Hi Darren, CC'ing Magnus who is actively working on resolving bugs on Alpha upstream.
On Sun, 2026-03-08 at 21:24 +1100, Darren Goossens wrote: > > > Please test and report back > > Thanks for the media. > > I have an alphaserver 1200. 1gb ram, 2 CPUs, ev56, so has bwx. Great! > To try new images, I have to add qlogic firmware to the initrd on the iso, > but when I do that I get a successful installation. Including non-free firmware to the installer images for Debian Ports is still on my TODO list. I have already done some work in this regard, but it's not trivial. > Installation went smoothly and I can add software from the repo. No unaligned > trap stuff. Very clean. Thanks! Good to hear, thanks for the feedback! > I find it that the aboot installation did not work automatically and I did it > manually by exiting the installer to the command line, but that might have > been > my error. aboot needs indeed some work, yes. But we're aware of it and already did some work. > I have yet to try SMP kernel, I think I read somewhere it is not working? Its > in > the repo and I will try it, it is a 2 processor machine. SMP would be pretty > nice. SMP should work fine these days if you are using a recent kernel (6.16 or newer IIRC). > As you might imagine, xorg server is not working. Not really important. I > have tried > old matrox g200 and cirrus. Just to see. I also have a trio64 somewhere.. > The matroxfb > framebuffer does work, fwiw, but that's as far as I got. Actual MGA and > cirrus xorg > drivers I could not get to work. I don't know much about that stuff. Check the log in /var/log/Xorg.0.log and see if you can find any messages with "(EE)". X.org should work. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
