From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Mar 25 13:49:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from rahl.dorm.duke.edu (rahl.dorm.duke.edu [152.16.249.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B15B37B416 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 13:49:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from scott@localhost) by rahl.dorm.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2PLnUd39882; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 16:49:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from scott) Message-Id: <200203252149.g2PLnUd39882@rahl.dorm.duke.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" From: Scott Sipe To: Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: Alpha Build Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 16:49:30 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <200203252124.g2PLOiw39838@rahl.dorm.duke.edu> <20020325224557.A776@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20020325224557.A776@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 On Monday 25 March 2002 16:45, you wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 04:24:44PM -0500, Scott Sipe wrote: > > There are 4 AlphaStation 600's from which I could pick, 2 of them have > > 'TGA graphics cards', 2 have "normal" graphics cards and "can run X." > >  Seeing as right now I know next to nothing about Alpha's, would it be > > better to pick one or the other, or, would one or the other be better for > > freeBSD testing? > > 'normal' graphics card is slightly non-descriptive I'm afraid ;) > > Can you get a SHOW CONF & SHOW DEV from all machines? Just hook up a serial > port of a PC (or terminal) to serial port #1 of the Allpha (9600N81) > and look for the >>> prompt before entering the command. > > SHOW CONF will give you all info on the box. CPU speed, memory, > expansion boards etc. SHOW DEVICES will give you the peripherals > > Wilko I really can't I don't think, unfortunately. These computers as I understand are sitting somewhere in a closet in my school's CS department. I'll see what I can do though. I'll probably try to take a look at them tomorrow or something. Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message