Subject: Re: X on AlphaStation 500?
To: None <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: Andrew van der Stock <ajv@greebo.net>
List: port-alpha
Date: 07/14/1999 13:15:47
I'm rejoining XFree86 to help with getting generic XFree86 support for the
Alpha going. This will be my pet project until it works. I was a member a
while ago - I helped some complete legends get the Matrox Millennium
working/debugged/reliable/really damn fast.

Andrew

----- Original Message -----
From: R. C. Dowdeswell <elric@mabelode.imrryr.org>
To: Sven Dietrich <spock@sled.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Cc: <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 05, 1999 8:21 AM
Subject: Re: X on AlphaStation 500?


>
> On 928534148 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
> Sven Dietrich wrote:
> >
> >Hi all,
> >
> >  I have successfully installed NetBSD 1.4 on an AS500, but now
> >I am trying to get X to work. Obviously from the docs, the TGA2
> >card is not supported. However it seems that the TGA2 has a Cirrus
> >Logic 5424 chipset, which is supported by XFree86. Building
> >XFree86 for NetBSD/alpha has been a nightmarish experience so far.
> >
> >  What video cards are supported? The TGA is. Besides that?
> >
> >Any pointers would be appreciated.
> >
> >Sven
> >
>
> Only the TGA in 8bit mode is supported at the moment.  I am currently
> working on the TGA2, which needs to be twiddled a little bit before
> it will work.  I expect to make some time to work on it towards
> the middle of the month, and I hope to have it working by the end
> of the month.  From my initial perusal of the TGA2 docs, I should
> be able to accelerate it to be quite a bit faster than the TGA.
>
> The TGA in 32bit mode should be supported later, as it is pretty
> similar.
>
> I am not sure about the timeline on generic XFree86 support, although
> there are a number of issues there to be solved.
>
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