From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8368 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2004 21:38:56 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 3 Dec 2004 21:38:56 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CaL8i-0001sm-2n for arch-gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2004 21:38:56 +0000 Received: (qmail 28476 invoked by uid 89); 3 Dec 2004 21:38:55 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-alpha-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-alpha@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 7897 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2004 21:38:55 +0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=er861uD22QTVIpBTFVLb0IDz1jyaWuyZLPCA4AKuD2+6XM8KL1wQe0h2wsj13VZNBBlUVHD57pU6GKeEayU5kmTxxnxVy1C322a9iIrS5XqHA2x0YJpOUtnQ+UsuM0OP2zD67rX7cYKs59A2NvAk3jZ7LWxODljHDP95TxfMg4g= Message-ID: Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 16:38:53 -0500 From: Alex Deucher Reply-To: Alex Deucher To: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [gentoo-alpha] updating firmware, installing gentoo on alpha, etc. X-Archives-Salt: e5a18f46-d663-434c-8e63-1918f6499398 X-Archives-Hash: 5f3b680d9b20c33d24d905ed304d971b I just picked up an old alphastation 500 on ebay and I'd like to install gentoo on it. I've read over the handbook, but I have a few questions. - I'd like mess around with xorg on alpha. I'm running srm 6.7-2 and it won't post my pci radeon rv250, so for the time being I have an old s3 virge in there. does anyone have any experience with the newer srm (7.2) and radeon cards? I've heard arc/alphabios is better at posting video cards. Is there any truth to that? Also I seem to recall having read somewhere that milo or aboot will also post video cards if srm can't. Is this true? - How does one upgrade the srm? I've not be able to find any particularly clear instructions anywhere. DEC/Compaq/HP's instructions seem to be about all there are and they are pretty vague. They all talk about some firmware/sdk cdrom that you can boot to upgrade. I haven't been able to find such a disc anywhere. Can I just burn the fireware update .exe and .sys files to cdrom, or is some special preparation required? - stage 1/2 vs 3. have much of an improvement can I expect with ev5 binaries vs ev4? is it worth the extra time to do a stage 1/2 build? - how is 2.6.x kernel support on alpha? Thanks! Alex -- gentoo-alpha@gentoo.org mailing list