By not too hard, I meant, not completely impossible. I was given a little bit of info on the board because I promised Wad that I wouldn't get other people to bother him about it :S
At least I didn't post the hardware list to my blog! Seth btw, I'm whyxo.com On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Paul Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > martin wrote: > > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:40 AM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Remote_display#Binaries > > > Can you be more specific as to what USB video adapters > > > this might work with ? > > > > It's packaged in most distros (F7, recent Ubuntus), so `man sisusb` or > > `man sisusbvga` should give an passable overview. The author keeps a > > good page: > > > > http://www.winischhofer.eu/linuxsisusbvga.shtml > > > > > how would one go about influencing which driver modules, for > "accessory" peripherals like this, get built as a matter of > course for new kernels? > > it seems to me that there's a (perhaps minor, but real) need for > builds of drivers that don't necessarily get packaged on every > XO, but which are available somewhere, for every kernel. this > usb vga thing is a good example. others which keep coming up on > the forums are things like bluetooth support, and the full set of > usb serial dongles. i built and made available the bluetooth and > usb serial modules for the use of some G1G1 folks, but that > tarball will go stale pretty quickly when the kernel moves on. > > there are other equally "optional" modules (like usb audio > support) which _do_ get built and installed by default. seems like > there might be a win-win possible by separating "what to build" > from "what to install" -- the default install could shrink, and > the flexibility for users would go up. > > (there may be a trac item already on this -- i admit to not > looking.) > > paul > =--------------------- > paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 53.6 > degrees) > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >
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