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Re: X on old (non-x86) Linux guests
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Laurent Vivier |
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Re: X on old (non-x86) Linux guests |
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Mon, 26 Apr 2021 16:04:19 +0200 |
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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
- X on old (non-x86) Linux guests, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, 2021/04/26
- Re: X on old (non-x86) Linux guests, Thomas Huth, 2021/04/26
- Re: X on old (non-x86) Linux guests,
Laurent Vivier <=
- Re: X on old (non-x86) Linux guests, BALATON Zoltan, 2021/04/26
- Re: X on old (non-x86) Linux guests, Andrew Randrianasulu, 2021/04/27
- Re: X on old (non-x86) Linux guests, Andrew Randrianasulu, 2021/04/27
- Re: X on old (non-x86) Linux guests, BALATON Zoltan, 2021/04/28
- Re: X on old (non-x86) Linux guests, Andrew Randrianasulu, 2021/04/28
- Re: X on old (non-x86) Linux guests, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, 2021/04/28
- Re: X on old (non-x86) Linux guests, BALATON Zoltan, 2021/04/28
Re: X on old (non-x86) Linux guests, Gerd Hoffmann, 2021/04/26