Intel GMA 500 compatibility with Pi Desktop OS

[electrovalent]

Hello to everyone!

I want to test Pi OS on my old dell 1010 mini running Debian.
Currently the graphics performance is terrible.
Some old discussions about it: https://community.intel.com/t5/Graphics ... d-p/260140
But i also found this thread : viewtopic.php?t=4649&hilit=gma500
Which seems promising.
Can anyone help about the state of support regarding Intel GMA 500 on Raspberry Pi Desktop for PC and Mac?

Thanks in advance,
John

[B.Goode]

Hello to everyone!

I want to test Pi OS on my old dell 1010 mini running Debian.
Currently the graphics performance is terrible.
Some old discussions about it: https://community.intel.com/t5/Graphics ... d-p/260140
But i also found this thread : viewtopic.php?t=4649&hilit=gma500
Which seems promising.
Can anyone help about the state of support regarding Intel GMA 500 on Raspberry Pi Desktop for PC and Mac?

Thanks in advance,
John

I know nothing of Intel GMA 500. But I offer the following thoughts.

I want to test Pi OS on my old dell 1010 mini running Debian.

You cannot do so. The Raspberry Pi Operating System (RasPiOS) will only run on Raspberry Pi arm-based microcomputer hardware.

The Debian distribution known as "Raspberry Pi Desktop for PC and Mac" is a straightforward version of Debian for 'Wintel' hardware with the addition of the distinctive 'Raspberry Pi' Desktop GUI. You will not learn anything meaningful about the performance or compatibility of other specialised components in a Raspberry Pi hardware/OS context by testing them on your Dell/Debian platform.

Can anyone help about the state of support regarding Intel GMA 500 on Raspberry Pi Desktop for PC and Mac?

Conversely, if you DO want to use your Intel GMAS 500 on your Dell/Debian platform then it probably makes little difference what Desktop is running on top of the Debian OS, and any generic Debian Linux discussions about your issues are probably applicable to your situation.

[kerry_s]

raspberry os is built on debian, no difference other than custom apps.

which version of debian ?
they only recently started allowing non-free-firmware.

don't see why you would have issues though as intel has been supported on linux for ages.

maybe try some other linux install such as ubuntu or linux mint that include all that non-free drivers out of the box.

[kerry_s]

just looked the specs on your laptop.

no modern linux is going to do good on 1gb of ram !

you can use it with out gui and it would run like a champ.

[electrovalent]

I am following stable edition (bookworm now) on the 32bit architecture with reduced debian (https://wiki.debian.org/ReduceDebian) and lxqt.
Hardware is upgraded with 2GB ram and SSD disk.
Other than poor graphics performance, everything is working fine

[kerry_s]

it's most likely the low ram rather than graphics.

you can try adding zswap.enabled=1 to /etc/default/grub and do the sudo update-grub2 maybe it can help with the low ram.

2gb is the bare minimum, minus what the system takes.

other than that, i can only recommend using lighter apps, like epiphany-browser instead of firefox or chrome/chromium.

l3afpad instead of featherpad

pcmanfm-qt should be fine, i can't recall if it was heavy on resources.

the terminal is actually your best friend here, learn it, use it for the quick things.