Good news for people with an Intel GMA500 (Poulsbo) graphics card, support is now in the mainline Linux kernel.
In the Linux 3.3-rc1 (mainline) kernel the driver has moved out of staging and re-named.
It is now located under
Device Drivers ->
Graphics support ->
DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) ->
Intel GMA5/600 KMS Framebuffer
and is now called “gma500_gfx”.
Once the kernel team with your distribution of choice makes the adjustment, the GMA500 should work “out of the box” on any Linux Distribution using kernel 3.3 or higher.
Awesome work! Thanks a lot… Too bad i just sold my gma500 netbook lol.