> On Jun 21, William Brioschi scrawled :
> First, I want to thank all those who answered my previous posting
> about the RAM for an Alphastation 255. I bought four 16 meg parity
> SIMMs and now I have a perfectly working workstation.
>
much coolness, welcome to the party!
<snip scsi stuff>
don't know, sounds good, others may provide more info.
> Second: on board sound chip. What is it? Is it supported?
>
it is. It is the Microsoft Sound system. Enable it via srm console with
>>>add_sound
and compile in kernel support for OSS_Sound_modules and MSS.
works for me pretty good :)
/aside.
When I do a cat /dev/sndstat, it give both Microsoft Sound supprot, as well as
> Compaq Deskpro XL
does anyone know what this means. The card works Okay for everthing, but it
bugs me a little that it shows 2 cards being present.
Fourth: video card. I have a TGA2 (Powerstorm 3d30), in VGA
> emulation mode. I can't have it turn on the monitor in native
> mode. Not even thinking of frame buffer or X. Is there support
> for it any way? Or, is it any way compatible to TGA? Or, are
> specifications available? maybe I could write fb support.
>
*shrug* I had one for a while, and swapped it for a Matrox Millenium.
X does not go on th TGA2 , and has no chance ever from what I have heard.
I found that it was very usedful for a console though.
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