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[tempestuous]

UPDATE April 24 2011:
The pcb Xorg driver has not been successfully set up in Puppy 5.1/5.2
A working solution for the Poulsbo graphics device is the fbdev/uvesafb drivers,
now available for Puppy 5.1/5.2 here -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=67166

The Intel GMA500 Poulsbo graphics devices, as typically found in recent Atom-based netbooks, have been a problem in Linux. The "intel" Xorg driver doesn't support this graphics device at all, so Puppy's xorgwizard will fall back to the generic "vesa" Xorg driver. Not only is this driver limited in performance and features, it simply doesn't play well with the Poulsbo graphics hardware - apparently there are bad glitches.
And the "Xvesa" xserver gives similarly poor results.

A POSSIBLE solution is the new "pcb" Xorg driver, which has recently become available for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid, so it should be compatible with Puppy 5.x.
The Ubuntu deb repositories are here -
http://code.google.com/p/gma500/wiki/PPARepository
https://launchpad.net/~gma500/+archive/ppa/+packages

I have repackaged the various debs as dotpets for Puppy 5.1/5.2, available here -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=515093#515093

[tempestuous]

So clearly this driver would be ideal for Puppeee!
I have just sent a message to Jemimah to see if she can compile the kernel module for the Puppeee kernel.

I have already prepared a pcb Xorg package for Fluppy013, but I'm not sure what the situation is in Fluppy/Puppeee with OpenGL 3D libraries, so I will wait for Jemimah's response.

[tempestuous]

INSTRUCTIONS
Install the dotpets for the Xorg driver and kernel module, compatible with your Puppy version
(at this point, dotpet packages are only available for Puppy 5.1/5.2)
Optionally, you can also install the DRI (3D) dotpet.

First ensure you're actually running Xorg, not Xvesa!
Now you need to modify your Xorg configuration file, /etc/X11/xorg.conf
First I suggest you make a copy of this file in case of total failure! Call the copy something like "xorg.conf-backup"
Now open /etc/X11/xorg.conf in Geany.
Find the line under Section "Device" that starts with "Driver ...". The driver listed is likely to be "vesa" since that's the generic Xorg driver.
Change it to "pcb". Now the line looks like this -

[darkcity]

Did anyone ever succeed you this?

Someone considering Puppy here (scroll down)
http://www.reddit.com/r/LinuxActionShow/comments/16yc9x/bodilicious_bodhi_review_las_s25e04/

[pemasu]

There is now Poulsbo support available for Slacko and Upup Precise 3.7.2
Upup Precise needs that you install xorg modesetting driver as pet and one kernel module disabling (poulsbo.ko)
There is better kernel module now available and already in the distro.

[Q5sys]

[darkcity]

Thanks for the replies