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[Bug 330906] Re: MASTER: GMA-500 lacks driver for 8.10 and 9.10 (poulsbo works only on 8.04 and 9.04)

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From: Jeremy Bicha <jeremy@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:13:06 -0000
Reply-to: Bug 330906 <330906@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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m0dcm, you act as though this is Canonical's problem but it isn't. It
takes a lot of luck, time, and work to reverse engineer drivers when you
don't have any cooperation from the ones that built the hardware. The
ones who built the hardware haven't bothered to release newer drivers
that work on the video stack used in Lucid. Maybe they will in a few
months as the Linux kernel 2.6.32 happens to be an important release. My
advice is to reinstall Karmic as many have had luck with getting the
drivers working there, or if you like Jolicloud, you can use that
(Jolicloud is built on Karmic any way; that's why it works, it's not
Canonical being lazy or incompetent or malicious).

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MASTER: GMA-500 lacks driver for 8.10 and 9.10 (poulsbo works only on 8.04 and 9.04)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330906
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