Subject: Re: status of indy?
To: vik <vik@progsoc.org>
From: Rafal Boni <rafal.boni@eDial.com>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 05/31/2002 00:59:02
In message <3CF6FD64.5060301@progsoc.org>, you write: 

-> I've got an indy I'm considering putting netBSD on it; am wondering what 
-> the status is; what kind of things are running and what isn't; e.g. does 
-> X-windows go?

The built-in ethernet and SCSI work fine, as do the serial ports; there 
are no drivers for mouse and keyboard, which makes X rather difficult;
in theory the newport X server in XFree should work on the Indy if we
had mouse/keyboard driver and if the Indy had a Newport graphics adapter.

Most of the media features (audio, IndyCam, Vino video, Cosmo compression,
etc) are not supported right now.

IOW, it'd make a nice (if slow) server box, but probably not a great desk-
top box.

--rafal

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Rafal Boni                                              rafal.boni@eDial.com
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