On Nov 24, Liyun Yu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The biggest problem to me is that there is no Linux video driver for the > Alphas. We have tried to put Linux on the Alpha XP1000 workstations. > Eventually I give up the X windows application and put Debian on the > Alpha machines. It works great for me since I just need the console. > > What I did was that I went to Debian web site got the bootable cd iso > files, the installation was very intuitive. > > When I was on that project, I happen to know that there were some > vendors that will offer the video card for Alphas to replace the original > Video Card. The new video card will cost about $150 last year when > I checked them, and of course they comes with Linux drivers. > > If you check with the UUNET news group, or comp.unix.tru64, > there should be many threads leading to the right directions.
I have Debian Linux running on an Alpha XP1000, too, and IIRC there were 3 or 4 video cards available for that machine, two of which have no Linux drivers. Apparently Liyun and I have those. So, it cannot run an X server. However, remember that it can still run any X client, so you can ssh or telnet in to the Alpha machine from another machine and run an X app on the Alpha displaying back to the other machine. -- Neil Roeth _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss