Xorg Accelerated Driver for Chips 65550 in PowerBook 3400c
Stan Johnson <[email protected]> Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:48:45 +0000
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc |
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Hello,
I'm looking for an accelerated Xorg driver for the Chips 65550 video
card in a PowerBook 3400c. When installed, the driver would be in a
location such as "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/chips_drv.so".
Perhaps the Xorg Chips driver has been discontinued? If yes, is there an
older or alternate driver that might work?
I have had some success using video=ofonly, which appears to use the
fbdev driver, but I would like to use an Xorg accelerated driver if one
is available.
I found this page:
https://www.x.org/wiki/Projects/Drivers/
However, there is no information about where to download the binary or
source for the chips driver.
These Debian SID packages are associated with other display drivers:
Debian Package Filename
xserver-xorg-video-ati /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ati_drv.so
xserver-xorg-video-fbdev /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fbdev_drv.so
xserver-xorg-video-radeon /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so
xserver-xorg-video-vesa /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so
So I would expect the Chips 65550 ("chips" or "ct-65550") driver to be
in a package called "xserver-xorg-video-chips" or something similar, if
the driver hasn't been discontinued.
I sent a message to the Xorg maintainer of the chips driver, Egbert
Eich, but I haven't received a response.
Chips 65550 is enabled in the kernel:
# fgrep 65550 .config
CONFIG_FB_CT65550=y
Thanks for any information, and please avoid flames if there's something
basic that I'm overlooking here.
-Stan Johnson