Installing on the Dell Mini 12

[fitzkarraldo]

lol! are you italian? also me!
i bought this dell in italy, but with "particular" configuration -do-not-ask-me-how I did.
us keyboard, 802.11n card and 6 cells battery..

of course i was meaning poulsbo-driver-2d and poulsbo-driver-3d
-> pls post here your psb packages version

psb-firmware 0.30-0ubuntu1~904um1
psb-modules 4.41.1-0ubuntu1~904um1
xpsb-glx 0.18-0ubuntu1~904um1
xserver-xorg-video-psb 0.31.0-0ubuntu1~904um1

also, let us know if my ACPI workaround works for you.

no success, with .13 kernel and your ACPI settings the situations seemed worst, so I returned to standard settings but I still have crashes.

When I try to boot with .11 kernel I obtain several errors, among whose:
- DRM open failed
- could not initialize irq handler
- this driver currently needs DRM to operate

????

[pachistano]

psb-firmware 0.30-0ubuntu1~904um1
psb-modules 4.41.1-0ubuntu1~904um1
xpsb-glx 0.18-0ubuntu1~904um1
xserver-xorg-video-psb 0.31.0-0ubuntu1~904um1



no success, with .13 kernel and your ACPI settings the situations seemed worst, so I returned to standard settings but I still have crashes.

When I try to boot with .11 kernel I obtain several errors, among whose:
- DRM open failed
- could not initialize irq handler
- this driver currently needs DRM to operate

????

sorry,
no idea.
anybody else could help? it's hard to help you, cause i do not have this system configuration. during the weekend i will try to reproduce your problem in case i have enough time to spend on it.
btw, try to google for it, in my opinion is an ACPI issue, probably you need to play in this direction.

fabio

[satbunny]

I have exactly the same problem after an xpsb update on wednesday (that's when I installed it)

I am running Jaunty, kernel .11

My sources.list is as follows: this is quite conventional, but a few weeks ago it also included the backports and proposed repositories.

# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu-Netbook-Remix 9.04 _Jaunty Jackalope_ - Release i386 (20090421)]/ jaunty main multiverse restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates main restricted
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty universe
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty universe
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates universe
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty multiverse
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty multiverse
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates multiverse
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository.
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the
## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu jaunty partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu jaunty partner

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security multiverse

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/transmissionbt/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/transmissionbt/ubuntu jaunty main

[pachistano]

I have exactly the same problem after an xpsb update on wednesday (that's when I installed it)

I am running Jaunty, kernel .11

My sources.list is as follows: this is quite conventional, but a few weeks ago it also included the backports and proposed repositories.

why don't you people post a syslog?
clear it, and wait when the issue happens.
than post it here, could provide some clues...
...

[mikewhatever]

I have exactly the same problem after an xpsb update on wednesday (that's when I installed it)

I am running Jaunty, kernel .11

My sources.list is as follows: this is quite conventional, but a few weeks ago it also included the backports and proposed repositories.

The backports are there still, as for proposed, I don't think there is such a repository.

[aliosa27]

For those that are getting the drm(etc etc) errors now, you need to do a apt-get install linux-generic

This should take you to 2.6.28.13 .

Vaio P users;

add mem=1980MB to your kernel command line and you should be able to boot into X without the psb module bombing out .

[tyroeternal]

After the xpsb update my .11 kernel stopped letting X start, but the .13 suddenly started working just fine... Fortunately I did not have to monkey around with anything, other than modprobe wl to get my wireless up and running again.

[fitzkarraldo]

After the xpsb update my .11 kernel stopped letting X start, but the .13 suddenly started working just fine... Fortunately I did not have to monkey around with anything, other than modprobe wl to get my wireless up and running again.

have you had any freeze of X?

[pachistano]

have you had any freeze of X?

guys,
bad news.... i'm also experiencing freezes of X, no way to resume....
my acpi workaround works only to resume from suspend mode without problems (blank screen)... :S

[fitzkarraldo]

guys,
bad news.... i'm also experiencing freezes of X, no way to resume....
my acpi workaround works only to resume from suspend mode without problems (blank screen)... :S

in conclusion, actual version of drivers is quite unusable.