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

[Laurent Vivier]

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?

Thanks,
Laurent