VGA external on OLPC

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 13.05.2008, at 17:25, Tom Hoffman wrote:

> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Frank Ch. Eigler <fche at redhat.com>  
> wrote:
>> Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org> writes:
>>
>>> Note there are USB display adapters (I have one in my hand as I  
>>> write
>>> this); I'd love to see someone working on X.org drivers for it.   
>>> [...]
>>
>> The sisusb-based USB display adapters have both kernel and x.org
>> drivers today.
>
> Yes, I bought one of these and tried to get it going.  I couldn't find
> any reason why it shouldn't work with the standard drivers, but the
> whole process of simply trying to get the drivers from the standard
> tree compiled and on my XO wore out my patience.  Putting the right
> drivers (usb2vga and a couple dependencies, iirc) in a XO kernel
> package would be a big help.


Did you try the binaries?

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Remote_display#Binaries

- Bert -