XFree XZ support

XFree XZ support

[Skippie]

hi,

I'm considdering installing debian on my SGI Indy
but I have a little question.

My indy has a R5000 cpu
and a XZ graphics card.

I cant find a conclusif answer if that graphics card is suppordet
on the newest XFree 4.2.1 server.

does anyone have experience installing X on a system whist this kind
of configuration?

thanks in advance.

Greetz
Skippie
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Re: XFree XZ support

[Guido Guenther]

Hi Skippie,
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:06:43AM +0100, Skippie wrote:
> I'm considdering installing debian on my SGI Indy
> but I have a little question.
> 
> My indy has a R5000 cpu
> and a XZ graphics card.
> 
> I cant find a conclusif answer if that graphics card is suppordet
> on the newest XFree 4.2.1 server.
No. Help on getting this to work is appreciated.
 -- Guido

Re: XFree XZ support

[Skippie]

> Hi Skippie,
>
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:06:43AM +0100, Skippie wrote:
> > I'm considdering installing debian on my SGI Indy
> > but I have a little question.
> >
> > My indy has a R5000 cpu
> > and a XZ graphics card.
> >
> > I cant find a conclusif answer if that graphics card is suppordet
> > on the newest XFree 4.2.1 server.
>
> No. Help on getting this to work is appreciated.
>  -- Guido

could it than be possible to use fbdev for the xz card, or is this also
unsupported?

if it is possible, anny sugestions?

thanks

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Greetz
Skippie
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Re: XFree XZ support

[Ralf Baechle]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 02:15:41PM +0100, Skippie wrote:

> could it than be possible to use fbdev for the xz card, or is this also
> unsupported?

This is a card that's magnitudes too complex to support.  Even with docs
it was to hard.  Something as trivial as printing a character to the
screen involves writing firmware for the i860 processor(s) of the XZ.

  Ralf

Re: XFree XZ support

[Skippie]

> This is a card that's magnitudes too complex to support.  Even with docs
> it was to hard.  Something as trivial as printing a character to the
> screen involves writing firmware for the i860 processor(s) of the XZ.
>
>   Ralf

I will have to wait until there is Xfree support for this card.
(if this will ever be)

Thanks for all the reactions.

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Greetz
Skippie
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Re: XFree XZ support

[ilya]

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Hold it there. I thought Impacts are the ones with i860...
You were either lying to me back then, or now.

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:32:36PM +0100, Skippie wrote:
> > This is a card that's magnitudes too complex to support.  Even with docs
> > it was to hard.  Something as trivial as printing a character to the
> > screen involves writing firmware for the i860 processor(s) of the XZ.
> >
> >   Ralf
> 
> I will have to wait until there is Xfree support for this card.
> (if this will ever be)
> 
> Thanks for all the reactions.
> 
> --
> Greetz
> Skippie
> --
> mail: skippie@skynet.be
> 

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Re: XFree XZ support

[Ralf Baechle]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 06:46:11PM -0800, ilya@theIlya.com wrote:

> Hold it there. I thought Impacts are the ones with i860...
> You were either lying to me back then, or now.

Watch your words.

The Reality series are using upto about a dozen i860s in the gfx pipeline.
XZ and Impact is a relativly simple gfx in comparison - I'm told there is
about a dozen different graphics platforms that share nothing but the
basic architecture and all are marketed as XZ.  I just hope that isn't
true ...

  Ralf

Re: XFree XZ support

[ilya]

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Sorry. I take back "lying" part.

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:48:14AM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 06:46:11PM -0800, ilya@theIlya.com wrote:
> 
> > Hold it there. I thought Impacts are the ones with i860...
> > You were either lying to me back then, or now.
> 
> Watch your words.
> 
> The Reality series are using upto about a dozen i860s in the gfx pipeline.
> XZ and Impact is a relativly simple gfx in comparison - I'm told there is
> about a dozen different graphics platforms that share nothing but the
> basic architecture and all are marketed as XZ.  I just hope that isn't
> true ...
> 
>   Ralf
> 

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