[geeks] Ubuntu on Intel graphics

[Joshua Boyd]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 08:54:12AM +0200, Jonathan Groll wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 06:46:51PM -0500, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
>> Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>> On Mar 7, 2010, at 1:15 AM, "Joshua D. Boyd" <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> However, when I say working, it only works in VESA mode.  It seems  
>>>> that the Intel driver in 9.10 won't work with this.  The Intel 
>>>> driver that will work with this requires a newer kernel, so it 
>>>> won't really  be properly supported until Ubuntu 10.04.  Sigh.
>
> Well, I guess you could try installing a 10.04 kernel package - the
> kernel package shouldn't have dependencies. Have you tried? 
>
> There is a kernel PPA repo:
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/

I never got around to trying that.

What I did try, and resolved all graphics problems (while creating its
own new issues) was just installing 10.04 alpha 3.  Seems stable, except
for the new software center.  I'll stick with apt-get and/or synaptic,
thank you.

But, graphics and acceleration work perfectly, and everything else seems
fine. 

Coming soon, some notes on trying OpenSolaris on this board.