Intel® GMA 500 Driver for Linux

Production Version - 5.0.0.0040

Release Notes

03/31/2009

Supported Operating Systems
    Ubuntu* Mobile & Embedded (UME)

    Moblin*

    Midinux* 2.0 SP3

    Fedora Core* 6

   

 

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Date

Driver Revision

Description

Build Number

Mar 31, 2009

PV – 5.0.0.0040

Production Version for Intel® SCH executing on Linux operating system. This is the first graphics driver release for Intel GMA 500.

0040

 

Intel® GMA 500 Driver for Linux


The Production Version release of the Intel® GMA 500 Driver for Linux contains support for the Intel® System Controller Hub executing on the Linux operating system.  

The following outlines features that have not yet been completed or contain issues that may impact functionality.  It is recommended to limit testing in the following areas:

Platform Configuration

The following outlines the set dependencies associated with the Linux graphics driver that has been validated for this release

 

 

Fedora Core 6

UME
(Hardy - 20080530)

MIDINUX 2.0
(Build SP3)

Component

Version

Version

Version

Kernel

2.6.20

2.6.24

2.6.22

X.org

1.3

1.4

1.3

MESA

7.0

7.0

7.0

Libdrm

2.3.xx

2.3.xx

2.3.xx

Intel GMA 500 Codecs

1.8.8.22

1.8.8.22

1.8.8.22

 

 

 

 

 

Feature Supported

Reference No

Description

N/A

All Display Features (Clone, Rotation and Extended Desktop)

N/A

Panels supported by VBIOS.  This can be changed through the BIOS panel option.  The default boot-up setting is panel #7

#1 = VGA 640x480

#2 = VESA 800x600

#3 = VESA 1024x768

#4 = 640 x 480 8.4" NEC

#5 = 800 x 480 9" NEC

#6 = 1024 x 600 5.61" TMD

#7 = 1024 x 768 15" Samsung

#8 = 1280 x 768 Generic timing

#9 = 1280 x 768 7.2" Sharp

#10 = 1280 x 800 15.4" Samsung

#11 = 1024 x 768 Generic timing

#12 = 1024 x 768 Generic timing

#13 = 1024 x 768 Generic timing

#14 = 1280 x 800 Generic timing

#15 = 1280 x 600 Generic timing

#16 = 1366 x 768 11.1" TMD

N/A

All 3D features completed

N/A

All Video features completed

N/A

Feature support added for UL11L sku of Intel® System Controller

N/A

Hardware Vertex Shader and Transform and Lighting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Known Issues

Sighting

Number

Component

Title

N/A

2D/3D

[X Demo – Glthreads] X will shut down when running more than 16 threads with 512MB or 34 threads with 1GB ram.

N/A

2D/3D

[X Demo – Manywin] X will shut down when running more than 16 windows with 512MB or 34 windows with 1GB ram.

1893081

Video

Tearing occurs during DVD playback without Intel hardware accelerated codecs.

1893381

2D/3D

Clutter test application shows tearing on rotating textures.

 

Resolved Issues

Sighting

Number

Component

Title

18250

2D/3D

Corruption on the LCD screen upon entering and resuming from S3.

1890459

Internal Display

When lid switch is turned off (when lid is closed), it does not stay off as expected. Mouse / keyboard action may turn on display.

1890797

2D/3D

Entering S3 state with the Intel GMA 500 2D drivers may cause system to hang.

1890925

2D/3D

Some X server tests may fail with the Intel GMA 500 2D drivers that do not fail with the VESA drivers.

1891074

Rotation

Application glxgears is not displayed when rotated or is unable to rotate when requested.

1891095

2D/3D

EXA-based 2D Acceleration tests : Some rendercheck cases fail. Composite tests: 96.37% pass.

1891096

2D/3D

Xv Extension only supports UYVY and YUY2 formats, does not support YUV12 format yet.

1891097

2D/3D

X DGA (Direct Graphics Access) extension is unstable.

1891098

2D/3D

Glean test cases api2, depthStencil, fragProg1, glsl1, exactRGBA, polygonOffset, pointAtte fail or are unable to execute.

1891099

2D/3D

Mesa demos: fire, ipers, lodbias, paltex, shadowtex, streaming_rect, trispd, vao_demo and X demos: glthreads, glxcontexts, manywin, pbdemo, pbinfo, yuvrect_client fail or unable to execute.

1891100

2D/3D

3D Applications x11perf, GoogleEarth, PPracer, Ut2004 and Doom 3 fail or are unable to execute.

1891104

Video

Video Acceleration API (vaapi) returns incorrect error code when providing invalid parameters.

1891105

Video

CRC error with certain MPEG4 based video clips.

1891106

Video

CRC error with certain h.264 based video clips. WW10: no change here.

1891131

Video

CRC error with certain MPEG2 based video clips.

1891204

Power Management

System Hang when entering into S3 after running 3D application.

1891326

External Display

Adding default mode to xorg.conf doesn't work for TV.

1891327

External Display

Linux drivers will support NTSC_M, NTSC_M_J, PAL_M, PAL_60, but setting to other TV formats may cause flashing.

1891369

External Display

TV format would return to NTSC_M when rotating image to the left, right or inverted.

1892154

2D/3D

Display flickering seen on CRT monitor in dual display mode when running 2D/3D app.

1892133,

1892231

2D/3D

Random system hang during playback of some video content with Helix plugins.

1893096

2D/3D

Mahjongg, a gnome-game, displays corrupted card images.

1893103

DRI

Use of large textures with Clutter library causes performance degradation.

1893229

2D/3D

Firefox* crashes after few minutes with Intel GMA 500 Graphics driver installed.

1893379

2D/3D

Chess pieces do not move in Chess game in 3D mode and HW VS Beta driver.

N/A

2D/3D

[Mesa Demo – Gears] The big red gears in Gears flashes.

N/A

2D/3D

[Mesa Demo - Gloss ] Sometimes Gloss aborted if running for a long time.

N/A

2D/3D

[Mesa Demo – Pointblast] Pointblast displays the green part smaller than SW rendering.

N/A

2D/3D

[Mesa Demo – Shadowtex] Display screen flashes.

N/A

2D/3D

[GridMarks3 – Bench 7] This test causes system segmentation fault.

1893375

2D/3D

glxdemo displays corrupted image when resizing application's window.

N/A

2D/3D

[Mesa Demo – Spriteblast] This demo shows blank screen.

N/A

2D/3D

[X Demo – Glxgears] The red gear flashes.

N/A

2D/3D

[SPECviewperf9] System has no response after running first case on SKU4–D2. Some test cases aborted on other SKUs.

N/A

2D/3D

[UT2004] System has no response when loading the game on SKU4-D2 and all SKUs with D1 stepping. Mesa 7.0.3 implementation error: PVRUniFlexCompileToHw failed on other SKUs with D2 stepping.

N/A

2D/3D

[Doom3] Game aborted on SKU4-D2 and had no response on other SKUs.

N/A

2D/3D

[OpenGL BAT Functions – Basic Vertex Shader] The black box flashes in on all SKUs with D2 stepping.

1893535

2D/3D

Xserver restarts itself after N hours with flash animation rich websites.

1893729

2D/3D

HDMI Certification and HDMI Windows-like Hotplug support.

N/A

Linux Kernel

Merged kernel 2.6.27 support into 2.3.0.32L.0033 Graphic Driver Release.

N/A

Linux Kernel

Merged kernel 2.6.21 and 2.6.27 support into 5.0.0.0040 Graphic Driver Release.

1893786, 1893806

2D/3D

2D and 3D performance decreased due to driver regression issue between 2.1.0.32L.0019 to 5.0.0.0040 Graphic Driver releases.