Hi Marco, > What kind of IA-64 systems do you have? One, or the one, you spoke > of was an HP zx6000 (zx1-based), correct? VMS runs on it, it even > identifies the zx6000 as such in "$ SHOW SYSTEM /NOPROCESSES /FULL" > and in the SDA. > > There's 3D acceleration, but there aren't many graphics adapters > supported. At the moment I have AMD/ATi Radeon 7000 and 7500 > cards in them, where the latter support "Open3D" (VMS' OpenGL > implementation, which used to be a licensed feature for sometime, > like during the DEC FireStorm graphics hardware era).
I'm running a hp workstation zx6000 sporting a ATI FireGL X1 AGP graphics adapter. I bet that you only get 2D hardware acceleration on OpenVMS with Radeon 7000 range of hardware. >> W.r.t. 3D graphics, everything is now running fine on my side. Next >> big step will probably be deeply testing forthcoming GNOME 3.0 in >> Wheezy (http://www.0d.be/debian/debian-gnome-3.0-status.html). And >> also report/fix unaligned accesses (e.g. Xorg, ioquake3). Since then, stability issues are back (e.g. random freezes in ioQuake3 demo playback or WebGL conformance test run), but I can't track the culprit down. This seems to be related to Gallium3D or relationships between the r300g driver and the kernel, but due to initramfs-tools 0.98.8 preventing me from testing post-2.6.38 kernel () > Are the boot loader (ELILO) and CD/DVD detection issues at least > resolved now, in the meantime? I remember I had to perform some > rather clumsy tricks to get the boot loader installed correctly. > (You may remember that from previous correspondence.) Yes, the missing cmd64x driver is back again in the 6.0.3 install media. >> However, you can upgrade to Wheezy from a running Squeeze install. > I usually shy away from upgrades, especially full, distribution, > upgrades. I remember having broken the system several times, if > not due to carelessness on my part... I wasn't really talking about a distribution upgrade. In fact, I performed a "fresh" Wheezy install on a dedicated HDD from a running Squeeze system using the debootstrap tool. Since Wheezy debian-installer images are still broken, this is the only way I've found. I'm also waiting for a complete rebuild of eglibc including support for accept4 system call (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=647825). This will fix post-170 udev issue (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=648325) and allow installation of GNOME Shell (I'm stuck with Classic GNOME at this time). Émeric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caa9xbm54xfjxwsjpbooo4cnqtnbegze5cqi1bawn9th_g0b...@mail.gmail.com
