moonshine_religion wrote (in a message from Friday 31) > Can anyone tell me where I can find information on XFree86 support for > DEC Alpha based machines. I am trying to troubleshoot X problems on an > alpha server but I can't find any info on this platform.
XFree86 code and drivers are mostly platform independant. Most of the general documentation applies to alpha as well as ix86 (and other) architectures. I fear the only documentation of the alpha MD code is the source. That is mostly in xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/bsd/bsd_video.c and xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/shared/xf86Axp.c in your case. > I have installed FreeBSD 4.7 on an > AlphaServer 1200 5/533 with the latest SRM installed. The AlphaServer > has the standard PowerStorm 4D10T PCI video card which is a 3DLabs > Permedia2 chipset and TI TVP4020C RAMDAC w/ 8Mb onboard. The version of > XFree86 is 4.2.1 as supplied in the ISO package. This platform should work under FreeBSD AFAIK. > There appears to be a > card description and driver for this hardware but the server still > fails. Thanks for your assistance. You should provide more information on the problems you're seeing. It's not possible to diagnose what's wrong with so little information. Looking at /var/log/XFree86.0.log for obvious error messages is the first step. If you don't find anything obvious, send it to this list, along with other information that may be relevant (like are you using startx or xdm to launch the server, dmesg command output,...) If you don't have that file, then the X server is not even starting and the problem is not in the X server itself. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
