It looks like there is some hope for the video performance of our netbooks with Intel integrated graphics after all. At a Moblin Linux development meeting in Germany this week several demonstrations were setup showing netbooks with Intel GMA chipsets running HD videos and graphics intensive games.
Probably the most impressive demo showed an MSI Wind U115 with an Atom Z530 processor and GMA 500 graphics running Quake III in HD resolution on an external display at about 35 frames per second. It looks like this performance is due to the highly tweaked and efficient Moblin drivers, because you definitely won’t see this happening on a Windows machine.
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- Moblin Linux 2.1 available
- Intel Atom N450 vs N470
- Intel Atom Developer SDK available for download
- Fedora 12 “Constantine” Linux announced
- Intel Atom developer program SDK ready for download
This will be sweet when it becomes publicly available, especially since, right now, Moblin will not even run on GMA 500. Currently I’m having to run Ubuntu, which doesn’t have any 3d whatsoever right now.
What Version of Moblin? I Have a Mini 1010 with the GMA500 and have been searching ridiculously for support on the GMA500. Moblin 2.1 doesn’t support GMA500 (As all others really don’t well either)… this is good news if this was reported correctly.
these were indeed custom drivers that are not in version 2.1 but should be released shortly (don’t know an exact date)
Hopefully these custom drivers are better than the ones for ubuntu… works great… and then freezes OS after 10 minutes every time.
Jolicloud is supposed to have GMA 500 support as well (they tweeted it but there is nothing on the site for a roadmap.