Hmm, weird.

I've searched port-alpha mailinglist for similar problems, some messages 
say Alpha does not need XF86Config, and that it should just "work".

But DOES X on Alpha really support VGA? You sure?
Hope so :)

I use 1.6B kernel and 1.5ZC userland, if that matters...

Since no configuration is made, I just try 'startx' which gives me this:

unable to get frame buffer info: Inappropriate ioctl for device
unable to get frame buffer info: Inappropriate ioctl for device
unable to get frame buffer info: Inappropriate ioctl for device
unable to get frame buffer info: Inappropriate ioctl for device
unable to get frame buffer info: Inappropriate ioctl for device

Fatal server error:
no screens found
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).


Regards,
Mattias.


Dave McGuire wrote:
>   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 documentation is somewhat out of date.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
>>
>>
> 
> 


-- 
Mattias Karlsson
Mattias.Karlsson@sergei.cc
SysAdm, http://www.sergei.cc