Subject: Re: tga graphic cards
To: None <wulf@ping.net.au>
From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 10/13/1999 21:21:44
Berndt Josef Wulf writes:
> G'day,
>
> I call a AXPpci33 my own for more than 3 years and was hoping that
> a xserver supporting standard vga-pci cards may become available at
> some point in time. This doesn't appear to become reality and I am now
> looking to purchase a tga-pci card allowing me to run local Xsessions
> on this system.
>
> Does anyone know a supplier which sells those elusive tga pci cards
> suitable for installation in an AXPpci33 box? Possibly to a price I
> can afford? I've never seen any of these cards being offered for sale
> or advertised in Australia.
>
This is almost funny.
We should set up some sort of NetBSD/alpha <-> FreeBSD/alpha video
card exchange. Those of use running FreeBSD/alpha can run XFree86 on
standard PCI VGA hardware, but we don't have a console driver for
TGAs...
Sigh...
Drew
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