From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Feb 16 13:30:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from builder.freebsd.org (builder.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7832437B5F2 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:30:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkleinh@phy.ucsf.EDU) Received: from phy.ucsf.EDU (phy.ucsf.edu [128.218.64.200]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D30FF132E5 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:30:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from amadeus.ucsf.edu (dkleinh@amadeus.ucsf.edu [128.218.65.107]) by phy.ucsf.EDU (8.8.6/GSC4.27) with ESMTP id NAA12504 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:30:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost by amadeus.ucsf.edu (8.8.6) id NAA02130; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:30:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:30:37 -0800 (PST) From: Dirk Kleinhesselink X-Sender: dkleinh@amadeus.ucsf.edu To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help installing FreeBSD 4.0 on AlphaStation 200 In-Reply-To: <20000216213419.B2716@yedi.iaf.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 11:12:21AM -0800, Dirk Kleinhesselink wrote: > > > > > Is there anyway I can get FreeBSD 4.0 to use/recognize the video card for > > > > at least a text mode ? > > > > > > No. The TGA is not supported. > > If I can't use it for a non-graphic text console, what card can I use for > > this ? Or is FreeBSD/alpha only a head-less OS ? I find it very bad that > > I've used S3Virge etc cards with success. Even an ISA ET4000 works in my > Miata MX5. > > > the official DEC/Compaq systems don't work with FreeBSD, given that > > XFree86 has support for TGA and the *other guys* (Linux/NetBSD) can handle > > them... > > I'm afraid this means that you will have to write TGA support code > yourself. It probably boils down to people owning a TGA and having enough > time and willing to spend the time. I have no idea how to write a driver -- I'm an old FORTRAN coder. I guess I'm confused, because FreeBSD won't boot from the ARC/AlphaBIOS and so the only machines one can use for it are "real DEC/Compaq" machines -- I would've figured that the DEC/Compaq machines that ran UNIX (or OpenVMS) would run FreeBSD, but I guess this isn't the case. Are there any video cards supported by Digital UNIX/Tru64/OpenVMS that will work with FreeBSD ? > > -- > Wilko Bulte > Arnhem, The Netherlands > WWW : http://www.tcja.nl > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message