[HECnet] VMS on zx6000 - argh?

[Mark Benson]

On 8 Jul 2011, at 00:03, Sampsa Laine wrote:

I _think_ this just means that OPA0: will be allocated to the serial port, not that DECWindows won't run - am I wrong?

So once it's all installed and running, you'll get a X session up on the graphics card - you just can't use it as a VMS OP console..

I had a dig and only the Radeon 7500 is supported in OpenVMS - mine has a FireGL X1.

Fun fact: If you install Debian Squeeze IA64 on a zx6000 with a FireGL X1 in Xorg thinks it's an IBM GXT6000P and configures it completely wrongly. So much for the magic of Xorg - bring back X11R6 and manual config files :)

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