Re: Indy or Alpha the "easier" platform? Gnome?

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Ralph Aichinger wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 20:20, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> 
> > If the Indy has the 8 or 24 bit entry level graphics, it should
> > work fine. The "hinv" command tells.
> 
> IDE writes something about "Indy 24bit",

That's ok.

> I am still waiting 
> for the machine to come up again to run "hinv", there are
> several timeouts before it comes up (non-existing NFS hosts).

hinv is also available as a firmware command.

[snip]
> Is most of the hardware in this box supported by Linux, e.g.
> sound and the video input? 

Sound output works (module hal2), VINO needs still some Kernel
work.


Thiemo