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

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>]

* 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