PWS 433au FreeBSD 5.3

[William H. Magill]

On 09 Mar, 2005, at 02:01, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:59:16PM -0600, Rich O. wrote..
>> 	I was just wondering if there's anyway that I can get a tga/tga2
>> driver to work with my personal workstation on FreeBSD 5.3. It worked 
>> fine
>> in 5.2.1, I assume the tga driver was pulled between these releases? 
>> It's
>> the only video card I have available for this machine.
>
> It was indeed pulled because it tended to cause machine crashes, and
> none of the developers felt like trying to figure that out and/or
> had the hardware to do so.
>
>> 	Any help would be greatly appreciated. Or I suppose even a video
>> card recommendation that would be known to work with the PWS 433au and
>> FreeBSD 5.3.
>
> An old Matrox Millenium II served me wel.  But I also used various
> no-name S3 cards successfully.  No longer have a PWS myself.

Generally speaking, the Matrox Millennium seems to be the board of 
preference.

This is from the Alpha-Linux list over at Red-Hat...
Jay Estabrook is the Compaq/HP person who has been involved with 
Alpha-Linux support for several years now.

There is a recent thread: "Digital PWS433au + Matrox G450 PCI"

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Jay Estabrook <jay.estabrook at hp.com>
> Date: 08 October, 2004 15:40:14 EDT
> To: Linux and Red Hat on Alpha processors <axp-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: Digital PWS433au + Matrox G450 PCI
> Reply-To: Linux and Red Hat on Alpha processors <axp-list at redhat.com>
>
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 08:19:49PM -0600, Buck Rekow wrote:
>>
>> anyone ever had luck with ATI rage cards?
>
> Yes, or rather, with an ATI Rage 128 card, as that was the first card
> available to me that had 3D support in XFree86 AND was acceptable to
> the SRM console (at least on machines newer than PC164).
>
>> my PC164 won't boot with one..
>
> I'm not too surprised, if you are using SRM console. Its BIOS emulator
> was pretty limited.
>
> However, I HAVE had good luck on a PC164 running from ARC/MILO with an
> ATI Rage 128 (and maybe a Radeon), as well as a Voodoo3 3000, AND
> getting the 3D support in RH 7.2 for Alpha to function. The PC164 is
> the only "sparse" Alpha that I've been able to get 3D to work on,
> although I may not have tried others under MILO...
>
> So, you need to decide whether SRM or 3D is more important to you... 
> ;-}
>
>  --Jay++
>
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William H. Magill
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