VGA external on OLPC

[Seth Woodworth]

By not too hard, I meant, not completely impossible.  I was given a little
bit of info on the board because I promised Wad that I wouldn't get other
people to bother him about it :S

At least I didn't post the hardware list to my blog!

Seth
btw, I'm whyxo.com

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Paul Fox <pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us> wrote:

> martin wrote:
>  > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:40 AM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org>
> wrote:
>  > >  > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Remote_display#Binaries
>  > >  Can you be more specific as to what USB video adapters
>  > >  this might work with ?
>  >
>  > It's packaged in most distros (F7, recent Ubuntus), so `man sisusb` or
>  > `man sisusbvga` should give an passable overview. The author keeps a
>  > good page:
>  >
>  >   http://www.winischhofer.eu/linuxsisusbvga.shtml
>  >
>
>
> how would one go about influencing which driver modules, for
> "accessory" peripherals like this, get built as a matter of
> course for new kernels?
>
> it seems to me that there's a (perhaps minor, but real) need for
> builds of drivers that don't necessarily get packaged on every
> XO, but which are available somewhere, for every kernel.  this
> usb vga thing is a good example.  others which keep coming up on
> the forums are things like bluetooth support, and the full set of
> usb serial dongles.  i built and made available the bluetooth and
> usb serial modules for the use of some G1G1 folks, but that
> tarball will go stale pretty quickly when the kernel moves on.
>
> there are other equally "optional" modules (like usb audio
> support) which _do_ get built and installed by default.  seems like
> there might be a win-win possible by separating "what to build"
> from "what to install" -- the default install could shrink, and
> the flexibility for users would go up.
>
> (there may be a trac item already on this -- i admit to not
> looking.)
>
> paul
> =---------------------
>  paul fox, pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 53.6
> degrees)
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