* BALATON Zoltan (bala...@eik.bme.hu) wrote: > On Wed, 28 Apr 2021, Andrew Randrianasulu wrote: > > On Wednesday, April 28, 2021, Andrew Randrianasulu <randrianas...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > On Monday, April 26, 2021, BALATON Zoltan <bala...@eik.bme.hu> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 26 Apr 2021, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > > > > 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? > > > > > > > > > > > > > Adding Andrew who has experimented with old X framebuffer so he may > > > > remember something more but that was on x86. > > > > > > > > > > > > Sorry, I still away from my desktop (with notes/logs), not sure when > > > return.. > > > I do not think I tried something that old.. Kernel 2.2 i guess, before any > > > attempt at r128 drm Kernel module was written (in 2.4?) and so before ddx > > > attempted to use that (as it tries by default in much newer distros) > > Maybe it would work better with newer RedHat than 6.0? I think I've seen > images up to at least 7.1 that supported alpha but I don't know how to boot > them. I could get kernel and installer running with -kernel -initrd but did > not find the CD on the defailt CMD646 controller (seems to only have driver > for one SCSI controller) so I'm not sure how to try this. Trying to just > boot from the CD without -kernel -initrd it just stops after displaying > "Hello" in top left but that could be something about alpha firmware I don't > know how to use.
I ended up using -kernel/-initrd and passed the cdrom as an image to hdb rather than with -cdrom; as you say the cmd646 didn't like the cdrom. (Where I'm pretty sure my real Alpha does have a CDROM connected to it's cmd646). And none of the SCSI controllers would work. I'll make some notes on my command line this weekend and post them next week; I'll try the X suggestions as well. Dave > Regards, > BALATON Zoltan > -- Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilb...@redhat.com / Manchester, UK
