From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Mar 10 7: 6:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8E4737B404 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 07:06:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2AF6as18392; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 16:06:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 16:06:36 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: "Andrew M. Miklic" Cc: Peter Jeremy , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TGA driver available... Message-ID: <20020310160636.A18359@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <000701c1c129$fa0bc5e0$32aea9ac@c109118a3> <20020310121421.A61472@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <20020310135124.C18060@freebie.xs4all.nl> <001101c1c83e$eeba7850$449b98ac@c109118a3> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <001101c1c83e$eeba7850$449b98ac@c109118a3>; from AndrwMklc@cs.com on Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 07:21:53AM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 07:21:53AM -0700, Andrew M. Miklic wrote: > > This week I obtained a AlphaStation 500 with a TGA2 card. TGA2 seems > > to work out of the box with 4.5R, I guess the TGAcard does VGA emulation > or > > so. Haven't investigated this further (yet). > > > Yes--TGA2 cards have a "native" TGA mode and a default compatibility VGA > mode: the card defaults to VGA mode for boot, and I leave it there (there > didn't seem any reason to switch it to TGA mode, at least, not for text)... Oops, I was unclear: I don't have the TGA patches loaded, this is out-of-the-box 4.5R -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message