Re: XFree86 on Digital PWS600au

[Michael Kronsteiner <alphamike%gmx.at@localhost>]

Xdecnetbsd is afaik only good for (turbochannel?) framebuffer devices,
usually named P***. maybe your old card falls under this supported
models. do you use arm or alphabios? this might also make a difference.

its like falling out of a long sleep again, as you can see there is not
much action on this list


On Wed, 2016-09-07 at 11:49 +0200, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2016, the wise Michael Kronsteiner wrote:
> 
> > 
> > does your console look like "drawn" characters or more like simple
> > text 
> > mode? drawn is framebuffer, text mode is no graphics driver loaded 
> > "fallback" mode
> 
> Doesn't look like framebuffer to me, just typical console text.
> 
> > 
> > see?
> > 
> > maybe using it simple as VGA framebuffer does the trick. no 
> > accelleration then though.
> 
> Maybe I should try this first.
> 
> But I get the feeling that I'm missing something on this system. It 
> doesn't have the normal Xorg/Xfree86 installed but X is a symlink to 
> "XdecNetBSD", and there isn't a config file and it lokks like there
> are no 
> drivers installed in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules.
>