From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Mar 10 9: 3: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from rly-ip02.mx.aol.com (rly-ip02.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7800D37B405 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 09:03:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from logs-te.proxy.aol.com (logs-te.proxy.aol.com [152.163.195.135]) by rly-ip02.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/AOL-5.0.0) with ESMTP id MAA14316; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 12:01:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from c109118a3 (AC989B44.ipt.aol.com [172.152.155.68]) by logs-te.proxy.aol.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id g2AH0LR293445; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 12:00:21 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <001f01c1c855$7dda7a10$449b98ac@c109118a3> Reply-To: "Andrew M. Miklic" From: "Andrew M. Miklic" To: "Wilko Bulte" , "Andrew M. Miklic" Cc: "Peter Jeremy" , References: <000701c1c129$fa0bc5e0$32aea9ac@c109118a3> <20020310121421.A61472@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <20020310135124.C18060@freebie.xs4all.nl> <001101c1c83e$eeba7850$449b98ac@c109118a3> <20020310160636.A18359@freebie.xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: TGA driver available... Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 10:03:22 -0700 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 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Apparently-From: AndrwMklc@cs.com 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 Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 07:21:53AM -0700, Andrew M. Miklic wrote: > > > This week I obtained a AlphaStation 500 with a TGA2 card. TGA2 seems > > > to work out of the box with 4.5R, I guess the TGAcard does VGA emulation > > or > > > so. Haven't investigated this further (yet). > > > > > > Yes--TGA2 cards have a "native" TGA mode and a default compatibility VGA > > mode: the card defaults to VGA mode for boot, and I leave it there (there > > didn't seem any reason to switch it to TGA mode, at least, not for text)... > > Oops, I was unclear: I don't have the TGA patches loaded, this is > out-of-the-box 4.5R Perhaps I was also unclear--I meant that the TGA driver does not affect TGA2 cards, so TGA2 cards always have and still function as genric VGA cards, from before 4.5 to 5.0 now... Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message