Re: have octane will play?
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Guido Guenther wrote:
> On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 03:28:51AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > So a friend's company is downsizing and he gives me a spiffy looking Octane (-:
> > has two drives but I have not booted it yet because I need an adapter from sgi
> > monitor to svga.
> >
> > Is there any chance of getting Debian and X up on this beast?
> The Octane (SGI IP30) is completely unsupported as far as I know.
> There's currently support for IP22 (SGI Indy/I2), IP32 (O2 - but R5K
> only) and IP27 (Origin 200). None of these systems except for the Indy
> runs XFree86.
Since an O2 frame buffer device appeared very recently, X should be a matter of
compiling XF68_FBDev (unless mouse/keyboard aren't supported yet).
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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