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Date:      Wed, 13 Oct 1999 21:21:44 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        wulf@ping.net.au
Cc:        port-alpha@netbsd.org, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tga graphic cards
Message-ID:  <14341.11987.191749.205945@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199910140101.KAA00763@dingo.ping.net.au>
References:  <199910140101.KAA00763@dingo.ping.net.au>

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Berndt Josef Wulf writes:
 > G'day,
 > 
 > I call a AXPpci33 my own for more than 3 years and was hoping that
 > a xserver supporting standard vga-pci cards may become available at
 > some point in time. This doesn't appear to become reality and I am now
 > looking to purchase a tga-pci card allowing me to run local Xsessions
 > on this system.
 > 
 > Does anyone know a supplier which sells those elusive tga pci cards
 > suitable for installation in an AXPpci33 box? Possibly to a price I
 > can afford? I've never seen any of these cards being offered for sale 
 > or advertised in Australia.
 > 

This is almost funny.

We should set up some sort of NetBSD/alpha <-> FreeBSD/alpha video
card exchange.  Those of use running FreeBSD/alpha can run XFree86 on
standard PCI VGA hardware, but we don't have a console driver for
TGAs...

Sigh...

Drew
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