New Open Source Poulsbo Driver in 2.6.39 staging

It works pretty nicely - though just as a framebuffer device so far. A specialized Xorg userspace driver for the new staging kernel driver i...Read more »

XBMC with VAAPI on Poulsbo (Intel GMA500) or other VAAPI Systems

It's not possible directly right now due to limitations of the existing GMA 500 drivers (IEGD, PSB, ...) and probably other vaapi driver...Read more »

Backlight Finally Works - Generic Poulsbo GMA 500 Fix via ACPI Video Interface

The trick is to go into drivers/acpi/video.c and remove the part that disables the acpi handling if there is an intel opregion present. The...Read more »

Backlight Control on MSI U110 Netbook

I've managed to get the backlight working roughly as well! All I needed to do was to load msi-laptop with the parameter force=1. The pro...Read more »

Setting Up VAAPI Hardware Accelerated Video Decoding for Ubuntu 10.04 (example Intel Poulsbo GMA 500)

(For the more detailed  guide for Ubuntu 9.10 , which works much better for me, including suspend to ram, see here. ) This is just a really,...Read more »

Saving 33% or 3 Watts of Power with your Netbook (here a Poulsbo system)

I've tried around a lot to see how much more power I can save on my system. An easy step with lots of success was to configure the lapto...Read more »

Intel Poulsbo Frustration Continues a Year Later

I'm also  frustrated. I happily bought my netbook about exactly a year ago as many others in the hope that Intel would provide a well wo...Read more »

Poulsbo is Already working on Ubuntu 10.04

It's not a flawless support and currently without 3D, but there is a poulsbo driver for Ubuntu 10.04 . (The link helps for all Ubuntu ve...Read more »

Over 9 Hours of Video on Battery with the MSI Wind U110

After I've managed to set up the video acceleration, it was time to test if it's really as power efficient as claimed. I just tried ...Read more »

How to set up X and VAAPI Accelerated HD Video on the MSI Wind U110 (GMA500 - Poulsbo) and Ubuntu Karmic 9.10

The following guide is now slightly outdated as Ubuntu 10.04 is out and new drivers are necessary, also some of the repositories I originall...Read more »

X Video finally works - Poulsbo and Linux on the MSI Wind U110 - Fix for BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000

If you tried to get poulsbo to run on your system and you get a message like this, you should try the fix posted below. "kernel BUG: un...Read more »