Hello, On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 02:50:09PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Welcome
Thanks! > The GMA500 is just a graphics driver. If there is a touchscreen then that > is connected to something else entirely. Outch, ok :) > It's also quite a limited graphics driver - it'll do mode setting and very > fast text mode console but has no 2D/3D acceleration support included > because Imagination always kept the 3D acceleration info secret and the 2D > acceleration wasn't worth supporting. Yes, I know this, but thanks for the reminder. The gma500 driver as I intend to use it looks good enough though. > The usb would best be viewed with a more detailed lsusb (-vv or similar) > but I'd guess that Attached lsusb -vv > Syntek is the camera There are two cameras, one front one rear. > Primax is the built in mouse AFAIK there is no built in mouse, I attach a USB one to get a pointing device. > Option is the 3G Modem Ok. > so the touch screen would presumably be hiding somewhere else. Given the > platform I would guess its either using the mouse port or a serial port. > I don't remember any built in i2c/spi controller on that chipset anyway. > > If it's on the ps/2 port it might work, if it's on the serial port you > are going to have to reverse engineer the protocol. Alright! Thank you very much for your valuable input and the time taken. I still have the SFR linux iso, maybe reinstalling the working OS could help me. I'll need more room, so buy a micro-SD card to host both systems :) One more question: would you advise me to stick to -rc kernels (more stable?) or move to git (more appropriate?) for a newbee in linux device drivers development? Thanks, -- Benoît Vaillant
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