All right, now I know, at least, that the problem isn't specific to
me only. I shall keep digging for substitute video cards, maybe even
find an ancient TGA card, it's supposed to have a better support...
On the other hand, I have a choice to try some fixing attempts (well,
if it works under FreeBSD, why shouldn't it work under NetBSD?), and
so on...

Have just made a desperate attempt on installing an ISA video card,
and received a kernel panic right from the start:

panic: pci_display_console: no device at 255/255/0

Regards,
Rhett

 --- David Hopper <dhop@nwlink.com> has written: 
> I can't comment about the 164LX, except to say that there's quite a lot  
> about X + the 164LX on the mailing list.  I am using a  
> currently-available ATI 9200 SE PCI card in my 600au, with  
> NetBSD-current and the default XFree86-4.4.  Works right out of the  
> box, as it were.
> 
> Begin with the mailing list.  Apologies for the mangled URL:
> 
> http://www.google.com/custom? 
> q=164LX+XFree86&cof=L%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.NetBSD.org%2Fimages%2FNetBSD- 
> smaller.png%3BLH%3A200%3BLW%3A200%3BAH%3Acenter%3BAWFID%3A4f6b0499f0f58d 
> 2c%3B&domains=mail-index.NetBSD.org&sitesearch=mail-index.NetBSD.org
> 
> Dave
> 
> On Feb 6, 2005, at 3:08 PM, Lars Nordlund wrote:
> 
> > Sat 2005-02-05 klockan 02:30 +0000 skrev RMH:
> >> Hello gentlemen,
> >>
> >> although my question is somewhat off-topic, I haven't found a
> >> better place to ask. The problem is, that I'm unable to
> >> launch XFree86-4.4.0 on AlphaPC 164LX with NetBSD 2.0.
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > Have you seen these pages:
> >
> > http://www.caseydoodle.com/cards.html
> >
> > http://www.caseydoodle.com/index1.html
> >
> >
> > I do not know how far one has to go to get the same kind of X11 support
> > in NetBSD as are available in other free OSes. I am also in your
> > situation (164LX and non-working X) and have thought about getting one
> > of the cards known to be good for NetBSD/alpha. They are a bit hard to
> > find though..
> >
> > Best regards
> > 	Lars Nordlund
> >


	
	
		
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