Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 16:48:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Valentino Crimi <tcrimi+@andrew.cmu.edu> To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NetBSD (and FreeBSD) video support Message-ID: <4pYfS3S00UM21489I0@andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <1210.898764506@gjp.erols.com> References: <1210.898764506@gjp.erols.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Excerpts from mail: 25-Jun-98 Re: NetBSD (and FreeBSD) vi.. by "Gary Palmer"@FreeBSD.OR >The TGA cards are the only(?) cards supported by NetBSD/Alpha for an >X server, so specs are available. Infact, I believe, since they are >bitmap cards and do not have a character blit engine (unlike VGA cards) >you have to have some intelligence in the kernel even to use them as >a text console... My TGA-E2 card actually crashes on probe. Had to take it out to install netbsd (going to recompile the kernel without tga0 so I don't have to leave it out of the box), so there is definitely some work needed. :) I'm still downloading all I need (bless my 14.4 modem), hoping to bootstrap tonight. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4pYfS3S00UM21489I0>