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Re: X on old (non-x86) Linux guests
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Andrew Randrianasulu |
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Re: X on old (non-x86) Linux guests |
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Wed, 28 Apr 2021 16:18:10 +0300 |
On Wednesday, April 28, 2021, BALATON Zoltan <balaton@eik.bme.hu> wrote:
On Wed, 28 Apr 2021, Andrew Randrianasulu wrote:
On Wednesday, April 28, 2021, Andrew Randrianasulu <randrianasulu@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Monday, April 26, 2021, BALATON Zoltan <balaton@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 think alpha firmware is incomplete, not like real Alpha firmware..
I found you can try to install rh 7.1 on alpha from Hard drive or network (ftp/http)
But this requires network boot disk... Not sure from where you can get it...
Regards,
BALATON Zoltan
Re: X on old (non-x86) Linux guests, Gerd Hoffmann, 2021/04/26