* Laurent Vivier (lviv...@redhat.com) 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? > > 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?
I hadn't, but how do I get it into fb mode - vga=ask doesn't work, so again I don't think I can get into graphics. Dave > Thanks, > Laurent -- Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilb...@redhat.com / Manchester, UK
