Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:11:04 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Don <don@calis.blacksun.org> Cc: Dirk Kleinhesselink <dkleinh@phy.ucsf.EDU>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help installing FreeBSD 4.0 on AlphaStation 200 Message-ID: <14507.7789.62902.372667@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002161651400.24859-100000@calis.blacksun.org> References: <Pine.OSF.3.95.1000216132649.2113A-100000@amadeus.ucsf.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002161651400.24859-100000@calis.blacksun.org>
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Don writes: > Seriously though, noone has had the time, or the inclination (given the > fact that the average virge card with s3 server outperforms the TGA hands > down) to bother supporting the card. It may come but few people see a > reason for it. Yes, when I side-graded a handful of AS500s and AS600s sitting in a public lab from Tru64 to FreeBSD, I gave thought to spending time writing console support. And then I realized that I could buy new Permedia-based cards to replace the TGAs in these four machines for less than $200US. I quickly gave up the idea of spending time on it in favor of working on OSF/1 compat. In all seriousness, if there is somebody out there who is willing to write console support for for the TGA, I will be happy to mail you a ZLXp-E1. I have a small stack getting dusty in my desk drawer. This would not be an impossible task for somebody who has a little C programming experience. There is documentation for the chip, and there are concrete examples of how to program it (NetBSD's wscons, I imagine linux must support it too). 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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