From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Jul 6 15: 0:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (dhcp44-21.dis.org [216.240.44.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 842F637B406 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 15:00:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f66MEMa02102; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 15:14:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200107062214.f66MEMa02102@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Ardelean Gheorghe , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install problems with FreeBSD on Alpha Server 2100, 5/250 In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 06 Jul 2001 17:47:01 EDT." <15174.12757.755834.181525@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 15:14:22 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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 > > Mike Smith writes: > > > > > > I think the Mylex and Qvision should be fine -- we should just ignore > > > them. > > > > Actually, the Mylex will work just fine (with the mlx driver), and the > > Qvision should just show up as a VGA card. > > Err, no it won't. At least not on alpha -- this is an EISA card. > Does mlx have an EISA attachment these days? Oops. The 2100 has PCI, so I just assumed it was a PCI card. mlx *should* have an EISA attachment, since I have all the hardware and docs, but I don't have an EISA machine that I can make it work in. They're all nasty old Intel boxes, and none of them work right. 8( I'd love to have the time to work on this; it ought to be really trivial. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message