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Martin Knoblauch writes:
...
 >  this brings up the question: do we already have drivers for
 > the textport? Not to speak of an X-Server? How are we (SGI)
 > going to handle this? As far as I know we never published
 > the hardware dependent parts on the X11 distribution, did we?
...

    With management authorization, I provided the technical details
for the graphics hardware (and all the other Indy hardware) to David
Miller, who I believe got a textport driver working.