Re: indigo2 video

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Timothy Daly (remote_bob@yahoo.com) wrote:
> 
> Hi all. :)  
> 
> AFAIK, none of the SGI graphics cards for the indigo2 are yet
> supported by linux or X.  However, it recently struck me, these
> machines have EISA slots.  It might be pretty straightforward to use
> an old EISA card like an ATI Mach32 instead.  Sure, it's not as cool
> as an Impact card, but it's perfectly adequate for emacs.
> 
> Is this a good idea? How would you estimate the effort involved?
>

I was also wondering this. On the intel architecture EISA slots also supported ISA cards. Is this also the case on the Indigo 2 ? or are the EISA slots a bit more "non-standard".

Just a thought

Mat

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