From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5M2VEnC013997 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 19:31:14 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5M2VElw013996 for linux-mips-outgoing; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 19:31:14 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from post.webmailer.de (natwar.webmailer.de [192.67.198.70]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g5M2V8nC013993 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 19:31:09 -0700 Received: from excalibur.cologne.de (p50850F61.dip.t-dialin.net [80.133.15.97]) by post.webmailer.de (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA09456; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 04:34:08 +0200 (MEST) Received: from karsten by excalibur.cologne.de with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17Lall-0003Oh-00; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 04:36:57 +0200 Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 04:36:57 +0200 From: Karsten Merker To: "Smith, Todd" Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: DECstation Message-ID: <20020622043657.B253@excalibur.cologne.de> Mail-Followup-To: Karsten Merker , "Smith, Todd" , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com References: <490E0430C3C72046ACF7F18B7CD76A2A568B98@KES.camcare.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 11:06:19PM +0200 X-No-Archive: yes Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk 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 -- #include Nach Paragraph 28 Abs. 3 Bundesdatenschutzgesetz widerspreche ich der Nutzung oder Uebermittlung meiner Daten fuer Werbezwecke oder fuer die Markt- oder Meinungsforschung.