Hi Claudio, > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Claudio Cailotto > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I’m Claudio and I write from Verona/Italy. > > > > I need a suggestion about an old HP PARISC workstation ( B2000 ) that I > > wish restore to new life with Debian release. > > > > I’have install , of course , some release of Debian ( from 5 to 7 ) and > > some OpenBsd and Gentoo.
Why not "Debian 8" ? See: https://parisc.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Debian_Ports_Installation > > All setting it’s ok : partitions on the HDD’s ; root; time; net on DHCP > > etc etc... BUT I can’t run X !!!! > > Claudio, > You need to use a "frame buffer" (stifb?) driver - this is all > software graphics - no HW acceleration. I used a B2000 as my desktop > (running hppa-linux with X) over 10 years ago. > > Please search the the linux-parisc mailing list archives (see > https://parisc.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page for more info), I'm > we've posted details of xorg.config files/etc that worked on B2000. > > And even if the original parisc-linux.org pages are obsolete, still > useful to read so you know what once-upon-a-time worked: > http://www.parisc-linux.org/faq/graphics-howto.html Actually, all content was migrated to our new wiki at kernel.org. See here: https://parisc.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Graphics_howto#Graphics_cards_with_PA-RISC_Linux Claudio, I assume your B2000 machine has one of the FX/2, FX/4, FX/6, FX/E, FX/5 and FX/10 PCI cards. Those are not supported. Only "HP Visualize EG" graphic cards are supported and will give you X11. I got a few B2000 myself, and all of them had a FX/something built-in. On Linux you can run "lcpci -v" and check the output. It should then list which PCI cards are in your machine. On the other side, I don't see a reason why you want to run X11 on such old hardware. Based on the power- and noise-consumption, it does not make any sense to run X11 nowadays on hppa. You have all applications on a x86_64 based PC/Laptop (or Mac) as well, and it's much faster. Helge -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/trinity-5b9828be-0142-4443-b06e-a1656af677a7-1431433170056@3capp-gmx-bs04
