Intel® GMA 500 Driver for Linux

Production Version - 2.2.0.32L.0020

Release Notes


09/09/2008

Supported Operating Systems
    Fedora Core 6* Operating System
    Ubuntu* Mobile & Embedded (UME)

    MIDINUX* 2.0

 

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Date

Driver Revision

Description

Build Number

November 07, 2007

Alpha Candidate 1

Initial Alpha Candidate 1 for Poulsbo executing on Linux operating system

NA

November 30, 2007

Alpha - 2.0.0.32L.0004

Alpha 2 feature complete graphics driver for Poulsbo executing on Linux operating system

0004

February 01, 2008

Alpha2 - 2.0.0.32L.0007

Alpha 3 feature complete graphics driver for Poulsbo executing on Linux operating system

0007

February 15, 2008

Beta1 - 2.0.0.32L.0008

Beta1 feature complete graphics driver for Poulsbo executing on Linux operating system

0008

April 04, 2008

Beta2 - 2.0.0.32L.0010

Beta2 feature complete graphics driver for Intel® SCH executing on Linux operating system

0010

May 02, 2008

PC - 2.0.0.32L.0014

Production Candidate for Intel® SCH executing on Linux operating system

0014

May 08, 2008

PV – 2.0.0.32L.0014

Production Version for Intel® SCH executing on Linux operating system

0014

May 23, 2008

PV – 2.0.0.32L.0015

Production Version for Intel® SCH executing on Linux operating system

0015

June 6, 2008

PV – 2.0.1.32L.0016

Production Version for Intel® SCH executing on Linux operating system

0016

June 20, 2008

PV – 2.1.0.32L.0019

Production Version for Intel® SCH executing on Linux operating system

0019

Sept 09, 2008

PV – 2.2.0.32L.0020

Production Version for Intel® SCH executing on Linux operating system

0020

 

Intel® GMA 500 Driver for Linux


The Production Version release of the Intel® GMA 500 Driver for Linux contains support for the QS steppings of the Intel® System Controller Hub executing on the Linux operating system.  

The following outlines features that have not yet been completed or contain issues that may impact functionality.  It is recommended to limit testing in the following areas:

Platform Configuration

The following outlines the set dependencies associated with the Linux graphics driver that has been validated for this release

 

 

Fedora Core 6

UME
(Hardy - 20080530)

MIDINUX 2.0
(Build SP1)

Component

Version

Version

Version

Kernel

2.6.20

2.6.24

2.6.22

X.org

1.3

1.4

1.3

MESA

7.0

7.0

7.0

Libdrm

2.3.xx

2.3.xx

2.3.xx

Menlow Codecs

1.8.8.22

1.8.8.22

1.8.8.22

 

 

 

 

Feature Supported

 

Reference No

Description

N/A

All Display Features (Clone, Rotation, Extended Desktop)

N/A

Panels supported by VBIOS.  This can be changed through the BIOS panel option.  The default boot-up setting is panel #7

#1 = VGA 640x480

#2 = VESA 800x600

#3 = VESA 1024x768

#4 = 640 x 480 8.4" NEC

#5 = 800 x 480 9" NEC

#6 = 1024 x 600 5.61" TMD

#7 = 1024 x 768 15" Samsung

#8 = 1280 x 768 Generic timing

#9 = 1280 x 768 7.2" Sharp

#10 = 1280 x 800 15.4" Samsung

#11 = 1024 x 768 Generic timing

#12 = 1024 x 768 Generic timing

#13 = 1024 x 768 Generic timing

#14 = 1280 x 800 Generic timing

#15 = 1280 x 600 Generic timing

#16 = 1366 x 768 11.1" TMD

N/A

All 3D features completed

N/A

All Video features completed

N/A

Feature support added for UL11L sku of Intel® System Controller

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Known Issues

Sighting

Number

Component

Title

1893103

DRI

Use of large textures with Clutter library causes performance degradation.

 

Resolved Issues

Sighting

Number

Component

Title

18250

2D/3D

Corruption on the LCD screen upon entering and resuming from S3

1890459

Internal Display

When lid switch is turned off (when lid is closed), it does not stay off as expected. Mouse / keyboard action may turn on display.

1890797

2D/3D

Entering S3 state with the Poulsbo 2D drivers may cause system to hang.

1890925

2D/3D

Some X server tests may fail with the Poulsbo 2D drivers that do not fail with the VESA drivers.

1891074

Rotation

Application glxgears is not displayed when rotated or is unable to rotate when requested

1891095

2D/3D

EXA-based 2D Acceleration tests : Some rendercheck cases fail. Composite tests: 96.37% pass.

1891096

2D/3D

Xv Extenstion only supports UYVY and YUY2 formats, does not support YUV12 format yet

1891097

2D/3D

X DGA (Direct Graphics Access) extention is unsable

1891098

2D/3D

Glean test cases api2, depthStencil, fragProg1, glsl1, exactRGBA, polygonOffset, pointAtte fail or are unable to execute

1891099

2D/3D

Mesa demos: fire, ipers, lodbias, paltex, shadowtex, streaming_rect, trispd, vao_demo and X demos: glthreads, glxcontexts, manywin, pbdemo, pbinfo, yuvrect_client fail or unable to execute

1891100

2D/3D

3D Applications x11perf, GoogleEarth, PPracer, Ut2004 and Doom 3 fail or are unable to execute

1891104

Video

Video Acceleration API (vaapi) returns incorrect error code when providing invalid parameters

1891105

Video

CRC error with certain MPEG4 based video clips

1891106

Video

CRC error with certain h.264 based video clips. WW10: no change here.

1891131

Video

CRC error with certain MPEG2 based video clips

1891204

Power Management

System Hang when entering into S3 after running 3D application

1891326

External Display

Adding default mode to xorg.conf doesn't work for TV

1891327

External Display

Linux drivers will support NTSC_M, NTSC_M_J, PAL_M, PAL_60, but setting to other TV formats may cause flashing

1891369

External Display

TV format would return to NTSC_M when rotating image to the left, right or inverted

1892154

2D/3D

Display flickering seen on CRT monitor in dual display mode when running 2D/3D app.

1892133,

1892231

2D/3D

Random system hang during playback of some video content with Helix plugins.