Re: XFree86 on Digital PWS600au

[Michael Kronsteiner <alphamike%gmx.at@localhost>]

whatever, its a pci system, so Xdecnetbsd stuff is for sure not the
server you want. it seems you need to do some package shuffling, and
editing of config files. looking onto an X86 install might definitely
help here, as pci alphas and wintels are quite similar

On Wed, 2016-09-07 at 20:54 +0200, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Sep 2016, the wise Michael Kronsteiner wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Xdecnetbsd is afaik only good for (turbochannel?) framebuffer
> > devices, 
> > usually named P***. maybe your old card falls under this supported 
> > models. do you use arm or alphabios? this might also make a
> > difference.
> > 
> > its like falling out of a long sleep again, as you can see there is
> > not 
> > much action on this list
> 
> The original Powerstorm 4D60T isn't supported by any X version
> afaik, 
> that's why I replaced it for a Matrox G450PCI, which was supported
> 10 
> years ago.
> 
> The machine boots from an SRM console, BSD cannot boot from
> AlphaBIOS 
> (which was for WinNT only).
>