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 > Personal: http://www.larwe.com/ http://www.zws.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Xpert mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert > _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
