From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Nov 6 14:41:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EE9515038 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 14:40:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA15647; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 17:40:51 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id RAA10371; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 17:40:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 17:40:21 -0500 (EST) To: mholloway@flashmail.com Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X on FreeBSD Alpha..woes! In-Reply-To: <3823c9e2.1ec.0@flashmail.com> References: <3823c9e2.1ec.0@flashmail.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14372.44152.650139.487447@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mark L. Holloway writes: > I've loaded FreeBSD 3.2 on two different Alphas and X doesn't work for anything.. > I know there are some hints to getting it to work, but I have no clue what they > are! Also, does this problem exist on the 4.0 snapshot too? I appreicate any > help.. "Doesn't work for anything" isn't a very meaningful problem description ;-) What kinds of cards are you trying, in what types of machines, and what sorts of failures have you seen? Some card combinations just don't work well on alphas. Probably because they are less tolerant of bad PCI cards. I gave up on ever getting a $20USD S3 virge based card to work on an alpha. But I've happily run an Ati Mach64 in the same box. I've found 3DLabs Permedia base cards (use the XF86_3DLabs server) to work fairly well & to be reasonably priced... I've got 5 machines running happily here with cards based on this chipset, including my home box. BTW -- 4.0 and 3.x have almost nothing to do with how well X will work. The basic support is present in both branches. I run 4.x for its other features, but -stable should run X just as well. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message