usb to VGA

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Michael Durkin <kc7noa at gmail.com> wrote:
> I did open it up ... and it has printed on the largest IC
>
> Fresco Logic
> FL2000

After a quick googling, I don't see any drivers for Linux.  You'll
have to talk to the manufacturer to see if they are working on a Linux
driver and if not, see if they would be able to release documentation
or sample code so you could write a driver.

Alex

>
> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Michael Durkin <kc7noa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Yea .. im looking for Xorg or KMS drivers for it ... i dont think
>>> there are any yet ... and im hopeing some one would be interested in
>>> doing so ...
>>
>> You'll need to find out what chip it uses.  There is pretty good KMS
>> support for displaylink-based devices, at least the earlier versions.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Alan Coopersmith
>>> <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>> On 05/28/14 10:18 AM, Michael Durkin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Would this be the right list to ask about Fresco Logic's FL2000 USB to
>>>>> VGA adapter?
>>>>>
>>>>> Iv been on a few ML now with being told its the wrong place ...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Depends what you want to ask - general questions about it are mostly off
>>>> topic, questions about using it with Xorg would be on topic.  (Though I
>>>> have no idea if anyone's written an Xorg or KMS driver for it, since this
>>>> is the first I've heard of it.)
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>         -Alan Coopersmith-              alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
>>>>          Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
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