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Hi Alex, |
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> - I'd like mess around with xorg on alpha. I'm running srm 6.7-2 and |
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> it won't post my pci radeon rv250, so for the time being I have an old |
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> s3 virge in there. does anyone have any experience with the newer srm |
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> (7.2) and radeon cards? I've heard arc/alphabios is better at posting |
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> video cards. Is there any truth to that? Also I seem to recall |
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> having read somewhere that milo or aboot will also post video cards if |
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> srm can't. Is this true? |
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I have an XLT-300 which only has Alphabios (no SRM). So far I have used it |
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only with an S3 768 card and a Matrox Millenium II, both worked fine, but |
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only if I seated the card in the first PCI slot. I have no experience with |
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newer video cards. |
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>From what I've read, people who have the choice generally prefer to use |
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SRM, since Milo (the Alphabios boot loader) is not very well supported |
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anymore. I had a very hard time finding a Milo that would boot 2.4 kernels |
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on my XLT. I haven't been able to boot kernels above 2.4.21 |
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(alpha-sources) at all on my XLT, even though they compile just fine. |
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> - stage 1/2 vs 3. have much of an improvement can I expect with ev5 |
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> binaries vs ev4? is it worth the extra time to do a stage 1/2 build? |
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If I were you, I'd go for a stage 3 installation first, you can always |
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redo the installation after you've played with it for a while and are |
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confident that everything works. I did a stage 1 myself, it took many |
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hours... |
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I don't know how much improvement you'll get with ev5 over ev4. If you are |
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keen to get the most out of your alpha and feel adventurous, use CCC |
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(Compaq C Compiler): |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-alpha-compaq-tools.xml |
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> - how is 2.6.x kernel support on alpha? |
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The gentoo-dev-sources and development-sources ebuilds are marked ~alpha: |
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http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=gentoo-dev-sources |
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http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=development-sources |
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Unfortunately, my XLT refuses to boot any of those kernels... |
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Marnix. |
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