Re: Dropping fallback mode in 3.8

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 10:18 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 09:00:56PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Equally its near unusable on a brand new netbook which has Imagination
> > graphics and a relatively low end CPU.
> 
> How could GNOME encourage decent drivers? Have the GNOME foundation ask
> the company? Go via Linux Foundation? Maybe some kind of request? Would
> throwing money at it help (how much?)?

People have been banging their heads about this chipset:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poulsbo_(chipset)#Poulsbo

There's nothing to be done about it, Intel wanted to save money and
bought a GPU core for their Atom CPU along with binary blobs for
drivers.

It's junk.