Re: X on old (non-x86) Linux guests

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Laurent Vivier (lvivier@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.

Dave

> Thanks,
> Laurent
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK