From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun May 27 0:34:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail4.kc.rr.com (fe4.rdc-kc.rr.com [24.94.163.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8166C37B423 for ; Sun, 27 May 2001 00:34:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from diskman@kc.rr.com) Received: from zephur ([65.26.10.217]) by mail4.kc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Sun, 27 May 2001 02:34:07 -0500 From: "Will L G" To: Subject: FreeBSD and Alpha PC164SX Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 02:35:43 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org There are no bugs? Thats pretty big talking. I wondered if there were some problems with it. I noticed during the installation it would ask to install and configure it but it wouldn't simply install. I had to install it manually then config. Once config'd the screen is all distorted and what not. Alot of the graphics are simply missing. Didn't have a single problem with it picking up the mouse. I'll just go ahead and swing over to Tru64. It appears to be well supported and there appears to be more software dedicated specifically for it and the alpha. Don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against the FREE movement but I generally have the impression, if its free odds are you don't want it [;-) Tru64 is $75 well invested I feel. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of David O'Brien Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 2:48 PM To: Will L G Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Alpha PC164SX On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 02:50:58AM -0700, Will L G wrote: > I was wondering is there some problems with the alpha version of bsd and > Alpha PC164SX models? Zero. I own one of these. > The reason I was asking is, for some reason it will not allow me to > install and configure XF86 even though it is alpha compatible. It comes > back with and error, " VGA16 must be installed to configure". I've > attempted to install it but after numerous failed attempts all I get is > "SVGA is not supported at this time". This appears to be an > error message issued by FreeBSD. No it is a message issued by XF86Setup. Go bug the XFree86 developers -- their XF86Setup program needs the VGA16 server, which does not bulid on *any* Alpha OS. You need to run xf86config to configure the server and then hack the resulting /etc/XF86Config as xf86config does not know about our sysmouse. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message