From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Feb 16 14:32: 3 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 5922037B551 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:32:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from don@calis.blacksun.org) Received: from calis.blacksun.org (calis.blacksun.org [168.100.186.40]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9C6F132E3 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:31:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by calis.blacksun.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2EE8D76; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:32:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by calis.blacksun.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29DA149ED; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:32:46 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:32:46 -0500 (EST) From: Don To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Dirk Kleinhesselink , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help installing FreeBSD 4.0 on AlphaStation 200 In-Reply-To: <14507.7789.62902.372667@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> 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 > 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 would be happy to mail you all three of mine... please? > 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). The big problem with this chip originally was the lack of documentation. For a while noone was able to get hold of the chip specs to actually write the driver. Now that the specs are out, everyone I know has already replaced the card. -don To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message