Questions on HPPA (HP9000 C240)

[GentooYY]

Hi, all,

I got two old HPPA machines. Both are model C240.
Most probably they have Visualize FX4 graphic cards installed.
I searched in this forum. It seems that only "framebuffer" is
supported for this card. I wonder what this means?
Does this mean I cannot "emerge xorg-x11" and get
X11 run? Can X programs, like Xterm, run in the framebuffer mode?

Sorry for the dummy question?

YY

[gmsoft]

FX cards are unsupported. That mean you'll not have framebuffer on them and then you'll not be able to run X with it.

The only way to run X on hppa is to use the framebuffer driver of X.

You can use either a Vis-EG card but only (8 bit most of the time), a vodoo2 or a old matrox.
For more info : http://www.parisc-linux.org/faq/graphics-howto.html

If you have time, join us on #gentoo-hppa on irc.freenode.net.

[GentooYY]

Thank you so much for the reply.
I checked the website. It seems that the Vis-EG card may
support FB so that I can run X (though it's just 8-bit color).
So I'm wondering it may happen that my box came with
this card rather than FX4.

Is there a way to check if I have an FX4 or Vis-EG?

Regards,
YY

[gmsoft]

lspci from sys-apps/pciutils should tell you which device you have.

[Emphii]