[CLUE-Tech] Alpha video and OpenBSD.

[Dave Anselmi]

We had some trouble with OpenBSD on an alpha at the installfest.  The
monitors couldn't handle the video mode it tried to use (that's for the
console, not X or anything).

It seems that OpenBSD's terminal stack uses the video card's settings,
which are not standard VGA.  There is a 16 position switch on the card
that sets this - put it on B for best results.  Once you get up and
running, you can read the tga man page for a list of video modes.

The man pages say something about this affecting X resolution too.  So
that may have been part of my problem when I tried X on debian.

Dave