[Openchrome-devel] [Bug 91966] No signal to monitor with X and openchrome using VX855 chipset graphics

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91966

--- Comment #233 from Christopher <laserhawk64 at gmail.com> ---
That's not the problem. The problem is that there is a kernel module
(correction, not the kernel itself, but rather the driver for the CS5536
"companion chip"*) that needs modifications compiled into it in order to
(re)activate the IDE header after the BIOS cuts it off.

The necessary alterations are on this page, in the last section at the very
bottom -- http://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/wyse/s10/Linux.shtml -- however,
manual patching is still, quite honestly, well beyond my abilities. I don't
code ;) On top of that, I'm not 100% sure where in Puppy I would put the
patched driver. I would assume that I'd have to modify initrd.gz which would be
kind of a pain, as it's actually a CPIO archive, rather than the GZIP archive
it claims to be by way of extension. (It might actually be both, a CPIO nested
inside of a GZIP. I'm not actually sure.)

Even then, there's a pretty sizable chance that I won't be able to do what I
need to do... I seem to recall having some significant issues getting that
particular system to boot in the first place.

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