Could you elaborate more on the differences between AlphaXL and =
AlphaStations as far as architecture is concerned?
Concerning the Matrox Card, I made the same experience with FreeBSD on a =
Celebris XL, which comes with Matrox, and had to buy a commercial X =
Server from xinside. Anything like that for the Alpha-Port of NetBSD.

Thanx

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From: 	Matt Thomas[SMTP:matt@lkg.dec.com]
Sent: 	Friday, July 05, 1996 07:48 PM
To: 	Oliver Fehr
Cc: 	port-alpha@netbsd.org
Subject: 	Re: NetBSD on Alpha XL 300?=20


In  <01BB6A9E.66467090@hd48-210.compuserve.com> , you wrote:

> Hi all
>=20
> I'm thinking of buying an Alpha XL 300. Does NetBSD run on these =
machine.
> Is the new processor supported in NetBSD and OpenBSD, and what about =
the
> software? I'm also not sure if there is an X Server supporting the =
Matrox
> card. Can someone give me some information on that?

The Alpha XL's don't support the SRM console which is required for=20
NetBSD/alpha.  (Linux has it's own private PALcode which allows to avoid
this problem).  The Matrox card is not supported by XFree86 so it's not
usable as well.

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