[gentoo-user] Re: [OT} Intel D2700 processor + NM10 chipset - how to kernel config?

[Francisco Ares]

Hi again.

I've found something, it looks like Intel had outsourced the video graphics
part of this family of processors to Imagination Technologies, using their
PowerVR technology.

Besides this, there are recent posts in a few forums that talks about an
open source driver, on the way.

In Intel's website, I could only find a 32-bit driver, and the hint that it
was extracted from an older SDK.

Meanwhile:

http://community.imgtec.com/developers/powervr/graphics-sdk/

I guess that inside the SDK package there might be its driver also, as
suggested by Intel, going to try it right now.

Best regards,
Francisco


2015-06-23 8:40 GMT-03:00 Francisco Ares <frares@×××××.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I have bought a cheap mini ITX board with an embedded Intel D2700
> processor and NM10 chipset, and the kernel I have built a few months ago
> doesn't even allow text mode console - meanwhile, among other things, I'm
> trying to find and strip out any frame buffer entries in the kernel
> configuration, so that at least a plain text console might be visible.
>
> Also meanwhile, a live CD (kubuntu) managed to get a VGA KDE running (no
> pure text mode console), but only using a large screen monitor, and
> exclusively using HDMI port (the same monitor did not work on VGA, and the
> board does not support DVI), so that at least I could check the full
> specification of the processor (`cat /proc/cpuinfo`) and all of the
> peripherals (`lspci -k`), so that I could build a better suited kernel.
>
> Any specifics on your minds about this hardware?
>
> Thanks!
> Francisco
>