PWS 500au, Tru64 5.1B and Powerstorm 4D50T - is it possible?

From: Edi Weitz (edi_at_agharta.de)
Date: 03/18/04

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    Hi!

    I've just bought a used PWS 500au and installed the non-commercial
    "enthusiast" version of Tru64 5.1B on it.

    The machine has a Powerstorm 4D50T graphics adapter which doesn't seem
    to be supported out-of-the-box - setld -i doesn't show anything
    starting with "4D50". On my LCD screen (an old Sony SDM-N50) I only
    get 640x480 with very few colors.

    I looked around and found drivers for "5.1A or later" at

      <http://www.support.compaq.com/open3d/sw4d50t.htm>

    but can't install them. Essentially, my problems are described here:

      <http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=eb000708.0308261158.7f687e04%40posting.google.com>

    Unfortunately, nobody has answered this posting from last August. Does
    that mean there's no chance to get this hardware to work properly with
    5.1B? I'm prepared to work via X from another machine but that would
    be - for me - a sub-optimal solution.

    Thanks,
    Edi.

    Disclaimer: I'm completely new to Tru64 or Digital Unix although I
    have some years of experience with FreeBSD and Linux. I only want to
    use the Alpha to run Open Genera[1]. Another option might be to
    re-install Digital Unix 4.0F but I think in this case it will be hard
    (if not impossible) to have things like SSH and DHCP.

    [1] <http://www2.thecia.net/users/ptw/VLM.html>

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