Hi Biff!
Thank you for your reply on this one, I really appreciate it and I would just like to add that I have been using wattOS on other machines and I really really like it! So yeah, big thank you for your efforts and for making a great (lean!) product.
All of this is certainly out of my depth but if understand currently:
- cdv-gfx-drivers-1.0.3 only works with kernels <3.1
(
https://communities.intel.com/thread/38972?start=30&tstart=0 )
- there are experimental git efforts to port it but it seems to only work up to kernel 3.9
(
https://github.com/thomas001/cedarview-drm/issues)
- x server will only work with modesetting but won't support accelerated 2d
(
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_GMA3600#Cedarview-drm_module_port)
- a few people made reference to step-by-step instructions on installing the drivers on debian (as a patch?) but it seems to point to a 404 pdf document from Intel's servers
(
https://communities.intel.com/thread/29157?start=165&tstart=0 )
It looks like like Imagination Technologies wants to lock this (4yr old!) gfx card's IP in a vault and !ntel sees the cedar trail as old dead wood (pun intended?).
>> Honest question:
Should I try: option a) venture in trying to make this driver work? option b) scavenge for a pcie gfx card that is supported right off the bat?
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For background:
I wanted to use this board because I already had it from an old win xp desktop and from spec it happens to have really tolerant power management.
Effectively I want to hook it to a battery and use it as cheap field-test "not quite hard-real-time embedded" rig for computer vision experiments (GTK + openCV). So 2d&3d acceleration is needed for it to have acceptable latency otherwise I am probably better off sourcing another target for these field trials.
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As always, any advice/suggestions/ideas are welcome, from Biff, or all the other users.
I look forward to hearing from you guys
Thank you once again in advance.
