questions about alpha
Alex Deucher
alexdeucher at gmail.com
Fri Dec 3 21:42:45 UTC 2004
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.
- ecu seems to be required to enable the sound card on AS500. Is that
an srm utility, an external utility, or something I run from linux?
- has anyone tried alphacore on AS500?
- I'd like mess around with xorg on alpha. I'm running srm 6.7-2 and
it won't post my pci radeon 9000, so for the time being I have an old
s3virge 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 is
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 files to cdrom, or is some special
preparation required?
Thanks,
Alex
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