* Thomas Huth (th.h...@posteo.de) wrote: > 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?
That's using the VESA driver, which we generally don't have on non-x86. Dave > Thomas > -- Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilb...@redhat.com / Manchester, UK
