On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 12:42:18PM +0100, Ladislav Michl wrote: > here you can see reason. newport driver "detect" hardware by searching for > "SGI Indy" in /proc/cpuinfo. yes, it is a hack, but it will be removed as > soon as we implement support for GIO bus. > > go for latest oss.sgi.com cvs kernel (linux_2_4 branch) - it is fixed.
Aha, that does it. 2.4.17 from oss.sgi.com. Thanks. Now I'm wondering why it won't support any depth greather than 8. My card's a 24-bit Newport XL. :\ My monitor is a SGI GDM-4011P which supports 1280x1024 @ 70Hz easily, and so I think it should be able to handle 24-bit color. Regards, -- wca
