Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] fbdev fbgen cleanup

[Sven <lu...@dp...>]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 11:42:50AM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> > BTW, does someone know how i can get information about the hardware on a SGI
> > indy runing IRIX, i plan to do a linux install on it next week, but would like
> > to inspectr the box some before doing that. Is there any kind of fbdev working
> > for this kind of hardware ?
> 
> 'hinv' (Hardware INVentory) is the irix command you're looking for.

Yes, that is what i am looking for, as a result, i now know it has a r4600
processor, and an 'indy 8-bit' graphic board :)))

> I know there's some sort of framebuffer support for it; since it doesn't
> have a VGA mode. dunno anything more about it than that.
> the Indy also has the distinction of being the only SGI to have an XFree86
> driver for its video (newport).

Is this newport the same as indy 8-bit ? I had the impressoion that there were
multiple possibilities about it.

> we had one here for a while; and I saw it boot linux; but don't know any
> more than that.

Anyway, thanks for the info ...

Friendly,

Sven Luther