Re: AlphaServer 4100 LCD
"Thomas Laus" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.alpha |
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| Organization | ABB |
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To: Kevin Ogden <[email protected]> > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:06:51PM -0400, Kevin Ogden wrote.. > > Is there any easy way to write anything to the built-in LCD on the > > AlphaServer 4x00? I was thinking of trying to write a script to display > > uptime/load averages/etc. Any sysctl variables or anything? > > You can change it from the SRM >>> prompt. Something like > >>> SET OCP_TEXT or similar. > > > Another question, is there really that much of a lack of interest in > keeping > > Yes, there is that much lack of interest. > > > alpha support going? This box is still a capable server and I really > > don't want to run Linux or Tru64 once FreeBSD 6 becomes stale. > > Water under the bridge. Unfortunately. > Kevin: You might want to try OpenBSD & NetBSD as well. The system layout is similar to FreeBSD and have additional hardware that may be supported in your AlphaServer. I was able to get my AlphaStation 255 to successfully boot this week with OpenBSD 4.1 that was released in March 2007. None of the FreeBSD 6.x releases would boot a GENERIC kernel for me and my AS255 was just too slow to perform an update and custom kernel build from source. I was previously running FreeBSD 4.11 which went EOL recently. A buildworld would take me about 30 hours with the debug symbols. I was going to try NetBSD next to see if I could boot the most recent GENERIC kernel on it. The various model Alpha's all seem to have their own little quirks and there is a lot of drivers don't 'play well' with each other. Tom -- Public Keys: PGP KeyID = 0x5F22FDC1 GnuPG KeyID = 0x620836CF _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-alpha To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"