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From: "Richard Hunt" <0102806H@student.gla.ac.uk>
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Subject: [9fans] (Newbie) Problems with Riva TNT
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 15:31:51 +0000
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When I start up into plan 9 (which I installed from the nightly build at ur=
eg.html) I get this error message:
aux/vga: nvidia: segattach nvidiammio, size 16777216: bad arg in system cal=
l

Looking at the google groups archives someone else had this problem a coupl=
e of months ago, and recompiling the kernel solved the problem. Well ( :)=
 ), I tried recompiling the kernel, but to be honest I didn't have a clue=
 what I was doing. Here are the steps I tried:

1. root is from local. Login as user sys.

2. cd /sys/src. mk kernels.
 From the error messages I got from this, I edited the mkfiles in 9, boot, =
and fs so that it would only try to build for pc.=20
Then I did mk kernels again.

3. Rebooted the computer. Got the old error message again.

 From this I am guessing that the above steps didn't install a new kernel. W=
hat should I have done?

The bootup cd does graphics fine with the default options (640x480x8, xga),=
 so I know it works sometimes. Looking in /386 some files are dated today=
, but some are dated some time in late september.

I altered vganvidia.c to do really silly things, to see if I was actually u=
sing my new version, but it doesn't seem to be.

I'll be grateful for any advice,

Richard Hunt, 0102806h@student.gla.ac.uk