[Libdlo] DisplayLink on QNAP TS-119 ARM box

[Phil Endecott]

Hi Everyone,

I thought some of you might be interested to know that I have got my 
MiMo to work with my new QNAP TS-119.  That's a smallish box with a 1.2 
GHz Marvell ARM chip and 512 MB of RAM, sold for network attached 
storage but usable for anything since Debian can be installed on it.  
Photo here:

     http://chezphil.org/tmp/mimo_qnap.jpeg

All I had to do was to build a 2.6.33.2 vanilla kernel with udlfb and 
fbcon enabled (one good thing about this box is that it's fast enough 
to do this sort of thing natively) and it just works.  Well, I had to 
load fbcon and getty manually; I'll have to work out the proper way to 
make that happen when it boots.  Actually I was quite surprised that it 
picked up the USB keyboard as "half of a console"; I was expecting some 
additional pain to make that work.  So thanks to everyone who has made 
this work.  I'm aware that there are newer kernel modules and I'll 
probably experiment with them at some point.

(The little thing to the left in the photo is a Ben NanoNote, a 330 MHz 
MIPS-powered gadget currently running OpenWRT, but to be Debianised 
ASAP.  It has a USB device controller and is configured to appear as a 
USB ethernet adaptor to whatever it's plugged in to.  It's a fun toy 
but it's hard to think of real applications for it.)


Regards,  Phil.