Re: Debian Woody on SGI O2 -- SUCCESS

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

Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> Il giorno mar, 16-11-2004 alle 01:35 +0100, Thiemo Seufer ha scritto:
> > Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > and it did booted and mounted the local root filesystem. Great.
> > > 
> > > So, next question: is X working on this machine?
> > 
> > I heard it does. I'd like to hear if it works for you. :-)
> 
> I read about a newport driver but I think it is about a different
> chipset, so I tried the fbdev driver and typed

Newport is the graphics of SGI IP22 aka Indy/Indigo2 XL. O2 is
a framebuffer driver.

[snip]
> Then, I cannot see anything, but X seems to be there, somewhere:
> hattusa:~# netstat -atnp
> Active Internet connections (servers and established)
> Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address
> State       PID/Program name
> tcp        0      0 192.168.2.52:6000       192.168.2.34:3791
> ESTABLISHED1892/X
> tcp        0      0 192.168.2.52:6000       192.168.2.34:3789
> ESTABLISHED1892/X
> 
> where is it? What bpp and geometry should I use?

The driver is still very experimental, AFAIK only the boot-time
resolution and depth will work.


Thiemo