Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 00:40:51 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: gjohnson@physics.clarku.edu (Greg Johnson) Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, port-alpha@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Q: Compaq, *BSD and 'Linux-only' AlphaBIOS (fwd) Message-ID: <199912042340.AAA30746@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <19991204173653.A16642@physics.clarku.edu> from Greg Johnson at "Dec 4, 1999 5:36:53 pm"
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As Greg Johnson wrote ... > On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 09:56:34AM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > As Andrew Gillham wrote ... > > > For the average Joe, using the ARC/AlphaBIOS menus to setup booting Linux > > > and/or BSD, etc isn't so bad. Also, the ARC console can boot from some > > > NCR controllers that the SRM can't, etc. Hmm, I wonder if the ARC firmware > > > > Most/some ARC's (??) can also handle an Adaptec 2940[UW] card. > > > > > supports additional video cards also? > > > > On some machines yes. For example my Miata accepts video cards while in > > ARC that it does not (unless you pci_device_override) in SRM. Which makes > > me wonder why the Pyxis bug is not relevant to NT BTW. > > What's the Pyxis bug? Rather than repeating Jason Thorpe here I suggest you check the mailing list archive. Jason posted it on Nov 20, 1999 Thanks, -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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