From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mgw-x4.nokia.com (mgw-x4.nokia.com [131.228.20.27]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FC854829 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 04:26:02 -0700 (MST) Received: from esvir04nok.ntc.nokia.com (esvir04nokt.ntc.nokia.com [172.21.143.36]) by mgw-x4.nokia.com (Switch-2.2.1/Switch-2.2.0) with ESMTP id g9SBQFB28011 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:26:15 +0200 (EET) Received: from esebh002.NOE.Nokia.com (unverified) by esvir04nok.ntc.nokia.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.5) with ESMTP id for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:25:58 +0200 Received: from aurinko.ntc.nokia.com (aurinko.ntc.nokia.com [172.22.105.49]) by trinms01.ntc.nokia.com with ESMTP (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA29727 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:25:53 +0200 (EET) Received: (from mnahkola@localhost) by aurinko.ntc.nokia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g9SBPqf10378 for parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:25:53 +0200 (EET) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:25:52 +0200 From: Nahkola Mikko To: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Message-ID: <20021028112551.GR15137@aurinko.ntc.nokia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: [parisc-linux] framebuffer depth and other issues ... Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: I was wondering ... the VIS-EG is about as close to "fully supported" as they get, right? Well, I have one of those in a C240 and ... well, the system is otherwise just fine, even KDE is fairly responsive and all that, but there's a shortage of available colors. (anyone know of a good lowcolor icon theme? I can't seem to find such in Debian... anyone?) Is it possible to get more than 8 bpp out of a VIS-EG? How would I go about that, do I need to say something like "stifb:bpp:foo" to the kernel or is fbset enough? How much of a difference is there between VIS-EG/PCI (A4977A) and VIS-EG/GSC (A4450A) in this regard? I have an A4450A in there at the moment. HP-UX seems to find a whole lot of differences and such ... and I did run GNOME/HP-UX once on a VIS-EG/PCI without running out of colors but then again HP-UX does color recovery and acceleration and all that on those... Then, is an Ati Mach64 likely to work? I mean, it should be pretty well-supported in i386 ... and I've heard rumors about Sun-branded Mach64s too, so that would point to least some models getting by without a PC BIOS. Third, what's the thing with $TERM and the serial console? I have interesting problems with the 70096, even in vt100-emulation mode the Debian installer was, um, interesting. Doesn't anyone else want to use the HP dumb-terminal hardware with Linux? And as an aside, how reliable is the disk stuff nowadays? Would it make any sense to run a file server on Linux/hppa yet? I mean, something like a stack of A3312As, software-RAID and NFS ... is it likely to work? How about performance, compared to HP-UX, for example? (yes, I'd expect HP-UX to be somewhat better, but by how much?) -- Mikko Nahkola