Subject: Re: X + vga
To: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
List: port-alpha
Date: 02/18/2000 08:05:13
Frank van der Linden wrote:

> Since I think the lack of X support for VGA cards in NetBSD/alpha is
> losing it users, I want to bring this subject up again.
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
> It has been quiet on this front for a while.
> [ ... ]
> Simon Burge mentioned that he might look into it, but
> I haven't seen anything about that.

I got to the stage where I thought I had most of the FreeBSD goo to
support access to the PCI registers and running SuperProbe managed
to panic the box everytime.  I haven't looked at this recently though.
I can make the diffs available to anyone who's interested...

Simon.