So, the driver was written, and included in the special-sauce version of Ubuntu that Dell uses, and also in Ubuntu Netbook Remix. This is presumably because Tungsten have been supporting PowerVR chips for a long time, so they know their way around the hardware. Intel, Dell or some combination of the two contracted out to Tungsten Graphics to write a driver for it. Why's it significant? Because Dell ship it with Ubuntu. So it's basically a whole new architecture that needs a whole new driver.Īside from the Vaio P and a couple of other systems, there's one significant machine with the GMA 500 chip in it: the Dell Mini 12. It's a bit of Intel's platform with a PowerVR (those of you who've been breaking crap as long as I have may remember PowerVR as an early contender to 3DFX and NVIDIA they've since scurried off into niche markets) chip slapped on top of it. Here's the gory details.Īs I wrote in my previous post, the GMA 500 is not really a follow up to all the previous Intel chips. So, poking around idly on Google this morning, I came across the interesting fact that there is, in fact, a native Linux driver for Intel GMA 500 - Poulsbo - graphics on Linux.ĭon't get excited, though.
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