[ale] Cobalt RaQ LCD and Linux

Wed Mar 1 12:49:28 EST 2006

I've been up and down the interweb looking for information on this problem, and already have that patch applied. Thanks though. 

I notice that when I boot the Cobalt with the (Cobalt-ROM upgraded) ROM kernel, the LCD utilities work fine. Under 2.6.15.4 however, they do not. Right now I'm testing to see if it stopped working between 2.4 and 2.6, or between 2.6.15 and 2.6.15.4.

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Thus Spake Chris Ricker <kaboom at oobleck.net>:
Wed, 1 Mar 2006 10:52:42 -0500 (EST)

> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Christopher R. Curzio wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone have any experience with non-Cobalt Linux on a RaQ, and 
> > specifically, getting the LCD to work? I have a fully-functional 
> > installation of Slackware 10.2 on my RaQ4i (running Linux 2.6.15.4), and 
> > the only thing left to get working is the LCD.
> > 
> > I've been screwing around all day with everything I can find (the 
> > panel-utils package from the restore disc, lcdutils from Debian, 
> > cobalt-panel-utils from Gentoo), and have had no luck. The kernel is 
> > aware of the LCD being present insofar as /proc/cobalt/lcd (and 
> > /proc/lcd for that matter) can accurately output the contents of the 
> > LCD, but as far as actually writing data TO the LCD, nothing works. All 
> > of the tools I tried won't recognize that the device exists.
> 
> Hmm, it's been a long time since I've dinked around with Cobalts
> 
> Do you also have one of the patch clusters for Cobalt support included 
> in your kernel? I can't remember if you have to have the patches just to 
> get /proc/cobalt/* or not, but I do remember having to patch to get write 
> access to the lcd
> 
> Check out 
> <ftp://www.404ster.com/pub/gentoo-stuff/patches/cobalt-kernel-2.6.x/> for 
> a Gentoo-oriented one
> 
> later,
> chris
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