Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 15:15:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: "Mark Holloway" <mholloway@flashmail.com> Cc: <alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Alpha FreeBSD 3.2 Message-ID: <14218.15088.765558.75207@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <001201becc6e$b83e1da0$eb3bea18@lvcm.com> References: <001201becc6e$b83e1da0$eb3bea18@lvcm.com>
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Mark Holloway writes: > Does anyone know if installing FreeBSD Alpha will get Xfree86 up and > running with an Elsa GLoria Synergy card? It uses the Permedia 2 chip > which is supported by Xfree86 3.3.3. The card itself was designed by > Elsa to work on Intel and DEC Alpha. According to the commercial X > servers like Metro-X and Accelerated-X they support this card on Alpha > running Linux. Xfree86 project has a driver for it, but I'm lost in > knowing if it has been ported to Alpha FreeBSD. > > > Regards, > Mark <Apologies for reformatting your message, but it was almost totally unreadable..> You'll need to build Xfree86 from ports, after after applying Doug's patch for FreeBSD/alpha support (http://www.freebsd.org/~dfr/XFree86.diff ). I believe that it should work for your card. I'm running X on a few alphas (personal workstations, xp1000s) running -current (but -stable should work too ) using Dec PowerStorm 4d10 cards, which I think use the same chipset: XFree86 Version 3.3.3.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: January 4 1999 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT alpha [ELF] Configured drivers: GLINT: accelerated server for 3DLabs GLINT graphics adapters (Patchlevel 0) Using syscons driver with X support (version 2.0) (using VT number 4) <...> (--) GLINT: found TI chip GLINT Permedia 2 at card #10 func #0 with base 0x81000000 (--) GLINT: Framebuffer address at 0x80000000 (--) GLINT: videoram : 8192k (--) GLINT: Using builtin RAMDAC of Permedia 2 chip <..> Cheers, Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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