From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, richard.henderson@linaro.org,
balaton@eik.bme.hu, kraxel@redhat.com
Subject: X on old (non-x86) Linux guests
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 11:01:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YIaPdjz7PpvwVPP/@work-vm> (raw)
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 ]
Dave
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK
next reply other threads:[~2021-04-26 10:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-26 10:01 Dr. David Alan Gilbert [this message]
2021-04-26 13:48 ` X on old (non-x86) Linux guests Thomas Huth
2021-04-26 14:14 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2021-04-26 14:04 ` Laurent Vivier
2021-04-26 14:18 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2021-04-26 14:54 ` Laurent Vivier
2021-04-26 15:26 ` BALATON Zoltan
2021-04-28 1:19 ` Andrew Randrianasulu
2021-04-28 1:37 ` Andrew Randrianasulu
2021-04-28 12:04 ` BALATON Zoltan
2021-04-28 13:18 ` Andrew Randrianasulu
2021-04-28 13:44 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2021-04-29 1:07 ` BALATON Zoltan
2021-05-04 11:07 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2021-04-26 15:53 ` Gerd Hoffmann
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