Re: question about HP Visualize B2000
> Il giorno 12/mag/2015, alle ore 01:37, Grant Grundler <grantgrundler@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Claudio Cailotto
> <claudio.cailotto@alice.it> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I’m Claudio and I write from Verona/Italy.
>>
>> I need a suggestion about an old HP PARISC workstation ( B2000 ) that I wish restore to new life
>>
>> with Debian release.
>>
>> I’have install , of course , some release of Debian ( from 5 to 7 ) and some OpenBsd and Gentoo.
>>
>> All setting it’s ok : partitions on the HDD’s ; root; time; net on DHCP etc etc... BUT I can’t run X !!!!
>
> Claudio,
> You need to use a "frame buffer" (stifb?) driver - this is all
> software graphics - no HW acceleration. I used a B2000 as my desktop
> (running hppa-linux with X) over 10 years ago.
>
> Please search the the linux-parisc mailing list archives (see
> https://parisc.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page for more info), I'm
> we've posted details of xorg.config files/etc that worked on B2000.
>
> And even if the original parisc-linux.org pages are obsolete, still
> useful to read so you know what once-upon-a-time worked:
> http://www.parisc-linux.org/faq/graphics-howto.html
>
> cheers,
> grant
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