> Hello!
> I've got 2 questions regarding:
> cobalt driver:
> I've been experimenting quite unexpected troubles with sgi cobalt graphic
> adapter driver (sgi visual station 320) following an upgrade to Windows 2000
> professional+sgi ssk, and I would like to know if installing linux+sgi
> propack 1.2 is going to solve that one.
well, I am sorry to say that graphics support for the 320 under linux is
shakey at best. it doesn't have good opengl support and the 2D stuff
works, but is not very stable. please remember that the propack does not
support the older VW's (320 & 540).
> performance:
> It seems W2k doesn't detect the full amount of ram I've got. First it
> substracts the memory pre-allocated for sgi graphics system, and goes even
> further: 512 physical ram equals 339 available ram for the OS.
> I guess that makes for some performance loss there.
> Does Linux detect ram memory better?
> Does it better understand SGI graphics system?
I have not seen any problems with linux detecting the wrong size of RAM.
unless you are interested in helping with the porting effort or feel like
living on the edge, I would suggest sticking with windows on the 320 &
540. not to mention, support will not want any thing to do with you if
you switch to linux.
later,
-tduffy
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