I seem to recall that the VESA driver in XFree86 4 did give you a
display on the GXLV, although it's quite slow.

There was/is a Cyrix Media GX driver 4.0 (not sure about 4.1) so the
bulk of the update work may have been done already, mind you it didn't
work at all for me.

--mte

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Lewin A.R.W. Edwards wrote:

>
> >National produce Linux drivers for the Geode/CS5530 for both XFree86 4
> >and 3.3.6, as well as native mode audio drivers (rather than SB
> >emulation that you note on your web page).
> >
> >My understanding is that they are only available to companies NDA with
> >National Semi.
>
> Interesting - I wondered where NS's drivers went (they used to be on a
> publicly-accessible web page; I should have downloaded them while I had a
> chance). So I guess I'm on my own then. I don't want to get the legal
> behemoth lumbering on establishing a relationship with NS, because we don't
> buy anything directly from them and we have no intention of tying ourselves
> to their hardware - at the moment it's cheap and does what we want, but we
> can and will switch to other SBC architectures as our needs vary.
>
> Thanks for the info. I guess I will try some simple hacks on the mediagx
> driver to at least get 4.x working, and I'll release a patch if I do get it
> working.
>
>
> -- 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
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