Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:44:49 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Dirk Kleinhesselink <dkleinh@phy.ucsf.EDU> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help installing FreeBSD 4.0 on AlphaStation 200 Message-ID: <14507.6310.52769.784517@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.1000216132649.2113A-100000@amadeus.ucsf.edu> References: <20000216213419.B2716@yedi.iaf.nl> <Pine.OSF.3.95.1000216132649.2113A-100000@amadeus.ucsf.edu>
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Dirk Kleinhesselink writes: > I'm confused, because FreeBSD won't boot from the ARC/AlphaBIOS and so the > only machines one can use for it are "real DEC/Compaq" machines -- I Specifically, what hardware are you talking about? It might not be as bad as you think. You can run SRM on the PC164 series of machines, as well as on the a series of Miatas (eg, DPW433a). The only machines which are really locked into AlphaBios/arc are the NT-only DEC branded machines like the Alpha XL (233, 266, 300, 366, 433). > would've figured that the DEC/Compaq machines that ran UNIX (or > OpenVMS) would run FreeBSD, but I guess this isn't the case. Are there > any video cards supported by Digital UNIX/Tru64/OpenVMS that will > work with FreeBSD ? Off the top of my head, I would imagine that the Elsa Gloria Synergy should work just fine, as it is a 3D-labs Permedia2 based card. The S3-trio64 and the Mach64 cards which shipped in AlphaStations should also work. I had a Mach64 going in an AlphaStation200 about a year ago. 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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