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

[Carl W. S. <ch...@re...>]

> > 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.

maybe. the two video board models I know about, are the 8-bit, and the
24-bit. dunno which is supported, or how well. we had one of each kind of
board, but I don't remember ever actually running linux/X on the Indy we
had; tho we did use the console. 
we just used SGI's X server for any GUI stuff.

Carl Sodertstrom.
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