Hello,
Before you try to get another card, know that I have run Xorg on an Alpha XL366 (XLT) with a Matrox Millennium II and a Matrox Mystique. Both ran well enough considering their age and the relative speed of the machine. I used the MGA driver.I have tried using a Matrox Millennium II video card in both MGA and VGA modes and have been getting an xfree86 server crash saying that the "screen is not found". [snip] I would like to know which video card is supported for a DEC Alpha by Debian Linux without having to modify the kernel? I am sure that someone is out there who is actually running a system like mine with a working video card? I would like to know the make and model of the card that you are using and the extent to which it works.
I got that message once too, and all I had to do was to specify the PCI BusID for the card. You can use lspci to get your card's BusID and then put it in your xorg.conf (or XF86Config-4.conf or something) in the device section. Search Google or read the conf file's man page for more details, I can't remember exactly.
The only pesky problem I got with those cards was graphical corruption everywhere on the screen when I would run Gnome. Under KDE everything was fine though. I no longer run anything graphical on that machine though, it was quite slow in X.
Good luck,
J-S
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