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I just picked up an old alphastation 500 on ebay and I'd like to |
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install gentoo on it. I've read over the handbook, but I have a few |
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questions. |
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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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- How does one upgrade the srm? I've not be able to find any |
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particularly clear instructions anywhere. DEC/Compaq/HP's |
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instructions seem to be about all there are and they are pretty vague. |
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They all talk about some firmware/sdk cdrom that you can boot to |
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upgrade. I haven't been able to find such a disc anywhere. Can I |
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just burn the fireware update .exe and .sys files to cdrom, or is some |
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special preparation required? |
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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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- how is 2.6.x kernel support on alpha? |
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Thanks! |
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Alex |
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