From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jun 21 11:46:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from relay02.chello.nl (relay02.chello.nl [212.83.68.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A673037B83B for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 11:46:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@chello.nl) Received: from chello.nl ([213.46.78.184]) by relay02.chello.nl (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 2ee4e7c625482f2f2a1950a80f6c8d58) with ESMTP id <20000621184607.HREN18262.relay02@chello.nl>; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 20:46:07 +0200 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by chello.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA00366; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 20:46:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 20:46:21 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: wc.bulte@chello.nl, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does anyone know how to define RAMDAC and clock chip of Mach64 for FreeBSD4.0/Alpha? Message-ID: <20000621204621.D238@freebie.wbnet> Reply-To: wilko@FreeBSD.ORG References: <49256904.000603D4.00@cmnotesx.nimc.go.jp> <14670.54275.206271.399227@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20000620082737.A4615@freebie.wbnet> <14671.26090.747395.116295@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <14671.26090.747395.116295@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 08:47:32AM -0400 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 08:47:32AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Wilko Bulte writes: > > > > XF86 works just like as on the Intel. Notable exception is a core dumping > > SuperProbe. > > Not to mention that buggy Xservers will panic machines when they > access invalid i/o space addresses on non-ev6 platforms. You tell me ... ;-) > Also, some video cards will not work as console devices because the > SRM console's x86 emulator is incapable of running their BIOSes. Right, but sofar I have not had *that* problem. Even an ancient ET4000 ISA worked for me. > I've found that Permedia & Matrox cards work well.. A $20 S3 PCI also worked for me. -- Wilko Bulte http://www.freebsd.org "Do, or do not. There is no try" wilko@freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl Yoda - The Empire Strikes Back To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message