From: Karsten Merker <karsten@excalibur.cologne.de>
To: "Smith, Todd" <Todd.Smith@camc.org>
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: DECstation
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 04:36:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020622043657.B253@excalibur.cologne.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1020621225833.2531B-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl>; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 11:06:19PM +0200
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 11:06:19PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Smith, Todd wrote:
>
> > I was curious about the DECstation 5000/133 and a graphical console.
>
> The system should be fine -- basically all I/O ASIC based systems should
> work, though not all devices have been supplied with drivers yet.
>
> You should be able to use X11 with an XF86_FBDev Xserver on a PMAG-B (CX)
> or a PMAGB-B (HX) display adapter (I wasn't able to try myself so far
> though). For other display adapters, the answer is either "not yet" or
> "no way".
Graphical console on PMAG-B and PMAGB-B works fine.
X works in principle, too, i.e. you get graphical output and you can
use the mouse (with the help of gpm's repeater mode), but the keyboard
support within X is broken.
Regards,
Karsten
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-21 13:56 DECstation Smith, Todd
2002-06-21 21:06 ` DECstation Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-06-21 21:17 ` DECstation Jan-Benedict Glaw
2002-06-21 22:46 ` DECstation Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-06-22 7:41 ` DECstation Jan-Benedict Glaw
2002-06-22 2:36 ` Karsten Merker [this message]
2002-06-22 8:00 ` DECstation Jan-Benedict Glaw
2002-06-24 7:19 ` DECstation Maciej W. Rozycki
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2002-06-21 21:55 DECstation Smith, Todd
2002-06-21 13:58 DECstation Smith, Todd
2002-06-21 21:18 ` DECstation Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-06-20 17:50 DECstation Smith, Todd
2002-06-21 7:46 ` DECstation Maciej W. Rozycki
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