Hi,

Since recently I do own an alpha 200/4 100 computer. The first step was
deleting the preinstalled linux ;-).

(1) Unfortunately, the X server doesn't work for me. The graphics card
and monitor did a good job under linux. This should imply that they must
also work under netbsd (same XFree source, I guess).

booting says:
----------------------------------------------------------------
tga0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0: DC21030 step C, board type T8-02
tga0: 1284 x 1024, 8bpp, Bt485 RAMDAC
tga0: interrupting at isa irq 10
wsdisplay0 at tga0: console (std, vt100 emulation)
----------------------------------------------------------------

the monitor is a dec vrc 21 - HA


When starting X under netbsd I can "recognize" the screen, but
everything is very distorted. A timing problem, I guess. There are no
(intel-pc like) Xconfig files, aren't there? 

Any help?


(2) The text console doesn't occupy all the space on the monitor but
just a small percentage. My 21" monitor looks now like a 14" monitor. Is
there a way to enlarge the viewable area?


(3) oh, what about emacs on these machines. The binary from
ftp.netbsd.org works, but compiling it by myself from scratch dies with
a 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dumping under names emacs and emacs-20.7.1
emacs: Couldn't find segment next to .bss in
/usr/local/compile/emacs-20.7/src/temacs
make[1]: *** [emacs] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/compile/emacs-20.7/src'
make: *** [src] Error 2
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I have never seen this before. How come?


(4) To be honest, I am a little bit disappointed by the speed of this
machine. First impression, it behaves like a pentium with 40MHz (judeing
by meassuring compilation speed of the joe editor under alpha and
intel-pc). In particular the harddrive behaves like a floppy drive. very
very slow. is this probably because of a slow harddrive, or is it
because of - god forbid - netbsd, or because of the alpha design? It's
SCSI, I guess.


(5) are folks happy with the elf linker? right now I am not really
convinced. most configure scripts know nothing about -rpath. often it's
easy to fix, but some larger packages aren't that easy to convince that
-L isn't enough.

comments are welcome. As you might guess, (1) is my biggest concern!


Cheers
- Stefan


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