Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 16:06:36 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: "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: <20020310160636.A18359@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <001101c1c83e$eeba7850$449b98ac@c109118a3>; from AndrwMklc@cs.com on Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 07:21:53AM -0700 References: <000701c1c129$fa0bc5e0$32aea9ac@c109118a3> <20020310121421.A61472@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <20020310135124.C18060@freebie.xs4all.nl> <001101c1c83e$eeba7850$449b98ac@c109118a3>
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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 -- | / 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
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