Subject: Re: One more time: help with X on 5000/200 PMAG-C
To: Eyal Lebedinsky , port-pmax list NetBSD <port-pmax@netbsd.org>
From: Chris <talon16m@hotmail.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 11/15/2000 18:46:13
on 11/15/00 6:29 PM, Eyal Lebedinsky at eyal@eyal.emu.id.au wrote something
like:

> Installed 1.5_BETA2. X seems to be looking for /dev/fb0 which I think
> I do not have (do have the file, but not the device).
> 
> How do I set up and start X on this machine?
> 
> the 1.5 docs says this video card is now supported. Is it possibly
> missing from the BETA cycle, to be included only later?
> 
> TIA
> 
> --
> Eyal Lebedinsky  (eyal@eyal.emu.id.au)
> 


    PMAG-C and higher are not supported by X in NetBSD yet. Up until
recently, even trying to start X would crash your machine on a PX/PXG card.
You need a PMAGB-B to get the best out of X on a pmax box for the time
being.


    Chris