Re: [9fans] S3 graphics card prob

["Conor Williams" <connorwilliamsie@aol.com>]

tried that but the vga part hangs my 486 - put the s3 card
into a pentium and it worked - thats fine for now!
Im now have a problem running the cpu -h command
on my text based diskless terminal. I'm getting the error:
cat: cant open /mnt/term/env/wsys: does not exist.
this gets fixed when 8 1/2 starts - is there a way around
this so I can run cpu -h without 8 1/2
tx
will551

> 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
> >
>
>