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Date:      Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:49:03 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Dirk Kleinhesselink <dkleinh@phy.ucsf.EDU>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help installing FreeBSD 4.0 on AlphaStation 200 
Message-ID:  <200002162349.PAA01400@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Feb 2000 11:12:21 PST." <Pine.OSF.3.95.1000216110702.2104B-100000@amadeus.ucsf.edu> 

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> > > NetBSD/alpha 1.4.1 reports
> > ...
> > > tga0: at pci0 dev 13 function 0: DC21030 step C, board type T8-02
> > ...
> > > 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 ? 

Any other functional VGA adapter.  I've had good results with Matrox and 
#9 adapters; the DS20 that I'm using as a workstation has an 8M Elsa 
something-or-other in it that works just fine.

> I find it very bad that
> 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've never seen an "official DEC/Compaq" system with TGA other than a 
Multia; everything they've ever shipped us has either been headless, or 
had a real video card in it.  As far as supporting the TGA is concerned; 
if someone were to step forward with the code, I'm sure we'd take it.

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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