[arch-general] Some problems with a dell mini

[Andrea Crotti]

Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0 at gmail.com> writes:

> Ray Rashif <schivmeister at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I got a hold of the AspireOne. Plugged in my Arch-on-a-Stick and BAM!
>>
>> 3D is DEAD. Or, dying.
>>
>> I'm giving up on this as a regression of intel/mesa, because some
>> months ago this same netbook played UrbanTerror on Ubuntu Netbook
>> Remix. I can't test it on that again, because I see that the owner has
>> rerwritten the disk with Windows 7.
>>
>> God bless the Linux Intel GFX developers.
>>
>>
>> --
>> GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD
>
> I found this page which describes exactly my machine
> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Dell_Inspiron_Mini_10_(1010)#Audio
> now I'm compiling the psb driver, reading from what they say I should
> reach an amazing resolution (I thought 1024x800 was the max) and maybe
> the 3d will work :)

Ok great, now after
modprobe psb
the framebuffer goes to an amazing resolution (the native I guess).
But starting X is veryy bad still, maybe I have to tell to Xorg to load
the psb driver...