Re: Some questions regarding a Decstation 5000/240
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Karsten Merker wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 06:38:41PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > > What is the actual status of using keyboard and monitor or even X on
> > > > that machine under Linux?
> > >
> > > Works everything - Except some Framebuffers - Have a look at
> > > http://decstation.unix-ag.org
> >
> > "Status" at this pages says there's no keyboard/mouse support for this
> > machine. :-(
>
> Michael will have to update the website soon :-). Harald Koerfgen has
> written support for the keyboard on a /240 and ported the PMAG-BA
> framebuffer driver we had written for 2.2.x to the 2.3 kernels. This is
> currently still an unofficial patch and does not yet work 100% (in
> particular, starting X crashes the machine :-( and I am working on fixing
> a few small oddities and getting the PMAGB-B driver to work for 2.3), but
> we are in good hope to show at least a fully working text console on
> LinuxTag in Stuttgart. What kind of video card do you have in your /240
> (PMAG-B, PMAGB-B)?
It has a PMAGB-B.
Another question: What is the best source for a compiled kernel and
especially the debian packages? binary-mipsel at ftp.debian.org seems to
be empty.
> Greetings,
> Karsten
Thanks,
Adrian
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