I've recently had occasion to use X on a system built around the National 
Semiconductor Geode processor and Cyrix CS5530 companion chip. So far (see 
my notes at <http://www.larwe.com/technical/geode_linux.html>) I have only 
got XFree 3.3.6 working on this hardware so far, using the SVGA server with 
chipset "mediagx".

I'm not sure exactly what the MediaGX chipset offered, but the 
Geode/CS5530  combination seems to be its modern cousin, and it's very 
popular in single-board computers and some Internet appliances. So it would 
be useful to get the latest X versions working with it.

The current release (not CVS) doesn't find the hardware, and I think this 
is because it expects the ISA version (MediaGX ancestor), not the PCI version.

Is anyone else known to be working on this project right now? I have taken 
a brief look at the sourcecode but haven't got anything working yet. I 
think it should be a fairly simple modification, since the old 3.3.6 code 
for MediaGX works with the new hardware out-of-box. I don't want to 
duplicate anyone else's efforts on this though.

-- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards
Embedded Engineer, Digi-Frame Inc.
Work: http://www.digi-frame.com/
Tel (914) 937-4090 9am-6:30pm M-F ET
Personal: http://www.larwe.com/ http://www.zws.com/



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