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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha/proc-alpha.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha/proc-alpha.sgml index 531f6dc..1d9fa6c 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha/proc-alpha.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha/proc-alpha.sgml @@ -527,6 +527,9 @@ cpu EV4</programlisting> <para>Multia has enough Flash ROM to store both SRM and ARC code at the same time and allow software selection of one of them.</para> + <para>The embeded TGA video adapter is <emphasis>not</emphasis> currently + usable as a &os; console. You will need to use a serial console.</para> + <para>Multia has only one 32 bit PCI slot for expansion, and it is only suitable for a small form factor PCI card. By sacrificing the PCI slot space you can mount a 3.5" hard disk @@ -1706,6 +1709,23 @@ cd0: 250.000MB/s transfers (250.000MHz, offset 12)</programlisting> cards. SIMMs are installed in sets of 8. Both memory daughter cards must be populated identically.</para> + <para>Note that both AS500 and AS600 are EISA machines. This means + you have to run the EISA Configuration Utility (ECU) from floppy + after adding EISA cards or to change things like the configuration + settings of the onboard I/O. For AS500 which does not have a physical + EISA slot the ECU is used to configure the onboard sound interface + etc.</para> + + <para>AS500 onboard sound can be used by adding a line like</para> + + <programlisting>device pcm</programlisting> + + <para>to the kernel configuration file.</para> + + <para>Using the ECU I configured my AS500 to use IRQ10, port 0x530 + and drq 0. You will need to specify this in your hints file, and + the uncommon flags 0x10011 as well.</para> + <para>AS600 has a peculiarity for its PCI slots. AS600 (or rather the PCI expansion card containing the SCSI adapters) does not allow I/O port mapping, therefore all devices behind it must use memory mapping. If you @@ -3075,6 +3095,11 @@ cpu EV5</programlisting> Please note that VESA modes are not supported on Alpha, so that leaves you with 80x25 consoles.</para> + <para>In some Alpha machines you will find video adapters based + on TGA chips. The plain TGA adapter does not emulate VGA and is + therefore not usable for a &os; console. TGA2 cards have a basic + VGA compatibility mode and work fine as &os; consoles.</para> + <para>The <quote>PC standard</quote> serial ports found on most Alphas are supported. For TurboChannel machines the serial ports are also supported.</para> |
