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? > I suspect using one of the existing devices, lying about PCI ID, and > then turning off all accelerations might have a chance but I've not got > that far. > > [Alpha took a bit of a fight; none of the SCSI controllers were > happy, but the CMD646 worked well enough to install off a CD image > from a -kernel passed in ] >
Did you try to use kernel framebuffer with X fbdev driver? Thanks, Laurent
