From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jul 24 18:38:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from poptart.bithose.com (poptart.bithose.com [208.171.236.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BADBF37B405 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 18:38:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jakari@bithose.com) Received: from localhost (jakari@localhost) by poptart.bithose.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6P1bKR54565 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:37:20 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: poptart.bithose.com: jakari owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:37:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Jameel Akari To: Subject: Re: 4.3 install on Alphastation 4/233 In-Reply-To: <20010724173819.C5825@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 07:21:56PM -0400, Jameel Akari wrote: > > Bus 00 Slot 12: Digital ZLXp Graphics Controller > > This may be a TGA card. At the moment we do not have a device driver for > it. So serial console will be your only choice unless you replace it Yes, that is a good ol' 21030-AA TGA card. I've swapped it for an ATI mach64 (which thankfully had a DEC-issue ROM on it) and all is well. I'm installing now. (console=graphics when I tried the first time, that wasn't the problem.) I guess when I had it up in serial console, sending the break to reset the port probably selected the low-function ASCII mode for me. That, and Minicom's emulation is somewhat lacking. I should drag out the real VT100, the silly thing still works the best. > with a more standard [cheap] video card. I have a TGA driver that has > been submitted, but I am waiting feedback from the author before I can do > the import (maybe in time for FreeBSD 4.4). Then I'll look forward to trying it on my UDB someday. ;) Thanks! #!/jameel/akari for zig in $(find / -name zig); do rm -f $zig; done; export GREAT_JUSTICE=1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message