From: "Conor Williams" <connorwilliamsie@aol.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] S3 graphics card prob
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:22:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <09a001c2cb8f$b215cc10$4d4a800a@will551> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8466144f43ada1036c627b7c635dae76@plan9.bell-labs.com>
tx Russ will try that 2nite
I had to modify the mkfile for the pcdisk cause
I ran out of swap space when compiling...
so what I _should_ have said is that I took out
all graphics support except the s3 line...
and i have that kernel on a floppy which links into
my servers...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: [9fans] S3 graphics card prob
> Try running vga by hand:
>
> aux/vga -m $monitor -l $vgasize
> aux/mouse $mouseport
>
> and see if that gets you into graphics mode.
> If so, you can dig through termrc to see
> why it's not starting.
>
> I'm confused about what you did. You said you
> built a pcdisk kernel, but the pcdisk kernels
> already have s3 support by default. If you
> actually built a cpu server kernel, then you
> need to copy the vga initialization code from
> /rc/bin/termrc into /rc/bin/cpurc, since cpu servers
> boot using the latter script.
>
> Russ
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-03 14:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-03 5:48 [9fans] (None) Newsletter
2003-02-03 13:46 ` [9fans] S3 graphics card prob Conor Williams
2003-02-03 14:02 ` Russ Cox
2003-02-03 14:22 ` Conor Williams [this message]
2003-02-04 9:06 ` Conor Williams
2003-02-10 9:31 ` Conor Williams
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