Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 10:03:22 -0700 From: "Andrew M. Miklic" <AndrwMklc@cs.com> To: "Wilko Bulte" <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, "Andrew M. Miklic" <miklic@attglobal.net> Cc: "Peter Jeremy" <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>, <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: TGA driver available... Message-ID: <001f01c1c855$7dda7a10$449b98ac@c109118a3> References: <000701c1c129$fa0bc5e0$32aea9ac@c109118a3> <20020310121421.A61472@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <20020310135124.C18060@freebie.xs4all.nl> <001101c1c83e$eeba7850$449b98ac@c109118a3> <20020310160636.A18359@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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> 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 Perhaps I was also unclear--I meant that the TGA driver does not affect TGA2 cards, so TGA2 cards always have and still function as genric VGA cards, from before 4.5 to 5.0 now... Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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