From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jun 13 10:42:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from internet.hilbrink.nl (ns.hilbrink.nl [212.136.135.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C485E37B408 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:42:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cor@hilbrink.nl) Received: from cpqpc (cpqpc.hilbrink.nl [212.136.135.151]) by internet.hilbrink.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA03001; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 19:50:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from cor@hilbrink.nl) Message-ID: <008501c0f42f$c01f7060$978788d4@hilbrink.nl> Reply-To: "Cor Hilbrink" From: "Cor Hilbrink" To: "Andrew Gallatin" Cc: References: <007f01c0f426$bc9b41c0$978788d4@hilbrink.nl> <15143.39027.877073.655469@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Subject: Re: Graphical card Alpha DS10l supported under X11?? Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 19:39:08 +0200 Organization: Hilbrink IT Solutions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 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 Hello Andrew, Thanks for your quick response... I did use the CDrom kit version 4.1 for Alpha, i don't have newer versions here available yet. I will give it another try ofcourse. Regards, Cor Hilbrink. ----- Original Message ----- From: Andrew Gallatin To: Cor Hilbrink Cc: Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 6:44 PM Subject: Re: Graphical card Alpha DS10l supported under X11?? > > Cor Hilbrink writes: > > Hello. > > > > For the moment we are trying to install a DS10L with FreeBSD for Alpha. > > This machine contains a Elsa Gloria Synergy-8 video adapter, does anyone know how to configure X? > > We tried several cardtypes, but thusfar we didn't suceed to get XWindows running properly. > > > > I hope that anyone can tell us a bit more how this can be solved. > > > > You failed to mention what version of FreeBSD you're using, what > version of the XFree86 distro you're using & what the trouble is. > Without this informaiton, there's not a lot anybody here can do to > help you, other than to make general suggestion. > > If you're using XFree86 3.x, note that (as David O'Brien pointed out): > > The "graphical" XFree86 configuration program -- XF86Setup program > *requires* the VGA16 server. This server does NOT build on the > Alpha. Not just FreeBSD/alpha, but AlphaLinux and Tru86 also. > > The issue with using the text-only xf86config is that it does not > know about moused's sysmouse. Thus you either cannot use moused, > or you must hack the /etc/XF86Config file xf86config creates to > specify sysmouse. > > Note that you'll want to use the XF86_3DLabs Xserver under XF86 3.x > > For what its worth, I just built XF86 4.1.0 from ports & the XServer > for the AGP Elsa Gloria Synergy card seems to work just fine > on my UP1000. I'm not sure what the trailing -8 of your card > signifies. > > I hope this random smattering of information is somewhat helpful. > > BTW, please don't post html on the freebsd mailing lists. > > Cheers, > > Drew > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin > Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu > Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message