On 26/04/2021 12.01, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
Hi,
Over the weekend I got a Red Hat 6.x (not RHEL!) for Alpha booting
under QEMU which was pretty neat. But I failed to find a succesful
combination to get X working; has anyone any suggestions?
That distro was from around 2000; the challenge is since we don't have
VESA on non-x86, we can't change mode that way, so generic XF86_SVGA
doesn't want to play with any of the devices.
I also tried the ati device, but the accelerated mach64 driver
didn't recognise that ID.
Has anyone found any combo that works?
Not sure if it is of any help, but IIRC the advent calendar image #4 from
the 2014 edition also uses an ancient Red Hat image with X, and it still
seems to be working with recent versions of QEMU:
https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/2014/#day-4
Maybe you could copy the config from that image?
Thomas
