From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] keyboard problems after aux/vga
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:51:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13426df10611191751s22d0f2c3xfbfca49ecdc70d6e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a5bd31058f3dad5d77824c21c7438f28@akira.nop.cx>
On 11/19/06, Tim Wiess <tim@nop.cx> wrote:
> > vesa is tough. the first thing i would check is if X11 runs in vesa mode
> > under linux on this machine.
> >
> > if vesa memory isn't where the driver expects or is a different size, you are
> > likely to overwrite something important. are you trying the lowest vesa resolution?
>
> i've tried a variety of resolutions with the same results.
> i'll try X/vesa and see what happens....
One thing that is very useful when debugging problems with vga etc. is
to have a serial console. Any chance you can set this up?
we hit this all the time with linuxbios; at some point, serial console
will save your life.
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-20 1:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-19 17:06 Tim Wiess
2006-11-19 17:45 ` erik quanstrom
2006-11-19 19:05 ` Tim Wiess
2006-11-20 1:51 ` ron minnich [this message]
2006-11-20 3:10 ` Tim Wiess
2006-11-20 3:21 ` erik quanstrom
2006-11-20 3:57 ` lucio
2006-11-27 4:09 ` Tim Wiess
2006-11-20 4:04 ` Tim Wiess
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