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Sven Dietrich wrote:
>
>Hi all,
>
>  I have successfully installed NetBSD 1.4 on an AS500, but now
>I am trying to get X to work. Obviously from the docs, the TGA2
>card is not supported. However it seems that the TGA2 has a Cirrus 
>Logic 5424 chipset, which is supported by XFree86. Building
>XFree86 for NetBSD/alpha has been a nightmarish experience so far.
>
>  What video cards are supported? The TGA is. Besides that?
>
>Any pointers would be appreciated.
>
>Sven
>

Only the TGA in 8bit mode is supported at the moment.  I am currently
working on the TGA2, which needs to be twiddled a little bit before
it will work.  I expect to make some time to work on it towards
the middle of the month, and I hope to have it working by the end
of the month.  From my initial perusal of the TGA2 docs, I should
be able to accelerate it to be quite a bit faster than the TGA.

The TGA in 32bit mode should be supported later, as it is pretty
similar.

I am not sure about the timeline on generic XFree86 support, although
there are a number of issues there to be solved.

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