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Re: X on old (non-x86) Linux guests
From: |
Dr. David Alan Gilbert |
Subject: |
Re: X on old (non-x86) Linux guests |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Apr 2021 15:14:18 +0100 |
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Mutt/2.0.6 (2021-03-06) |
* Thomas Huth (th.huth@posteo.de) 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?
>
> Not sure if it is of any help, but IIRC the advent calendar image #4 from
> the 2014 edition also uses an ancient Red Hat image with X, and it still
> seems to be working with recent versions of QEMU:
>
> https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/2014/#day-4
>
> Maybe you could copy the config from that image?
That's using the VESA driver, which we generally don't have on non-x86.
Dave
> Thomas
>
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK
- X on old (non-x86) Linux guests, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, 2021/04/26
- Re: X on old (non-x86) Linux guests, Thomas Huth, 2021/04/26
- Re: X on old (non-x86) Linux guests,
Dr. David Alan Gilbert <=
- Re: X on old (non-x86) Linux guests, Laurent Vivier, 2021/04/26
- Re: X on old (non-x86) Linux guests, BALATON Zoltan, 2021/04/26
- Re: X on old (non-x86) Linux guests, Andrew Randrianasulu, 2021/04/27
- Re: X on old (non-x86) Linux guests, Andrew Randrianasulu, 2021/04/27
- Re: X on old (non-x86) Linux guests, BALATON Zoltan, 2021/04/28
- Re: X on old (non-x86) Linux guests, Andrew Randrianasulu, 2021/04/28
- Re: X on old (non-x86) Linux guests, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, 2021/04/28
- Re: X on old (non-x86) Linux guests, BALATON Zoltan, 2021/04/28