Well, if you want to get more than 1G of RAM, your best bet is to just use
the BIGMEM patch on oss.sgi.com. This will probably be the fastest thing.
On the other hand, you can always install the kernel rpm and then point
arcx at that.
I am in the process of trying to get a few vw's in house to continue to
develop the kernel. I have talked to a couple of people who seem
interested including Ralf Baechle who is in Germany as well. We hope to
at least see the VW support forward ported to the 2.3 kernels. Right now,
it may be dropped if no body supports it.
In any event, if you do know something about the linux kernel, we could
always use your help. If you find any specific bugs, let me know. And
the keyboard this is known and I don't know of any workarounds -- sorry.
THanks,
tduffy
SGI - Core Linux
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Ehab Fares wrote:
> Good Morning,.
> We have an SGI VISUAL WORKSTATION 540 with 4 Processors and 2GB RAM and rthe
> Flat panel 1600SW. Based on the information on www.linux.sgi.com we were able
> to install Linux (SuSE 6.3) on that machine. It's running now fine (woth all
> 4 Processors) with exception of the strange keyboard behaviour..
> Anyway we can only adress 1GB of the RAM.
> I found information for SGI ProPach 1.2 with rpm's including newer kernels
> (2.13) for the Visual Workstations. Unfortunately I cannot boot that kernel,
> because lilo is not working on the 540. (We have to use arcx) Building a new
> Kernel is possible but it simply wouldn't boot.
>
> I know that there is no support for the Visual Workstations running Linux.
> Therefore I would be more than grateful if you could simply inform me, where
> to
> look further or which persons are involved in the developmnet of the linux on
> the Visual workstation. I think I can be of assistance to them as well.
>
> thank you very much in advance for your co-operation.
>
> sincerely yours,
> Ehab.
>
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