Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:19:58 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Dirk Kleinhesselink <dkleinh@phy.ucsf.EDU> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help installing FreeBSD 4.0 on AlphaStation 200 Message-ID: <14506.63188.74419.101940@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.1000216110702.2104B-100000@amadeus.ucsf.edu> References: <200002160220.SAA03182@mass.cdrom.com> <Pine.OSF.3.95.1000216110702.2104B-100000@amadeus.ucsf.edu>
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Dirk Kleinhesselink writes: > > > On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > NetBSD/alpha 1.4.1 reports > > ... > > > tga0: at pci0 dev 13 function 0: DC21030 step C, board type T8-02 > > ... > > > Is there anyway I can get FreeBSD 4.0 to use/recognize the video card for > > > at least a text mode ? > > > > No. The TGA is not supported. > If I can't use it for a non-graphic text console, what card can I use for > this ? Or is FreeBSD/alpha only a head-less OS ? I find it very bad that > the official DEC/Compaq systems don't work with FreeBSD, given that > XFree86 has support for TGA and the *other guys* (Linux/NetBSD) can handle > them... PCI VGA cards will work, and will run XFree86. I have personal experiance with an S3 ViRGE based Diamond card on an AS200. I run a number of AS600, AS500 and my own Miata with 3D-labs based cards (Powerstorm 4d10, as well as $30 clones). We had somebody who was going to write TGA support, but he never produced anything. If TGA support is important to you, consider writing it yourself. The documentation is apparently readily available (ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/dec-docs/ec-n0683-72.ps.gz) Cheers, 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
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