m50d's Journal: Anyone got a spare alpha OS (or lives in the US)?

A few weeks ago I was amazingly lucky in acquiring an alphastation 600. Beautiful machine, and it's currently running gentoo very smoothly. However, it has a hulking graphics card (ZLXp-L) taking up two 64-bit pci slots which is currently acting as an 80x25 VGA card, because there is no open driver for the card. I either need to persuade a free os to use the xfree86 3.something version that digital supplies drivers for, or acquire a copy of openvms, tru64 or windows NT.

It looks like there's a way for people in the US to get a free copy of openvms. If you join encompass (http://www.encompassus.org/) as an associate member, you can get a hobbyist license (which is all I need). However, I'm living in the UK, so I don't have a valid US address with which to sign up for this.

So, is there anyone with a copy of an alpha OS they could give me? Or, would someone in the US be willing to get me a hobbyist copy of openvms by this method (if it works)?

LFS? :P

[WilliamSChips]

I either need to persuade a free os to use the xfree86 3.something version that digital supplies drivers for

You could use LFS. Or you could use Gentoo by tricking portage into thinking xfree had an ebuild installed even though you did it manually.

Re:LFS? :P

[m50d]

I am running gentoo, but it doesn't even want to support xfree86 at all any more. I'll have another fiddle with it when I get the chance.

Re:LFS? :P

[WilliamSChips]

I don't blame it for not wanting to support XFree86. Oh well...