From: Mat Withers <mat@minus-9.com>
To: Timothy Daly <remote_bob@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: indigo2 video
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 11:20:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020216112058.C8787@minus-9.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020216105239.5160.qmail@web10208.mail.yahoo.com>; from remote_bob@yahoo.com on Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 02:52:39 -0800
Timothy Daly (remote_bob@yahoo.com) wrote:
>
> Hi all. :)
>
> AFAIK, none of the SGI graphics cards for the indigo2 are yet
> supported by linux or X. However, it recently struck me, these
> machines have EISA slots. It might be pretty straightforward to use
> an old EISA card like an ATI Mach32 instead. Sure, it's not as cool
> as an Impact card, but it's perfectly adequate for emacs.
>
> Is this a good idea? How would you estimate the effort involved?
>
I was also wondering this. On the intel architecture EISA slots also supported ISA cards. Is this also the case on the Indigo 2 ? or are the EISA slots a bit more "non-standard".
Just a thought
Mat
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-16 12:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-16 10:52 indigo2 video Timothy Daly
2002-02-16 11:20 ` Mat Withers [this message]
2002-02-16 17:31 ` Andrew R. Baker
2002-02-16 20:55 ` Jim Paris
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