From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Feb 16 14:11:52 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 F231837B53D for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:11:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 445DC132E4 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:11:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA09818; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:11:34 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id RAA23005; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:11:04 -0500 (EST) (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, 16 Feb 2000 17:11:04 -0500 (EST) To: Don Cc: Dirk Kleinhesselink , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help installing FreeBSD 4.0 on AlphaStation 200 In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14507.7789.62902.372667@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Don writes: > Seriously though, noone has had the time, or the inclination (given the > fact that the average virge card with s3 server outperforms the TGA hands > down) to bother supporting the card. It may come but few people see a > reason for it. Yes, when I side-graded a handful of AS500s and AS600s sitting in a public lab from Tru64 to FreeBSD, I gave thought to spending time writing console support. And then I realized that I could buy new Permedia-based cards to replace the TGAs in these four machines for less than $200US. I quickly gave up the idea of spending time on it in favor of working on OSF/1 compat. In all seriousness, if there is somebody out there who is willing to write console support for for the TGA, I will be happy to mail you a ZLXp-E1. I have a small stack getting dusty in my desk drawer. This would not be an impossible task for somebody who has a little C programming experience. There is documentation for the chip, and there are concrete examples of how to program it (NetBSD's wscons, I imagine linux must support it too). Cheers, 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