Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 09:33:17 -0500 From: "William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org> To: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PWS 433au FreeBSD 5.3 Message-ID: <b5b4b353e86e95c612faabaecf7203ea@mcgillsociety.org> In-Reply-To: <20050309070118.GB14973@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20050308185547.B58895@mail.tznet.com> <20050309070118.GB14973@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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On 09 Mar, 2005, at 02:01, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:59:16PM -0600, Rich O. wrote.. >> I was just wondering if there's anyway that I can get a tga/tga2 >> driver to work with my personal workstation on FreeBSD 5.3. It worked >> fine >> in 5.2.1, I assume the tga driver was pulled between these releases? >> It's >> the only video card I have available for this machine. > > It was indeed pulled because it tended to cause machine crashes, and > none of the developers felt like trying to figure that out and/or > had the hardware to do so. > >> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Or I suppose even a video >> card recommendation that would be known to work with the PWS 433au and >> FreeBSD 5.3. > > An old Matrox Millenium II served me wel. But I also used various > no-name S3 cards successfully. No longer have a PWS myself. Generally speaking, the Matrox Millennium seems to be the board of preference. This is from the Alpha-Linux list over at Red-Hat... Jay Estabrook is the Compaq/HP person who has been involved with Alpha-Linux support for several years now. There is a recent thread: "Digital PWS433au + Matrox G450 PCI" Begin forwarded message: > From: Jay Estabrook <jay.estabrook@hp.com> > Date: 08 October, 2004 15:40:14 EDT > To: Linux and Red Hat on Alpha processors <axp-list@redhat.com> > Subject: Re: Digital PWS433au + Matrox G450 PCI > Reply-To: Linux and Red Hat on Alpha processors <axp-list@redhat.com> > > On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 08:19:49PM -0600, Buck Rekow wrote: >> >> anyone ever had luck with ATI rage cards? > > Yes, or rather, with an ATI Rage 128 card, as that was the first card > available to me that had 3D support in XFree86 AND was acceptable to > the SRM console (at least on machines newer than PC164). > >> my PC164 won't boot with one.. > > I'm not too surprised, if you are using SRM console. Its BIOS emulator > was pretty limited. > > However, I HAVE had good luck on a PC164 running from ARC/MILO with an > ATI Rage 128 (and maybe a Radeon), as well as a Voodoo3 3000, AND > getting the 3D support in RH 7.2 for Alpha to function. The PC164 is > the only "sparse" Alpha that I've been able to get 3D to work on, > although I may not have tried others under MILO... > > So, you need to decide whether SRM or 3D is more important to you... > ;-} > > --Jay++ > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Jay A Estabrook HPTC - LINUX support > Hewlett-Packard Company - ZKO2-3/N30 (603) 884-0301 > 110 Spit Brook Road, Nashua NH 03062 Jay.Estabrook@hp.com > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > axp-list mailing list > axp-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/axp-list T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Beige G3 [Rev A motherboard - 300 MHz 768 Meg] OS X 10.2.8 # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) [800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg] OS X 10.3.8 # PWS433a [Alpha 21164 Rev 7.2 (EV56)- 64 Meg] Tru64 5.1a # XP1000 [Alpha 21264-3 (EV6) - 256 meg] FreeBSD 5.3 # XP1000 [Alpha 21264-A (EV 6.7) - 384 meg] FreeBSD 5.3 magill@mcgillsociety.org magill@acm.org magill@mac.com whmagill@gmail.com
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