Wow, fun ... fun ... fun, just keep thinking those words and
maybe you'll survive. It looks like somebody took an
industrial embedded aplications video chip and put it in a
laptop as a cheap substitute for an ATI Rage, etc. Not an
perfect solution (doesn't appear to have video accel/decoding
ect. but that doesn't always work the rest of us either) but I
supose it works.
Anyways, a quick search found a german spec page (google
"sm910") which indicates this chip is VESA 2.0 compliant so
your best bet would be the VESA frame buffer Xserver "FBDev".
This basically uses a common set of commands to interact with
any compliant chip though it does not have many/any?
accelerations. It may not be in your default Slackware distro.
(I've never used Slackware) so you may have to download from
www.xfree86.org, the glib2.0 version (I think, never used
Slackware). You can find documentation on how to set it up,
far better than I could give you, there or in one of the many
"Using FBDev on ATI Rage Lt Pro/etc. chipset" pages.
One note of intrest, you might try asking/bugging/worming
your way into the deep recesses of your vendor's support
center. According to Silicon Motion's FAQ under "Where are the
Linux drivers!?", OEMs were provided with an alpha Linux
driver.
Adrian
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Subject: X-Server for Silicon Motion Lynx.
Hi.
I am running Slackware 7.0 (UMSDOS version), and would like to
install X. However, I'm pretty new to Linux, and quite near the
bottom of the learning curve.
My problem is that I cannot find a server for my chipset.
Details are:
DISPLAY (details as listed by Windoze 98):
Manufacturer: Silicon Motion Inc.
Chip type: SM910 Lynx
DAC type: Silicon Motion Internal
Memory: 4Mb
LINUX:
Slackware 7.0 UMSDOS (ZipSlack), Kernel 2.2.6
LAPTOP (Atlas Flyer 4700):
CPU: AMD K6/2, 380Mhz
RAM: 64Mb
HDD: 6.0Gb, Partitioned for Windoze 98 FAT32, three logical
drives of 2gb each, Linux on Windoze Drive E:
Any advice/recommendations gratefully received!
Thanks.
Ozz.
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