yes, this is what I referred to earlier in this thread (I think, it's been going on a long time).

there has been a build with the IVI drivers, but there was a bug, they fixed the bug, but didn't make a release of the build for people to download. sigh.

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see also
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupp...eoCardsPoulsbo

if yr a real sucker for punishment, there's a 131 page forum thread about getting the driver into 10.04 on that page, which takes you here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1229345


this is why my U820 which triple-booted ubuntu 10.04, moblin/meego and windows 7 spends most of its life booting windows7 ;-(