[Mageia-dev] Mageia support for GMA 3600 (Cedar Trail Atom)

[tux99-mga at uridium.org]

On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 tux99-mga at uridium.org wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> I just tried Mageia 2 beta 1 on a Intel DN2800MT board hoping that it 
> would have framebuffer support for the GMA 3600, but the attached 
> monitor goes into standby (no signal) as soon as the frame buffer gets 
> activated during boot.
> 
> As far as I understand there is frame buffer support in the 3.3 kernel 
> for the GMA 3600 so in theory it should work.
> 
> Are you aware of this issue or should I do a bug report?
> 
> Has anyone else tested a GMA 3600 (the GPU that's in all Cedar Trail 
> Atom cpus) with Mageia so far?
> 
> Regards,
> tux99

Just to add: I have tried all grub opptions (normal, non-fb and 
failsafe) on each of them the same thing happens. with non-fb I can see 
the boot process until almost the end, I guess it's the start of the dm 
that triggers the loss of signal in that case.

I tried editing the grub line adding a "3" at end hopeing to get it to 
boot to runlevel 3 but that doesn't seem to work as the behaviour 
doesn't change. Is "3" on the grub line still supposed to work?

I imagine this GMA3600 issue needs solving before the final release as 
CedarTrail Atoms will be in most Netbooks sold this year, and even 
though netbooks are less popular then they used to be, they are still 
selling by the milions especially in Asia.

Let me know what I could do to help debug this.