I have run X under NetBS/alpha v1.5.2 (AlphaPC 164) with good results
on a Matrox Millenium II.  I would suggest that the online
documentation is somewhat out of date.

      -Dave

On June 20, Mattias Karlsson wrote:
> Really?
> 
> After reading http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/alpha/faq.html#x-support I 
> thought running X with a VGA card wasn't supported.
> 
> Regards,
> Mattias.
> 
> 
> Staffan Thomen wrote:
> >  [ being a nice chap and snipping this awfully lengty reply chain ]
> > 
> >  You're not at a dead end, however I don't know about the TGA stuff. You
> >  can still run XFree, or atleast it works just great on my AlphaPC with a
> >  Matrox Mystique 220... (though it was quite a while since I ran it
> >  on that box, it's headless since a few years back)
> > 
> >  YMMW,
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Mattias Karlsson
> Mattias.Karlsson@sergei.cc
> SysAdm, http://www.sergei.cc
> 
> 

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Dave McGuire                  "Needing a calculator indicates that
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