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Just wondering if anybody is running Linux on their Indy? Or that
blasphemy?
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Gerhard Lenerz
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| Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 9:13 pm Post subject:
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On Fri, 05 May 2006 17:13:39 -0400, AlbaClause wrote:
| Quote: | Just wondering if anybody is running Linux on their Indy? Or that
blasphemy?
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It is some kind of blasphemy... but it should work. What apparently also
seems to work quite well is NetBSD. A friend of mine has been running
various versions of that during the last ~2 years on an Indy / Challenge S.
Note though that free OSes will most likely not give you full hardware
support.
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Toni Grass
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AlbaClause wrote:
| Quote: | Just wondering if anybody is running Linux on their Indy? Or that
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Yes. But anyway I heard it should work.
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-ks
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| Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 1:15 am Post subject:
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AlbaClause <you@cogeco.ca> wrote in news:QbP6g.70471$fd.1256
@read2.cgocable.net:
| Quote: | Just wondering if anybody is running Linux on their Indy? Or that
blasphemy?
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Why would you want to?? Stick with what works...IRIX
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You
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| Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 1:23 am Post subject:
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Toni Grass wrote:
| Quote: | AlbaClause wrote:
Just wondering if anybody is running Linux on their Indy? Or that
blasphemy?
Yes. But anyway I heard it should work.
Toni
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I'm actually running Debian Sarge on my Indy at the moment. Mostly because
I don't have IRIX to run on it. Regardless, I was just wondering if
anybody else was using Linux on the Indy, as I have some questions about
VINO and using the 'video in' ports on the Indy.
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Emmanuel Florac
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| Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 8:01 am Post subject:
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Le Fri, 05 May 2006 21:23:34 -0400, AlbaClause a écrit :
| Quote: | I was just wondering if
anybody else was using Linux on the Indy, as I have some questions about
VINO and using the 'video in' ports on the Indy.
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AFAIK, you can't use VINO at all with Linux (or *BSD). You need IRIX for
that.
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You
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| Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 3:24 pm Post subject:
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Emmanuel Florac wrote:
| Quote: | Le Fri, 05 May 2006 21:23:34 -0400, AlbaClause a écrit :
I was just wondering if
anybody else was using Linux on the Indy, as I have some questions about
VINO and using the 'video in' ports on the Indy.
AFAIK, you can't use VINO at all with Linux (or *BSD). You need IRIX for
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That's what I had heard as well, but then I found this
http://www.linux-mips.org/~ladis/vino/vino.html
I played around with it for a while and managed to get a very dark iage from
my IndyCam.
There's also this http://koti.mbnet.fi/~turja/vino/
Thanks
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John Thompson
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| Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 7:05 pm Post subject:
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On 2006-05-05, AlbaClause <you@cogeco.ca> wrote:
| Quote: | Just wondering if anybody is running Linux on their Indy? Or that
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I had Debian-mips running on an Indy for a while, but found it
unsastisfactory. The Newport X server is severely lacking in
functionality.
If you don't need X, it should work fine.
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You
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| Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 8:52 pm Post subject:
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John Thompson wrote:
| Quote: | On 2006-05-05, AlbaClause <you@cogeco.ca> wrote:
Just wondering if anybody is running Linux on their Indy? Or that
blasphemy?
I had Debian-mips running on an Indy for a while, but found it
unsastisfactory. The Newport X server is severely lacking in
functionality.
If you don't need X, it should work fine.
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I'm running a web server on my Indy. Using Debian Sarge with Apache, and
it runs quite satisfactorily. I'm also using my Indy as an NFS fileshare
for my PC Linux box. Again, I'm quite satisfied with the performance.
As for X, I have Gnome and Blackbox installed on my Indy, which I use via
XDMCP on my PC Linux Box. Gnome runs really slowly, as I need to upgrade
the RAM on my Indy. Blackbox works quite well with the limited memory
resources however.
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Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler
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| Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 3:48 am Post subject:
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In article <Rls8g.36392$Hk1.10478@read1.cgocable.net>,
AlbaClause <you@cogeco.ca> wrote:
: Gnome runs really slowly, as I need to upgrade
: the RAM on my Indy. Blackbox works quite well with the limited memory
: resources however.
You should try xfce4, it's very lightweight but is a lot more of a desktop
environment than plain 'ol window managers.
As a bonus, it works quite well on IRIX. Much easier to compile and more stable
than KDE at least.
Cheers - Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler :)
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