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Some days ago, I was brave to do a "do-release-upgrade" call on my fit-pc2. Before it was 11.04 and now I am running Ubuntu 11.10.

But of course this only works with my own linux kernel. I had som 3.2.0-rc2 running from november. This kernel won't be replaced by Ubuntu. That's of course, what I wanted.

My first problem after upgrade was the music playback. It run too fast (!) and alsa threw error messages about buffer underrun.

So, I assumed some problems with my "old" kernel and the updated alsa userland libs/tools. And decided to upgrade the kernel by a fresh "git pull".

After this, the music is working again - but where is my gma500 driver gone? It moved from staging to mainline drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/ !

Alan Cox started last november the move. And now it will be finished with coming kernel release 3.3. The driver is called gma500_gfx now.

I'm really happy about this!

The only thing I had to change, is my kernel config.

There is still one issue open: On bootup, the X-server output is only shown in the top half of the monitor.

I found a simple workaround. I just stop and start the lightdm. This "fixes" the issue for me now. I hope this will be fixed in coming versions of the driver.

I place my fix in /etc/rc.local:

stop lightdm
start lightdm