LinuxPPC and Number Nine (SGI) display?

LinuxPPC and Number Nine (SGI) display?

Post by Stephen R. Anders » Wed, 02 Jun 1999 04:00:00



I've just been admiring the Number Nine (Silicon Graphics) flat panel
17" display, but I wonder if it would work with LinuxPPC. It seems to
use a proprietary PCI video card, and I have no idea how hard it might
be to get it to run. Does anyone know? Especially anyone who knows
something about R5?

--Steve Anderson

 
 
 

LinuxPPC and Number Nine (SGI) display?

Post by Ki » Thu, 03 Jun 1999 04:00:00


Quote:>I've just been admiring the Number Nine (Silicon Graphics) flat panel
>17" display

So have I, except, it is 5 months since it was announced, and it still hasn't
shipped for the Mac as far as I know.

At this rate, Apple's soon to be announce Cinema Display seems a better idea.


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LinuxPPC and Number Nine (SGI) display?

Post by Stephen R. Anders » Fri, 11 Jun 1999 04:00:00



Quote:> I've just been admiring the Number Nine (Silicon Graphics) flat panel
> 17" display, but I wonder if it would work with LinuxPPC. It seems to
> use a proprietary PCI video card, and I have no idea how hard it might
> be to get it to run. Does anyone know? Especially anyone who knows
> something about R5?

Pursuing this further, I discover that the NumberNine board
(Revolution IV) is supported by XFree86 (the "XF86_I128" server) on
Intel platforms. What does this mean about the likelihood that support
would/could be available for LinuxPPC R5?

While I don't know that anybody actually has one of these displays
with a PPC system, there are a couple of places (e.g. Outpost) that
list it in their catalog as something that should show up soon....

--Steve Anderson

 
 
 

LinuxPPC and Number Nine (SGI) display?

Post by junk » Mon, 14 Jun 1999 04:00:00


The New Formac Pro-Formance III is based on this Number Nine Card, also
it should have a digital video-connector, should sell for about $300