From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <001b01c0c828$612d9c40$1e8c1e42@ne.mediaone.net> From: "Richard Greenblott" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <001701c0c6e2$8d652ae0$1e8c1e42@ne.mediaone.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Nvidia video driver MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 12:55:30 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 84df8814-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Thanks for your help. I have now been able to view rio on my system. My next problem is how to install Plan9 to a hard drive. The drives I have on my system are located on a ATA100 board located in a PCI slot. I do remember that LINUX had problems finding drives that are not mounted directly to the motherboard. They did make changes in the driver to accept both IDE controllers. Do any one do the same yet with Plan9 or must I place boot drive as a Master on the IDE controller of the motherboard. PS the motherboards controller is only an ATA66 :( Thanks again for the help with my video card, now on to the next problem.... Rick G. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicholas Waples" Newsgroups: comp.os.plan9 Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 5:04 AM Subject: Re: [9fans] Nvidia video driver > > > On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Richard Greenblott wrote: > > > Ok. I still can not get this to work... > > One problem I have is that I can not rebuild software for Plan9 until I can > > load Plan9 (catch 22). > > I don't have a Plan9 system to build from... > > > > I have copied 9PCFLOP to the floppy and modified Vgadb on the same floppy as > > stated in my last posting. > > Is there anything else I can do? paurea@dei.inf.uc3m.es did say he had to > > rebuild the software to make it work. > > Is the posted files at http://members.optusnet.com.au/~nwaples/ Ok to use or > > do I need to rebuild them for my Video Board? > > > > Sorry for sounding like a broken record..... > > > > Thanks for any help you can give... > > > > Rick G. > > > > Well, as a test to make sure it all worked, I did it from scratch myself. > What i did was - > > - download and create the floppy from main plan9 site > > - modified vgadb on the floppy to add entry for my nvidia video card. > There was already an entry for nvidia cards (though it doesnt > seem to have been built in the kernel yet), so I just added the entry > for my card > > diff /tmp/vgadb vgadb > 300a301 > > 0xC0072="Diamond Viper V550" # NVIDIA TNT > > The nvidia section now looks like > > ctlr > 0xC00A2="NVIDIA TNT2 Model 64 BIOS V2.05.13 " # NVIDIA TNT Model 64 > 0xC0072="Diamond Viper V550" # NVIDIA TNT > link=vga > ctlr=nvidia linear=1 > hwgc=nvidiahwgc > > > - downloaded 9pcflop.gz from > http://members.optusnet.com.au/~nwaples/binaries/ , and replaced the > one on the boot floppy with this. > > > After this it all worked for me. > > The error message you saw, > > sequencer->enter on > sequencer->leave on > dbctlr: unknown controller "nvidia" ctlr > > would happen if the driver wasnt built into the kernel. That shouldnt > happen with the kernel I built. > I even uploaded the floppy image I used (nvidia.9fd) if you still cant > get it to work. > > > Nick. >