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jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:
>
>Are virtual consoles not supported on alpha or is this just an other
>bug? 

NetBSD does not [yet] support virtual terminals on frame buffer
devices.  This is something else that I've been looking into a
little bit.

>>>And: Is there a way to configure the SRM console to use 1280x1024@72Hz
>>>instead of the standard VGA 720x400@70Hz?
>> I don't think that you get to do this one.
>That is bad. I think this new AlphaStations are more PCs with an Alpha
>CPU than real workstations. :-(

Well, the ZLXp-E[123] do work in the right way, but the TGA2 moved
into the assumption that you'd be using a multi-sync monitor so,
although the accelerations work in pretty much the same way, it
has a built in VGA chip that is used by default.

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