Subject: Re: problem with AlphaStation 255 frame buffer
To: Riccardo Veraldi <Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it>
From: Wes Kurdziolek <wkurdzio@cslab.vt.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 04/08/2001 20:08:34
That's a video card with video chipset from S3, not a DEC TGA video card.
Try the S3 and S3V servers.

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Wes Kurdziolek
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On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Riccardo Veraldi wrote:

>
> Hello,
> I have a PCI number 9 Trio 64 frame buffer on my AlphaStation 255
> (233MHz).
> X11 server does not work
>
> cannot find frame buffer: Inappropriate ioctl for device ??
> Is it normal ??
> only ZLXp-E1  is supported ??? this is the reason ?
> Any plan to support more cards ?
> Actually these machines can virtually run with many PCI video cards.
>
> Then seems also the generic kernel does not support kernfs file system.
> Is it normal ??
>
> thanks a lot!
>
> Rick
>
>