Since the topic sort of changed, I changed the subject. I have been beating myself up trying to get VGA and USB at the same time from a strongarm pda decvice running linux. I have been working on a Ipaq 3870 with a dual pcmcia sleeve since January this year to this end. I currently have the Ratoc USB Host CF card in a pcmcia adapter and the two TinyX supported pcmcia VGA cards. The HP VGA-out card and the Colorgraphics Voyager VGA. I have gotten all of this working on familiar - but not at the same time. First off, I got the Ratoc card running well and have the usb-ps2 adapter connected to my twiddler 2 and it works great. The HP VGA-out card works great. The graphics look great and it runs fast. The Colorgraphics Voyager VGA card looks like crap. There is a strange red feedback effect when there is white on the screen and there are disabled pixels on the screen. When you move the mouse, the turned-off pixels change randomly. So avoid the Colorgraphics VGA card if you go the pcmcia route. The problem is I cannot use both USB and VGA at the same time. I think its a problem with the kernel because I have to recompile the kernel to add in 'preliminary USB filesystem' support. As soon as I install the new kernel, the video cards stop working and just show static or stange colors. If anyone has suggestions, I have CVS write accesss to the 2.4 kernel for familiar. On the toshiba vga/usb adapter, I have exchanged several emaiuls with Spyro who is the main guy working on the Toshiba e740/750/800 port. External VGA doesn't work. He claims it will work one day. He has the USB working partially I believe. I would sell all the ipaq gear immediately if it did work. Thats my experience so far with VGA and USB on a strongarm PDA. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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