Hi and installation success on indy r5k
Hi everyone
I am new here
I always wanted to have Indy since I was a kid in high school but it was
always too expensive.
Until now.
So I got one off eBay, and then beefed it up a little:
Indy R5000 180MHz, 512KB SC
256MB RAM
9GB IBM SCSI hard disk
Indy 8-bit graphics (yeah, I have to buy 24 bit one :))
I have successfully installed woody 3.0.19 from tftpboot.img
I was amazed how easy it was. (Compared to installing debian on
Sparcstation IPC a year ago.)
Problems I encountered (all known bugs AFAIK):
- update-menus crashes, recompiling it with -static helped
- sometimes gnome-session or gnome-panel crashes (but I dont feel like
recompiling gnome)
- most of pixmaps are corrupted in gnome, gtk apps and also in icewm
- palette is not restored properly when leaving X (both in X that comes
with debian (4.1.something ?) and 4.2 I compiled from source
XFree86 contains compiled in drivers for all PC graphics cards and that
adds lots of bloat. Just by removing them (and input drivers except
mouse) I slimmed XFree86 from 10 to 6 MB. Thats 4MB more for
applications (and once I had computer with 64KB of memory)!
here is my host.def
#define BuildServersOnly YES
#define XF86CardDrivers newport
#define XInputDrivers mouse void
#define LinuxDistribution LinuxDebian
#define BuildXF86DRI YES
#define DoLoadableServer NO
#define XFree86Devel YES
#define MakeDllModules YES
#define XF86Server YES
#define XnestServer NO
#define XVirtualFramebufferServer NO
#define XprtServer NO
#define XF86VgaHw NO
#define XF1Bpp NO
#define XF4Bpp NO
#define BuildScreenSaverExt NO
#define BuildPexExt NO
#define BuildXinerama NO
#define BuildGlxExt YES
I suppose more stuff can be disabled to make it even smaller.
I am now converting sgi hardware docs from postscript to PDF and I will
read them and then try to help.
There are couple of ex-SGI guys at my workplace, I'll track them and
I'll extract their brain contents somehow (it reminds me of Starship
Troopers).
--
Dominik Behr
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