I know that the Nokia Booklet 3g has the Intel GMA500 graphics card and it is a PROBLEM. So spare me please.
MATE seems to be running well on the booklet but the problem is when I play videos like Youtube or saved Movies. Videos are choppy and so is the audio.
Can anybody help me please find a solution? I’ve seen some regarding the gma500 driver but a lot of those links doesn’t exist any more plus I am a newbie at Linux.
MATE looks great and I believe it will have a great future. Thanks in advance guys and more power!
Hi wolfman! Thanks for the reply… I seriously dont know how much ram nor how big my swap is… I very new with the Linux operating system so I got no idea HOW and WHERE I could find that. What I do know is that my setting are all defaults … as in just installed. I do hope that clears a lot of things. I will do this recommendation of yours and I will post my progress here.
Install Gparted and then open it and it will show you your partition layout including the swap partition!, open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + t) and paste the following command to install it:
sudo apt-get install gparted
You will find the app once installed in the top panel: System > Administration > Gparted
I used to have one of these machines. Beautiful hardware, but the slow HDD, GMA500 and 1 gig of memory makes it slow. I have a similar gma500 netbook now, and I actually run Manjaro Netbook edition on it. Works fearly great for YouTube, video and Skype. https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=7319
It runs a modified XFCE version, so it is just as lightweight as Mate.
In fact, I wish the lightweight desktop community would embrace the slower atom and/or GMA500 based computers. Many of them would make great machines for secondary use cases. My first endevour with Ubuntu was installing “Ubuntu eee” on my EeePC 900 back in 2007.
OK, I’ve done all the updates and still, video is choppy and so is the audio. I’ve seen the GMA500 driver but upon further reading, it seems that the support for the driver was stopped and that the links are now broken… any suggestions guys??
@wolfman - Hi buddy.... your telling me that the Intel drivers MATE currently have is 100% compatible with the GMA500? Is this the one your talking about??
because im still having that skipping problem with play back. At this point I've done all the suggested upgrade and updates. Any other things you can suggest? I'm seriously thinking of using a different OS at this point.
There doesn’t seem to be too much new support for your graphics card under Ubuntu, much the same as the SIS GPU!.
There are basically no new drivers for your GPU, what you see is what you get and is included in the current kernels!, you can take a look here but don’t hold your breath!:
Another reason why you are having problems is the fact that you have an “Atom” CPU which misleads people into thinking that it is indeed powerful; when quite the opposite is the real case!.
You could try upgrading your RAM if at all possible which would help!.
@wolfman - Thanks buddy for the support you have given me. I’m very certain that the Atom processor has nothing to do with the errors I’m getting. I even tried playing an MP3 and it still was skipping.
Somehow I have this feeling that I just dont have the right drivers. I’m checking out PerpermintOS and see what will happen. I’ll be back to let you guys know the results.
