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Hi Guys,

I'm desperately trying to make this netbook quieter by managing the fan operation. I used to employ acerfand but moving to Natty broke it.

I'm trying to find a way to employ either...

wow, that would be the day...

Luca, is Natty the best option for the 751? With which driver pack?

Thanks a lot.

Hello guys, thank you again for all the effort you put in making this crappy GPU to work!

My GMA500 inflicted Acer 751 running Lucid was decommissioned due to it's lack of ability to present PPS's...

Thanks Mike, here's what I got. Let me know if you need more info or another log.

Thanks Mike - it's this n then...

Used gedit to delete, I'll try and reinstall. Got this message:

Hi tista, thanks.

well no, can you please post the code line/s?

EDIT: Purged something, then tried and got:



Udi

Oh gods of GMA500, hear my plea!

Using EMGD on Acer 751 with Lucid, I'm trying to revert to psb, but cannot download from the PPA, I keep getting messages about authentication problems...

What...

External monitor detection is disabled by default in EMGD driver. You should go to the CED and create another configuration that has autodetect checked ON, then go to the inf file and add a line...

EMGD brings good performance to my XP Acer751h, though you'd have to customize the driver via the configuration editor, and edit the inf file to get more than basic features (auto detect, external...

Thanks Dave, I hoped to hear better news...

Hi All,

Any news on requesting Intel to open the GMA500 drivers, or other native solution to this botched affair?

GMA500 makes my Acer 751 with Lucid works slow, adding RAM didn't make any...

OK, I'll wait for a more persistent, excellent GMA500 performance on Maverick.

Cheers

Luca hi,

Do you suggest then an upgrade to Maverick? (751, 1gig RAM, Lucid)

Thank you guys for trying to help,

Shift key works when Compiz is disabled in the appearance-> visual effects tab...

Any idea on how to retain shift key AND Compiz?

Thanks,

Udi

guys, can you please help me out here with the shift key disappearance act - question mark -

it must be related to one of the latest steps i took based on this thread..

thanks..

jose, do you mean me questionmark

i have psb running now,and all is well.

only thing missing are shift keys...

"name or service not known" when trying to add the gma500 ppa.

UPDATE - success. i have managed to reach low graphic mode and my regular terminal, so re installed psb drivers and all is working,...

Hi Jose,

First step yielded "broken or not fully installed".

Second step got error exit status 2, then error code 1.

Removed, purged, tried to install but no go. Tried to apt-get update,...

Guys,

I updated with update manager and can't boot Lucid, grub offers the kernel but then goes blank.

Acer 751, Lucid with most current methods for GMA500 usability installed manually.

safe...

flash replacer needs vaapi option in the gnomemplayer. i dont have this option in the gnome mplayer i just installed per the walkthrou.

also, google earth behaves weird...

and i cant use shift...

thanks guys..compiz working in normal mode, i'm still to see how it behaves on my 751.

nome mplayer is missing the option vaapi in video output. i have the mplayer version i installed a couple of...

Guys,

Can you please provide an idiot proof walkthrough for enabling Compiz and the Flash workarounds? Like I don't know where to and how to add n /etc/X11/xorg.conf DEVICE section....

Thanks...

Have they no shame?

Great, it works.

Thank you!