Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:00:13 -0400 From: "Thomas Laus" <lausts@acm.org> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AlphaServer 4100 LCD Message-ID: <468A728D.7424.211C39E@lausts.acm.org> In-Reply-To: <20070703172135.GA74984@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <C2AFEC5B.7%kdogden@gmail.com>
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To: Kevin Ogden <kdogden@gmail.com> > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:06:51PM -0400, Kevin Ogden wrote.. > > Is there any easy way to write anything to the built-in LCD on the > > AlphaServer 4x00? I was thinking of trying to write a script to display > > uptime/load averages/etc. Any sysctl variables or anything? > > You can change it from the SRM >>> prompt. Something like > >>> SET OCP_TEXT or similar. > > > Another question, is there really that much of a lack of interest in > keeping > > Yes, there is that much lack of interest. > > > alpha support going? This box is still a capable server and I really > > don't want to run Linux or Tru64 once FreeBSD 6 becomes stale. > > Water under the bridge. Unfortunately. > Kevin: You might want to try OpenBSD & NetBSD as well. The system layout is similar to FreeBSD and have additional hardware that may be supported in your AlphaServer. I was able to get my AlphaStation 255 to successfully boot this week with OpenBSD 4.1 that was released in March 2007. None of the FreeBSD 6.x releases would boot a GENERIC kernel for me and my AS255 was just too slow to perform an update and custom kernel build from source. I was previously running FreeBSD 4.11 which went EOL recently. A buildworld would take me about 30 hours with the debug symbols. I was going to try NetBSD next to see if I could boot the most recent GENERIC kernel on it. The various model Alpha's all seem to have their own little quirks and there is a lot of drivers don't 'play well' with each other. Tom -- Public Keys: PGP KeyID = 0x5F22FDC1 GnuPG KeyID = 0x620836CF
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