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From: "P9 Fan (Dylan Harris)" <9fans@xenakis.demon.co.uk>
To: "Plan 9 Mailing List (E-mail)" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] ATI 64 Installation problem
Date: Sat,  5 May 2001 08:31:27 +0100
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Hi,

I'm new to Plan 9, so no doubt am making some extremely silly mistake
which is preventing me from getting going. I'm trying to install it on a
machine with a 1995 ATI Mach 64 but the installation process is failing
by what I can only describe as an attack of alien writing, or at least
my perceptions of how 1970s Hollywood would represent alien writing. My
understanding, from the documentation, is that the ATI Mach 64 should
work.

The installation process seems to run OK until the launch of the window
manager - not very far, in other words. The driver seem to recognise the
card, but it is clearly incorrect, because I get some very pretty lines
of dots and dashes and moving bits, but no romaji.

I've tried removing some - or even most - of the entries for ATI Mach 64
on the boot disk in VGADB, to no avail. I've tried lying about my
monitor - claiming it is a vga 640x480x8, and others - in the .INI file,
again to no avail (and, anyway, I don't think its a monitor problem).

Does anyone know of any other settings I can try? Any suggestions? Or do
I need to bite the wallet and buy a new card (eeek).

Dylan Harris

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