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Date:      Thu, 25 Jun 1998 16:48:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Thomas Valentino Crimi <tcrimi+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NetBSD (and FreeBSD) video support
Message-ID:  <4pYfS3S00UM21489I0@andrew.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1210.898764506@gjp.erols.com>
References:  <1210.898764506@gjp.erols.com>

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  Excerpts from mail: 25-Jun-98 Re: NetBSD (and FreeBSD) vi.. by "Gary
Palmer"@FreeBSD.OR 
>The TGA cards are the only(?) cards supported by NetBSD/Alpha for an
>X server, so specs are available. Infact, I believe, since they are
>bitmap cards and do not have a character blit engine (unlike VGA cards)
>you have to have some intelligence in the kernel even to use them as
>a text console...

  My TGA-E2 card actually crashes on probe.  Had to take it out to
install netbsd (going to recompile the kernel without tga0 so I don't
have to leave it out of the box), so there is definitely some work
needed.  :)  

  I'm still downloading all I need (bless my 14.4 modem), hoping to
bootstrap tonight. 

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