Subject: Re: tga graphic cards
To: None <wulf@ping.net.au>
From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 10/13/1999 21:21:44
Berndt Josef Wulf writes:
 > G'day,
 > 
 > I call a AXPpci33 my own for more than 3 years and was hoping that
 > a xserver supporting standard vga-pci cards may become available at
 > some point in time. This doesn't appear to become reality and I am now
 > looking to purchase a tga-pci card allowing me to run local Xsessions
 > on this system.
 > 
 > Does anyone know a supplier which sells those elusive tga pci cards
 > suitable for installation in an AXPpci33 box? Possibly to a price I
 > can afford? I've never seen any of these cards being offered for sale 
 > or advertised in Australia.
 > 

This is almost funny.

We should set up some sort of NetBSD/alpha <-> FreeBSD/alpha video
card exchange.  Those of use running FreeBSD/alpha can run XFree86 on
standard PCI VGA hardware, but we don't have a console driver for
TGAs...

Sigh...

Drew
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