Re: X on old (non-x86) Linux guests

[Thomas Huth]

On 26/04/2021 12.01, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> Hi,
>    Over the weekend I got a Red Hat 6.x (not RHEL!) for Alpha booting
> under QEMU which was pretty neat.  But I failed to find a succesful
> combination to get X working; has anyone any suggestions?
>
>    That distro was from around 2000; the challenge is since we don't have
> VESA on non-x86, we can't change mode that way, so generic XF86_SVGA
> doesn't want to play with any of the devices.
>
>    I also tried the ati device, but the accelerated mach64 driver
> didn't recognise that ID.
>
>    Has anyone found any combo that works?

Not sure if it is of any help, but IIRC the advent calendar image #4 from 
the 2014 edition also uses an ancient Red Hat image with X, and it still 
seems to be working with recent versions of QEMU:

 https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/2014/#day-4

Maybe you could copy the config from that image?

 Thomas