From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:56:55 -0700 Received: from obelix.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de ([134.109.132.55]:57533 "EHLO obelix.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:56:41 -0700 Received: from sunnyboy.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de by obelix.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de with Local SMTP (PP); Thu, 22 Jun 2000 17:56:13 +0200 Received: from scotty.mgnet.de (sulu.csn.tu-chemnitz.de [134.109.96.105]) by sunnyboy.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA11950 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 17:56:10 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (qmail 30371 invoked from network); 22 Jun 2000 15:56:11 -0000 Received: from spock.mgnet.de (HELO scotty.mgnet.de) (192.168.1.4) by scotty.mgnet.de with SMTP; 22 Jun 2000 15:56:11 -0000 Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 17:56:10 +0200 From: Klaus Naumann To: "Robert W. Current, Ph.D." Cc: Linux-MIPS Mailing List Subject: Re: Indy Questions. Message-ID: <20000622175610.A331@spock> Reply-To: spock@mgnet.de References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: ; from current@hel-inc.com on Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 20:11:07 +0200 X-Mailer: Balsa 0.8.0 Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 20:11:07 "Robert W. Current, Ph.D." wrote: > Is there X support at all? > http://oss.sgi.com/mips/mips-howto.html says there is NONE. Yes, there is now one - I'll also update the FAQ today. You may find it at: http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~agx/mipslinux/x/ > http://www.linux.sgi.com/status.html mentions Xsgi running on top of Linux. Better forget about that ;) What I heard it never really worked. > And I've also heard that XFree86 has been hacked to run on the XL frame > buffer, such as what is mentioned on > http://www.orcawerks.com/sgi/irix/linux.html I don't know about that one. But I recommend the one mentioned above anyway. It's based up on XFree86 4.0 and is maintained. > Also, there seems to be nothing at all on ftp://oss.sgi.com/ anymore, where > has it all moved to? That must be you - the project ftp server is still oss.sgi.com. See ftp://oss.sgi.com/pub/linux/mips/ - it's all there. CU, Klaus -- Full Name : Klaus Naumann | (http://www.mgnet.de/) (Germany) Nickname : Spock | Org.: Mad Guys Network Phone / FAX : ++49/177/7862964 | E-Mail: (spock@mgnet.de) PGP Key : www.mgnet.de/keys/key_spock.txt