Re: [Linux-fbdev-users] CT65550 / chipsfb driver status...

[Antonino A. D. <ad...@ho...>]

On Friday 22 October 2004 17:06, Laurence Abbott wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What is the current status of the driver for the Chips and Technologies
> 65550 chipset? I can only find mentions of it from a couple of years
> back with regard to a new version of the driver (links to that driver no
> longer work).

There is a chipsfb driver in 2.6 which looks like is properly coded.

>
> I have recently acquired a Keycorp K57 LCD monitor with a dedicated
> graphics card based on the CT65550 chip, and I'm hoping to get this
> working as a basic framebuffer device.
>
> I believe the current driver only works on PPC architecture but with a
> bit of tweaking, I managed to compile the chipsfb module on the ix86
> machine containing the card.
>
> Is this ever likely to work?! Is it likely to work with the VESA driver?

Possibly, as long it's VESA VBE Version 2.0 at least. And I think the
ct65550 does have the 2.0 version.

> At present, I cannot even see the card with lspci, although I'm not
> convinced that it is seated correctly: have yet to check on that.

That's the first thing you need to do, make sure that the device
is detected first.  Then try vesafb.

Tony