XOs B4 and USB-SVGA adapters

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Sat Jan 26 14:32:50 EST 2008


On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 18:38 +0100, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to use a USB-SVGA adapter based on the SiS 35x chips with a XO 
> Beta4. It seems like even with an external USB hub which is externally 
> powered, the SVGA adapter does not received enough power, which I find 
> strange because it works on other laptops (IBM, Dell, Apple ...).
> 
> Is there any know problem with this revision of the XO and the USB power ?
> 
> Thank you very much in advance for your answer.

The module isn't compiled into the kernel, for starters, because the
OLPC uses a stripped down kernel.  Others have gotten the sisusbvga
module compiled, see the "Rebuilding the Kernel" thread on this list.

Dan





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