From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 13 18:22:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E3FA14E53 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 18:22:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA14732; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 21:22:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id VAA56497; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 21:21:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 21:21:44 -0400 (EDT) To: wulf@ping.net.au Cc: port-alpha@netbsd.org, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tga graphic cards In-Reply-To: <199910140101.KAA00763@dingo.ping.net.au> References: <199910140101.KAA00763@dingo.ping.net.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14341.11987.191749.205945@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Berndt Josef Wulf writes: > G'day, > > I call a AXPpci33 my own for more than 3 years and was hoping that > a xserver supporting standard vga-pci cards may become available at > some point in time. This doesn't appear to become reality and I am now > looking to purchase a tga-pci card allowing me to run local Xsessions > on this system. > > Does anyone know a supplier which sells those elusive tga pci cards > suitable for installation in an AXPpci33 box? Possibly to a price I > can afford? I've never seen any of these cards being offered for sale > or advertised in Australia. > This is almost funny. We should set up some sort of NetBSD/alpha <-> FreeBSD/alpha video card exchange. Those of use running FreeBSD/alpha can run XFree86 on standard PCI VGA hardware, but we don't have a console driver for TGAs... Sigh... 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