Re: VGA cards on USB or such?
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 13:46 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Hello Allan,
>
> Am 2007-07-26 18:00:18, schrieb Alan Hourihane:
> > You can get a USB 2.0 VGA adapter. They use a SiS chip which is
> > supported by the kernel already.
> >
> > http://www.abccables.com/305-9151.html
> >
> > Alan.
> >
> >
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>
> Nice, I have found it for 109 Euro in France but will look
> for a cheaper place. (Maybe importing fom the USA, since
> this product is Duty-Free in France)
>
> How it is supported?
>
> I have an SBC (Geode, 8 USB-2.0 Ports, 1 IDE, 1 PCI) and
> I can connect a CD-Rom drive too install Debian on it,
> but is the VGA adapter recognized @installtime?
As long as the kernel has the fbdev driver built-in then it should work
at installtime. This is the directory it's built from...
linux/drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/
Alan.
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