From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat May 26 14:48: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BC7337B422 for ; Sat, 26 May 2001 14:47:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@nuxi.ucdavis.edu) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@[206.40.252.115]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f4QLlwl37887; Sat, 26 May 2001 14:47:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f4QLlvB11964; Sat, 26 May 2001 14:47:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 14:47:57 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Will L G Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Alpha PC164SX Message-ID: <20010526144757.B11876@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from diskman@kc.rr.com on Sat, May 26, 2001 at 02:50:58AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 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 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