RE: FrameBuffers
King of Framebuffers ........ I wish (-:
Last night I tried to install an other brand of linux (shall remain nameless
but there is a "hat" involved) because I have had problems getting hold of
potato for alpha. I assume that my problems are generic rather than with the
"hatted" brand.
When booting the AlphaServer 1000A from SRM with a CD the GUI install the
screen goes blank as it the VGA card is not supported. After replacing the
VGA card with a more generic Cirrus card all went well ... almost (a story
for another day). The screen went blank also when booting with the Voodoo3.
I have heard it rumoured that Alphas have problems with fancy video cards
.... is this true? Should I just go back to Potato for Sparc? Are Alpha's
too much hassle?
Cheers
Iain
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-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher C. Chimelis [mailto:chris@debian.org]
Sent: 06 September 2000 16:08
To: JOHNSTONE,IAIN (A-Scotland,ex1)
Cc: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: FrameBuffers
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, JOHNSTONE,IAIN (A-Scotland,ex1) wrote:
> Are there limitations on what king of framebuffer can be useds on Alphas
...
> in particular can I use my Voodoo3 3000 in my AS 1000A?
King of framebuffers? Wish I had one of those!
All joking aside, there are only a few "framebuffer" drivers that work on
Alpha (that is, using the framebuffer device driver). I just quickly
looked in the kernel docs and the only ones that I could find listed are
the Matrox and TGA framebuffer drivers (the docs may be outdated, though).
HOWEVER, this does NOT preclude you from using that card in an Alpha. In
fact, most Voodoo3 cards are known to work in Alphas (I haven't heard of
one that doesn't yet), although we don't have an X server for them
yet in the stable tree of Debian. You could compile one, however, if
you're so inclined to install XFree86 4.0.x.
C
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