Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 15:14:22 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: Ardelean Gheorghe <ardelean@ww.uni-erlangen.de>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install problems with FreeBSD on Alpha Server 2100, 5/250 Message-ID: <200107062214.f66MEMa02102@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Jul 2001 17:47:01 EDT." <15174.12757.755834.181525@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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> Mike Smith writes:
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> > > I think the Mylex and Qvision should be fine -- we should just ignore
> > > them.
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> > Actually, the Mylex will work just fine (with the mlx driver), and the
> > Qvision should just show up as a VGA card.
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> 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.
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