From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 09:19:58 -0700 Received: from deliverator.sgi.com ([204.94.214.10]:12094 "EHLO deliverator.sgi.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 09:19:45 -0700 Received: from nodin.corp.sgi.com (nodin.corp.sgi.com [192.26.51.193]) by deliverator.sgi.com (980309.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980310.SGI-aspam) via ESMTP id JAA01008 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 09:11:50 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (adi@mr-happy.com) Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by nodin.corp.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/980728.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id JAA67380 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 09:17:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id JAA82244 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 09:16:03 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (adi@mr-happy.com) Received: from brainguy.tc.mtu.edu (brainguy.tc.mtu.edu [141.219.5.85]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id JAA09237 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 09:15:54 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (adi@mr-happy.com) Received: from crow.mr-happy.com (crow.mr-happy.com [172.19.3.81]) by brainguy.tc.mtu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF54A1A196; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 12:15:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: by crow.mr-happy.com (Postfix, from userid 22448) id 93A5F8D58; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 12:15:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:15:35 -0500 From: Andy Isaacson To: michael.j.lewis@db.com Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: SGI-Linux VisualWorkstations Message-ID: <20000725111535.A13121@mr-happy.com> References: <85256927.0048395E.00@nysmtp4001.svc.btco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <85256927.0048395E.00@nysmtp4001.svc.btco.com>; from michael.j.lewis@db.com on Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 02:08:52PM +0100 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 48 01 21 E2 D4 E4 68 D1 B8 DF 39 B2 AF A3 16 B9 X-PGP-Key-URL: http://web.mr-happy.com/~adi/pgp.txt Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 02:08:52PM +0100, michael.j.lewis@db.com wrote: > Has anyone managed to get Linux (any distribution) onto the Visual > Workstation? Personally, had a no. of problems > with the Visual Workstation and my last gasp effort to use the machine > (apart from as a dust magnet) is to run Linux on > them .... any info. pls. let me know. (linux.sgi.com ... used to have a > couple of pages as I recall, but dont think they are there now....) I have the instructions I used up at http://www.lcse.umn.edu/~adi/visws/ The detailed (but only correct for the LCSE setup) instructions are at http://www.lcse.umn.edu/~adi/visws/lcse-setup.html It's not terribly useful, though... we had a lot of problems with our setup and the systems are back to running NT full time. Off the top of my head - XFree86 4.0 fbdev driver had color problems - only the first bank of memory was usable (256 of our 1024 MB) - accessing the floppy or CD-ROM was likely to hang the machine - 2.2.10 was the only kernel I could get running -andy -- Andy Isaacson http://web.mr-happy.com/~adi/