Intel GMA500 Poulsbo works with recent kernels.

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org>

|   Many linux users who bought early netbooks with Intel GMA Poulsbo GPUs
| ended up kicking themselves in the rear. If you got rid of yours, you
| may end up kicking yourself in the rear even more.  According to
| http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/linux-gma500-poulsbo-driver-moved-out-of-staging/

My understanding is that this is frame-buffer-only (with kernel mode
switching).  A big step forward, but no acceleration.  This is important 
because Intel is starting to integrate this on-chip with the Atom.

If you care about video in the Atom space, ION is better.  (Expensive,
probably eats more power, not common except for HTPC)

Or get an AMD CPU+GPU chip (C-60 or E-350). (Not very available but I
don't understand why.)

Or get a low power i3 system (more money).
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