On 26/04/2021 16:18, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > * Laurent Vivier (lviv...@redhat.com) wrote: >> 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? > > I hadn't, but how do I get it into fb mode - vga=ask doesn't work, so > again I don't think I can get into graphics.
In kernel 2.2, it seems to be "video=[FB]", perhaps video=atyfb ? thanks, Laurent