Subject: Re: 1.3.3 panic: multiple consoles?
To: Ross Harvey <ross@ghs.com>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 02/11/1999 03:46:19
On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 12:03:15AM -0800, Ross Harvey wrote:
> 
> The cannonical alpha video cards are the DEC PCI cards based on the 21030
> (TGA) chip: the ZLXp-E1, -E2, and -E3. NetBSD 1.3.x supports the -E1 card
> and the built-in video on the Multia. Constant change in the new machine-
> independent console driver has kept an X server from working in NetBSD-
> current, but that should change soon. (Uh oh, have I said that before? :-)
> 
> Why in the world would you want ISA video?

In order to avoid wasting a PCI slot on a text-only console?

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Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
	"And where do all these highways go, now that we are free?"