SGI Indy newport running X11

[Dennis Grevenstein <dennis.grevenstein@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I'm trying to get Debian Linux running on an Indy R5000 with
XL24 newport graphics. I've downloaded the latest netboot
debian installer and the system installed fine.

My problem is that X11 won't start up. I have already checked
the Xorg documentation and read there that the newport driver
would autosense all the important setting.
my xorg.conf basically only includes this:

Section "Device"
     Identifier "SGI newport"
     Driver "newport"
EndSection

When I startx, I get an error about the newport driver not supporting
a 800x600 resolution, which would be understandable, since AFAIK
the XL24 only does 1280x1024.
Does anybody have a working xorg.conf for this configuration?

thanks,
Dennis

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