From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon May 22 20:58:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from cr1015483-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com (cr1015483-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.51.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8734937B8B0 for ; Mon, 22 May 2000 20:58:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from deddingf@home.com) Received: (qmail 24577 invoked from network); 23 May 2000 03:58:08 -0000 Received: from larson.wecs.net (HELO home.com) (192.168.2.16) by molock.wecs.net with SMTP; 23 May 2000 03:58:08 -0000 Message-ID: <392A01DC.ED5315B2@home.com> Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 20:58:20 -0700 From: Duane Eddingfield Organization: A Private FreeBSD Site in Vancouver BC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; OSF1 V5.0 alpha) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Alpha version and Xwindows... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi: I have an AlphaStation 255 with a 'Number Nine' video card (S3 Trio 64 - 2 MB). I am running Tru64 UNIX which is quite fine except that I work in a place that uses Solaris and Linux. I am thinking that this would be a killer FreeBSD box for 4.0. I have grep'ed the mailing lists for information on running Xwindows but have not found much discussion other than it seems to work but I see people having problems with S3 video. What I am wondering is basically does XFree86 run on the Alphstation and can I have all the glitzy stuff like on the Intel versions. XFree86 3.3.6 would do just fine but can I have KDE or FVWM and stuff like that. Also my Alphastation does not have a floppy drive so I either spend a few dollars on one or I netboot the install, which I have done with NetBSD. NetBSD installed fine but when I ran adduser, it gave me a readme about creating accounts with vipw etc. I thought that was a bit to primitive so I didn't go any further with it, I really wanted FreeBSD anyway :) Thanks for the suggestions or pointers to where to RTFM, To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message