[N.B., I do not subscribe to -mips yet; please follow-up to -devel] On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 10:30:51AM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 01:49:02PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > I'd be willing to *become* one of the Debian MIPS folks for a box like > > this. > > > > /me mumbles something about XFree86 4.0 on MIPS > > :) Mips is not the problem - The GFX Board is the Problem - The > Indigo2 have mostly the "Impact" series of GFX Board which are OpenGL > accelerated in Hardware - There are NO docs at all concerning these > Boards so there is currently not much we can do to get an X Server > on the Indigo2 - Probably there are some folks who could probably > give out the SGI X Server Source with an NDA or at least > give a contact person for dumb questions but i have no clue. Well, in the spirit of honesty I must confess I've never been a device driver hacker. I was hoping to teach myself assembly using this machine, however. Anyway, while gravely disappointing, the box is not worthless, not even for XFree86 development. There is more to X than the X server, and there's no reason to believe that we couldn't at least get the libraries and clients going. I remain interested in the machine, even with this caveat. -- G. Branden Robinson | The basic test of freedom is perhaps Debian GNU/Linux | less in what we are free to do than in branden@debian.org | what we are free not to do. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Eric Hoffer
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