I have had very good success with TNT2 PCI cards... also there is a list
of known working video cards at:
http://www.caseydoodle.com/cards.html

the site also has some useful info on getting x up and running on netbsd
alpha

-Jon

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, RMH wrote:

> 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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