Re: TGA and Blade 0.3

Jay Estabrook - Alpha Migration Tools - LINUX Project (jestabro@brillig.amt.tay1.dec.com)
Fri, 08 Dec 95 14:55:19 -0500


> Does Blade 0.3/MILO work with a TGA video card?

I believe the only MILO in BLADE-0.3 with TGA support configured in, is the
one for UDB (stands for Universal Desktop Box).

Note that the UDB is called MULTIA when NT is running on it, and UDB when
LINUX is running. This is because the name MULTIA has been so closely
associated with NT since it's (MULTIA's) inception, and no other DEC OS
(UNIX and VMS) has been supported on it.

Note also that UDB and NONAME (AXPpci33) are identical, as far as the kernel
is concerned, so if you had a TGA in a NONAME, you could use the UDB MILO.
(It's actually how I first started working with the TGA... :-)

Similarly, if you plugged a PCI S3-based VGA card into the UDB's single PCI
slot, you could use NONAME MILO and a NONAME kernel on it to run with the
VGA, even X, although you'd lose the sound support (unless specifically
built into the NONAME kernel).

If there's a real need for some alternate configurations, like CABRIO with
TGA or UDB with VGA, please let us know, and we'll see if we can accomodate
you. Please include with any such request the *full* machine configuration,
since CABRIOs are starting to appear with different SCSI and/or Ethernet
cards than what the "default" configuration may be.

--Jay++

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