Subject: Re: Blank screen
To: Mattias Karlsson <keihan@sergei.cc>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 06/20/2002 18:04:09
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documentation is somewhat out of date.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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