From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id XAA09034; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 23:38:15 -0700 Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id XAA16244 for linux-list; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 23:37:58 -0700 Received: from morgaine.engr.sgi.com (morgaine.engr.sgi.com [130.62.16.64]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id XAA16240 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 23:37:56 -0700 Received: from neteng.engr.sgi.com (neteng.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.10]) by morgaine.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id XAA16386 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 23:37:16 -0700 Received: from localhost (lm@localhost) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via SMTP id XAA09017; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 23:37:15 -0700 Message-Id: <199706180637.XAA09017@neteng.engr.sgi.com> To: jwiede@blammo.engr.sgi.com (John Wiederhirn) From: lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy) cc: linux@morgaine.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: Good news: no more begging for HW Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 23:37:15 -0700 Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk : There are some very serious issues which come up even getting Xfree to a : moderate level of acceleration. How about to a simple level of working? Without any acceleration? For most people, just having xterms and netscape working is enough. I'm not a graphics or X person. Could someone who knows SGI's gfx devices tell us how hard it would be to make the basics work? Thanks. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <199706180637.XAA09017@neteng.engr.sgi.com> From: lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy) Subject: Re: Good news: no more begging for HW Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 23:37:15 -0700 Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com To: John Wiederhirn Cc: linux@morgaine.engr.sgi.com Message-ID: <19970618063715.5I4Itzzjmt4jzZ0cGUofKHA8Cfdsnzf1F_jrI2kbmrc@z> : There are some very serious issues which come up even getting Xfree to a : moderate level of acceleration. How about to a simple level of working? Without any acceleration? For most people, just having xterms and netscape working is enough. I'm not a graphics or X person. Could someone who knows SGI's gfx devices tell us how hard it would be to make the basics work? Thanks.