Re: XFree86 on Digital PWS600au

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

any steps ahead? at least i am still interested...

On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 08:26 +0200, Michael Kronsteiner wrote:
> whatever, its a pci system, so Xdecnetbsd stuff is for sure not the
> server you want. it seems you need to do some package shuffling, and
> editing of config files. looking onto an X86 install might definitely
> help here, as pci alphas and wintels are quite similar
> 
> On Wed, 2016-09-07 at 20:54 +0200, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 7 Sep 2016, the wise Michael Kronsteiner wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 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
> > 
> > The original Powerstorm 4D60T isn't supported by any X version
> > afaik, 
> > that's why I replaced it for a Matrox G450PCI, which was supported
> > 10 
> > years ago.
> > 
> > The machine boots from an SRM console, BSD cannot boot from
> > AlphaBIOS 
> > (which was for WinNT only).
> >