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Posted on 19-May-2002 14:10 GMT by jah | 359 comments View flat View list |
i noticed a new video on aminet:
http://www.aminet.net/pix/mpg/Pegasos.mpg
"This is a demo video of bPlan's Pegasos computer. The video has been created by Thendic-France to give an impression of how the machine runs."
the download is still in progress, but i'm sure it will finish to convince all amiga users thats the ppc amiga they are waiting since years is finally arrived
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Posted by Joe "Floid" Kanowitz on 20-May-2002 21:38 GMT | In reply to Comment 331 (David Scheibler): David said,
>>Things nobody else noted yet- looks like there's still no MorphOS driver for
>>the onboard ethernet, given the PCI board installed
>Maybe they're just testing some PCI network card drivers...
Hard to say. No photos have shown it plugged to anything, and other shots from Thendic have shown it in 'running' configuration with the PCI board hooked to the network.
Nobody's shown Firewire or USB on either platform, and it's pretty obvious that driver work is ongoing for both OSes. I just take it as a status report, as we don't hear much factual about MOS on ANN.
>>The AGP support looks to be up and running.
>No. It doesn't work. To show the graphics bplan's smart particle teleportion
>system is used. ;)
>On the other hand: Why was at the AmigaOne demonstration no AGP card but a PCI
>graphics card used?
Most likely: Either the kernel revision in the TurboLinux distro doesn't know the ins and outs of the Articia S's AGP implementation, or Eyetech couldn't be bothered to pull out an AGP card and configure the DRM module and DRI.* (Just checked; they do stock plenty of Matrox AGP stuff.) Unfortunately, I'm not having a good go at finding the version of Turbolinux used (I thought I heard a version number below 7, which is what Turbolinux.com currently pimps).
*X configuration can be a bit touchy; while I'd say Matrox is one of the best supported cards, things are still a bit rough-edged in XFree86 4.2.0. I get the (not verrry founded) impression that Alan doesn't want to have much to do with Linux if he can help it, so I doubt anyone did much with the Linux install that wasn't handled by the graphical configurators. Similarly, I assume everyone's hardware works pretty well, and that when/if NetBSD is brought up on the Pegasos, vr0 will show in the dmesg. :) |
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