Dear list,

I successfully installed NetBSD 1.6R on a Personal Workstation 600au. This
machine is equipped with a

vga0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0: Texas Instruments TVP4020 Permedia 2 (rev. 0x01)
wsdisplay0 at vga0 (kbdmux ignored): console (80x25, vt100 emulation)

card (actually, this card was manufacted by ELSA) and run under DECunix.

Although I read on the NetBSD/alpha FAQ, that only very few cards are
supported for running an X server, I had quite some hope that this
information might be a bit outdated and I might get an X server run.

So I checked out xsrc out of cvs and compiled it (with several options),
but unfortunately still get:


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).

.. and I saw no was to configure X any further.


On the other hand, I find at

http://www.alphalinux.org/faq/FAQ-12.html

the following information:

>According to the XFree 3.3.3.1 Release Notes:
>
>The following X servers are available for Alpha hardware:
>
>          XMa64.tgz       Mach 64 server
>          XMono.tgz       Mono server (generic driver only)
>          XP9K.tgz        P9000 server
>          XTGA.tgz        DEC 21030 (TGA) server
>          XS3.tgz         S3 server
>          XS3V.tgz        old S3 ViRGE server (please use SVGA server)
>          XSVGA.tgz       SVGA server (Matrox Millennium and S3 ViRGE
>drivers only)

So I thought that I should get the card run at least on VGA mode.

Does NetBSD do something very different on alpha, which explains this? Or
does anybody has any further information / hints .. whatever?

Any input is very much welcome!

Cheers,

   Torsten


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<> Torsten Harenberg         harenberg@physik.uni-wuppertal.de  <>
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