was the following:

1. login via SSH on the running fit-PC2 with the black screen. Of course you should enable the sshd before upgrade!

2. rebuild the psb driver for the new running kernel 2.6.32-24-generic:

   dpkg-reconfigure psb-kernel-source

3. Reboot



Now the 2D works perfectly for my needs. Only with audio I was fighting a short time, and suddenly it worked. Unfortunately I don't know why :-(