Re: [9fans] ATI video install problems

Re: [9fans] ATI video install problems

[Russ Cox]

> FWIW, if/when I get Plan9 installed, I'm especially interested in playing
> around with Python and writing Plan9 extensions for Python.  What's the
> latest status on Python & Plan9?  I might be able to help w/ the port having
> used Python a fair bit and being somewhat familiar w/ the internals...

I have what appears to be a fairly solid Python port.
I've used it for one big project and it's been fine.
Boyd did a backport of it to the currently released 
system a month or so ago.  If you search the archives
you'll find it.

Russ

Re: [9fans] ATI video install problems

[Russ Cox]

The Savage4-based cards are reasonably well supported.
I use Diamond Stealth III S540s in my desktop systems.
It's a two-year-old card now, but still younger than the 
Xpert98.  If you find another card with a Savage4 chip in it,
it is probably easy to add; the same is not necessarily true 
of the Mach64 chip, which requires a lot more busy work
programming memory timings and such.

Russ

Re: [9fans] ATI video install problems

[John E. Barham]

Hello,

Hope you don't mind my emailing you, but it seems my original post and at
least one reply got lost en route to news:comp.lang.python.  Am I better off
using the mailing list?

Can I assume from the below that my ATI Rage 128 Pro card is not supported?

Thanks too for your info on Python.

John


----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.plan9
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 7:21 AM
Subject: Re: [9fans] ATI video install problems


> The Savage4-based cards are reasonably well supported.
> I use Diamond Stealth III S540s in my desktop systems.
> It's a two-year-old card now, but still younger than the
> Xpert98.  If you find another card with a Savage4 chip in it,
> it is probably easy to add; the same is not necessarily true
> of the Mach64 chip, which requires a lot more busy work
> programming memory timings and such.
>
> Russ
>

Re: [9fans] ATI video install problems

[John E. Barham]

> Hope you don't mind my emailing you, but it seems my original post and at
> least one reply got lost en route to news:comp.lang.python.  Am I better
off
> using the mailing list?

Oops.  Seems I've answered my own question.

> Can I assume from the below that my ATI Rage 128 Pro card is not
supported?

Although I'm still waiting on this...

[9fans] ATI video install problems

[John E. Barham]

Hi all,

I'm trying to install Plan9 on my Dell 4100 desktop (800 Mhz PIII, 128 MB
RAM, Linksys EtherFast 10/100 NIC).  However, the installer complains about
my video card (16MB ATI Rage 128 Pro) not being found in some database.  The
plan.ini and vgainfo.txt files are attached.  If the card is not in fact
supported, I'm willing by buy one (I've already bought the NIC for the
occasion) and would appreciate inexpensive recommendations.  Thanks in
advance for any advice on this problem.

FWIW, if/when I get Plan9 installed, I'm especially interested in playing
around with Python and writing Plan9 extensions for Python.  What's the
latest status on Python & Plan9?  I might be able to help w/ the port having
used Python a fair bit and being somewhat familiar w/ the internals...

Cheers,

    John Barham

P.S.  I also have an HP Pavilion N5415 laptop.  Just of out of curiosity, is
anyone running Plan9 on that?


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Re: [9fans] ATI video install problems

[Pat Hacker]

John
see http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/pchardware.html
The Xpert 98 is a good inexpensive card.

Good luck. The group here is very helpful so feel free to keep asking 
questions.
Pat

On Wednesday, March 13, 2002, at 02:05 AM, John E. Barham wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to install Plan9 on my Dell 4100 desktop (800 Mhz PIII, 128 
> MB
> RAM, Linksys EtherFast 10/100 NIC).  However, the installer complains 
> about
> my video card (16MB ATI Rage 128 Pro) not being found in some 
> database.  The
> plan.ini and vgainfo.txt files are attached.  If the card is not in fact
> supported, I'm willing by buy one (I've already bought the NIC for the
> occasion) and would appreciate inexpensive recommendations.  Thanks in
> advance for any advice on this problem.
>
> FWIW, if/when I get Plan9 installed, I'm especially interested in 
> playing
> around with Python and writing Plan9 extensions for Python.  What's the
> latest status on Python & Plan9?  I might be able to help w/ the port 
> having
> used Python a fair bit and being somewhat familiar w/ the internals...
>
> Cheers,
>
>     John Barham
>
> P.S.  I also have an HP Pavilion N5415 laptop.  Just of out of 
> curiosity, is
> anyone running Plan9 on that?
>
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Re: [9fans] ATI video install problems

[Douglas A. Gwyn]

Pat Hacker wrote:
> The Xpert 98 is a good inexpensive card.

Unfortunately, there are at least two incompatible variants;
when I last tried them, some worked with the Plan 9 ATI driver
and some didn't (even after making the obvious vgadb changes).