Re: [9fans] nvidia VGA cards supported

Re: [9fans] nvidia VGA cards supported

[nigel]

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I didn't respond because I couldn't give a "definite answer".
There are no definite answers with vgas.

Oh alright I'll try.

A good range of Nvidia cards right up to Geforce 4s may work,
or can be made to work by altering vgadb, or tweaking code.

You will need to check the archives, as there are several
semi-independent efforts at improving support.

The fundamental problems are

1. acceleration may or may not work
2. depths > 8 may not work
3. snow may appear on the screen
4. laptop screens using Geforce Gos won't work

This is all down to a partial but incomplete port of the Xfree86 4
driver. It is believed that a complete port will make the vast majority
of cards work. In particular, there is some "memory access
optimisation" code in there which is missing from the Plan 9 version,
and could easily account for most of these problems (except 4).

As I say, check the archives. There has been a lot of traffic on the
subject.

As a summary, you have a good chance of getting most cards to work
acceptably in 8 bit depth, except laptops.

There you are; definitive, if not really definite.

Nigel


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It depends on your boot floppy's file, called vgadb.

The part of nvidia card of mine is as follows:

ctlr
	0xC00A2="NVIDIA TNT2 Model 64 BIOS V2.05.13 "	# NVIDIA TNT Model 64
	0xC0108="AOpen MX200 VGA BIOS Version 1.00-143N"	# AOpen MX200 Geforce2
	0xC0108="NVIDIA GeForce2 MX-200 VGA BIOS"	# Prographics GeForce2 MX-200
	0xC00CB="ASUS AGP-V7100 VGA BIOS Version 3.11.00.04" # ASUS GeForce2MX
	0xC0074="NV"			# GeForce 3
	link=vga
	ctlr=nvidia linear=1
	hwgc=nvidiahwgc


You can edit that file before booting the system by some editer on Unix or
windows.

Kenji  --because none responds this  :-)


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From: Anastasopoulos S <anastas@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] nvidia VGA cards supported
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 10:38:54 +0300 (EET DST)
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Hi

I am upgrading my PC and since i don't want to 'miss' plan9, exactly which
nvidia cards are supported?

The hardware requirements page says there is good support only for savage4
an riva TNT2. Also in the same page there is a note that GeForce in not
supported but in this list some report that it worked fine on GeForce2 MX.

Can someone give a definite answer?

Thanks
Spyros

Re: [9fans] nvidia VGA cards supported

[andrey mirtchovski]

sorry if anyone has answered this already:

i've succesfully used nvidia cards of the following types:

tnt2
geforce 2 (MX and other types)
geforce3

patches for geforce4 could be found on:

http://www.acl.lanl.gov/plan9/geforce4/

but have been tested only on geforce4 ti 4600..

all of those with optimization and support for up to 32 bpps

On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Anastasopoulos S wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> I am upgrading my PC and since i don't want to 'miss' plan9, exactly which
> nvidia cards are supported?
>
> The hardware requirements page says there is good support only for savage4
> an riva TNT2. Also in the same page there is a note that GeForce in not
> supported but in this list some report that it worked fine on GeForce2 MX.
>
> Can someone give a definite answer?
>
> Thanks
> Spyros
>
>
>

Re: [9fans] nvidia VGA cards supported

[Douglas A. Gwyn]

Anastasopoulos S wrote:
> I am upgrading my PC and since i don't want to 'miss' plan9,
> exactly which nvidia cards are supported?

GeForce 2 MX works well, also under Windows, and these days the
cards are very affordable since whoever still has them in stock
is desperate to unload them.
The one drawback I found was that native Solaris 8 (x86)
doesn't have NVIDIA support (except for one antique model),
but that can be remedied with an available patch that integrates
the XFree86 driver support into the Solaris environment.
(See, it's not just Plan 9 that has problems supporting the
variety of PC hardware.)

Re: [9fans] nvidia VGA cards supported

[okamoto]

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Please forget my previous post.
It was for Release 3.  :-)

I installed Release 4 just before, and saw a quite different format for
nvidia chip.   Sorry about that.

Anyway, very nice installation procedure of the new system.
I installed it to a Pen 133MHz and 6.05GB local disk.  Good guidance
to partioning disks etc.

Thanks to all Plan 9 team.
Who dit it?

Kenji


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It depends on your boot floppy's file, called vgadb.

The part of nvidia card of mine is as follows:

ctlr
	0xC00A2="NVIDIA TNT2 Model 64 BIOS V2.05.13 "	# NVIDIA TNT Model 64
	0xC0108="AOpen MX200 VGA BIOS Version 1.00-143N"	# AOpen MX200 Geforce2
	0xC0108="NVIDIA GeForce2 MX-200 VGA BIOS"	# Prographics GeForce2 MX-200
	0xC00CB="ASUS AGP-V7100 VGA BIOS Version 3.11.00.04" # ASUS GeForce2MX
	0xC0074="NV"			# GeForce 3
	link=vga
	ctlr=nvidia linear=1
	hwgc=nvidiahwgc


You can edit that file before booting the system by some editer on Unix or
windows.

Kenji  --because none responds this  :-)


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Hi

I am upgrading my PC and since i don't want to 'miss' plan9, exactly which
nvidia cards are supported?

The hardware requirements page says there is good support only for savage4
an riva TNT2. Also in the same page there is a note that GeForce in not
supported but in this list some report that it worked fine on GeForce2 MX.

Can someone give a definite answer?

Thanks
Spyros



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Re: [9fans] nvidia VGA cards supported

[matt]

> Kenji  --because none responds this  :-)

I think perhaps everyone on this side of the world is asleep.

>Subject: [9fans] nvidia VGA cards supported

From: "Anastasopoulos S" <anastas@ceid.upatras.gr>
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 8:38 AM

From: <okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp>
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Re: [9fans] nvidia VGA cards supported

[okamoto]

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It depends on your boot floppy's file, called vgadb.

The part of nvidia card of mine is as follows:

ctlr
	0xC00A2="NVIDIA TNT2 Model 64 BIOS V2.05.13 "	# NVIDIA TNT Model 64
	0xC0108="AOpen MX200 VGA BIOS Version 1.00-143N"	# AOpen MX200 Geforce2
	0xC0108="NVIDIA GeForce2 MX-200 VGA BIOS"	# Prographics GeForce2 MX-200
	0xC00CB="ASUS AGP-V7100 VGA BIOS Version 3.11.00.04" # ASUS GeForce2MX
	0xC0074="NV"			# GeForce 3
	link=vga
	ctlr=nvidia linear=1
	hwgc=nvidiahwgc


You can edit that file before booting the system by some editer on Unix or
windows.

Kenji  --because none responds this  :-)


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From: Anastasopoulos S <anastas@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] nvidia VGA cards supported
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 10:38:54 +0300 (EET DST)
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0206281034510.17288-100000@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr>


Hi

I am upgrading my PC and since i don't want to 'miss' plan9, exactly which
nvidia cards are supported?

The hardware requirements page says there is good support only for savage4
an riva TNT2. Also in the same page there is a note that GeForce in not
supported but in this list some report that it worked fine on GeForce2 MX.

Can someone give a definite answer?

Thanks
Spyros

[9fans] nvidia VGA cards supported

[Anastasopoulos S]

Hi

I am upgrading my PC and since i don't want to 'miss' plan9, exactly which
nvidia cards are supported?

The hardware requirements page says there is good support only for savage4
an riva TNT2. Also in the same page there is a note that GeForce in not
supported but in this list some report that it worked fine on GeForce2 MX.

Can someone give a definite answer?

Thanks
Spyros