X on old (non-x86) Linux guests

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

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