[rescue] HP9000/C100

Mike Nicewonger rescue at sunhelp.org
Wed Dec 12 18:24:54 CST 2001


On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, you wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 09:36:41PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > > Linux runs on the C100 (and other PA-RISC machines):
> > > 
> > > c100:~# uname -a
> > > Linux c100 2.4.16-pa11 #176 Tue Dec 4 22:49:52 MET 2001 parisc unknown
> > 
> >   Oh, cool!  Any X support yet, or is it too early for that?
> 
> depends on the graphics board. My C100 has a HCRX8 graphics boards, which
> is supported by the kernel framebuffer driver. And X is able to use this
> framebuffer driver (unaccelerated at the moment). The driver currently
> supports onboard 712/715new/B1xx/Cxxx graphics, Visualize-EG GSC cards,
> HCRX8 and HCRX24. FX cards aren't supported, because I don't have docs 
> for them, but I'm working on getting them. 710 and 715/old onboard works
> with a newer kernel, which is not on the 0.9.3 ISO. 
> 
This is terrific news! the ISO released yesterday, does it include the SCSI
patch you mentioned earlier or do I need to pass that as a boot arg still??
Also, is the HCRX24 fully 24 bit or is it running as an emulated HCRX8?

Mike N



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