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Date:      Thu, 13 Jan 2000 18:02:30 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Tom Lehman <tlehman@east.isi.edu>
Cc:        "freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: XFree86 Xserver Question
Message-ID:  <14462.22731.234481.845360@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <387E5874.8ED74C5D@east.isi.edu>
References:  <387E5874.8ED74C5D@east.isi.edu>

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Tom Lehman writes:
 > I recently installed FBSD 4.0-20000101-CURRENT on an Alpha machine
 > (Comapaq XP1000).
 > 
 > I also installed XFree86-3.3.5 from /usr/ports.  I was able to configure
 > and get X running with a Number Nine Imagine128 video card.
 > 
 > My question is:  Does anyone know if there is an XServer available for
 > the "Compaq Powerstorm 350"?  This is the video card that came with the
 > machine, and I was not able to find an Xserver that worked with it.
 > 
 > SuperProbe does not work, and I was not able to figure out what chipset
 > this video card uses.
 > 
 > Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
 > 

DEC sometimes OEMs video cards.  At least one of their "Powerstorm"
cards is a 3dlabs card.

So you might try using pciconf -l to determine the PCI vendor & device
ID of the card.  This might at least get you a name.

Cheers,

Drew

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