re: XFree86 on Digital PWS600au

[Marco Beishuizen <mbeis%xs4all.nl@localhost>]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2016, the wise matthew green wrote:

> there's a full release built with xorg-server and netbsd-7 alpha at the 
> above lcoatoin.  installing this (or just the x*.tgz sets) should be all 
> you need to do.  perhaps try it via http:
>
> http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/mrg/alpha/netbsd-7-20160907/alpha/
>
> pkgsrc xorg-server is missing patches for alpha it seems (and probably 
> several other ports), but it may not be that difficult to fix it 
> currently as we it building in the xsrc tree in -current.

Thanks. I finally managed to upgrade my system with the sets above. Xorg 
doesn't start though because of some errors. The chipset of the videocard 
is correctly recognized as "mgag400" (G450). But then:

...
[  1471.647] (EE) MGA(0): Unable to map Framebuffer 90000000 2000000. 
Invalid argument (22)
...
[  1471.687] (WW) MGA(0): Could not retrieve video BIOS!
[  1471.687] (EE) MGA(0): Unable to detect video RAM.
...
[  1471.689] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
[  1471.689]
Fatal server error:
[  1471.689] no screens found
...

Regards,
Marco
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