[9fans] Getting Started: Matrox Video, SSH, SPARC Port?

[Stephen Wynne <stevemw@mindspring.com>]

Hi,

Thanks to everyone involved in making the recent release a reality!
After learning about SPIN and Plan9 at the University of Oregon from
Mike Haertel in 1991 (who I recall had recently interned at the Labs),
I've been waiting for almost a decade.

Now for my first problem report: I'm trying to get Plan9 v3 up and
running on the Internet on an Intel Pentium 233 MMX with 128 MB of RAM
and IDE. I've got two "minor" issues.

1. My video card's cursor runs downward like the space ship in
   "Astroids" at full speed, apparently wrapping. It's a Matrox
   Millennium with 4MB. (Please see the vgainfo.txt attached below.)
   My serial mouse is working just fine, albeit without much visual
   feedback about where it is on the vertical axis.

2. aux/sshserve just prints its name ("SSH 1.5 PLAN9" I think) and
   quits. Since I don't have passwords on accounts or other things
   fully set up as described in the "Getting Started" document, I can
   understand why this might fail. But I just wanted to do the
   "minimum" required just to experiment before doing a full reinstall.
   (I did follow the instructions for setting up keyfiles in
   /sys/lib/ssh, but I doubt they're correct.)

In any case, I can tell it's time to revisit the documentation.

Finally, I had been amassing a small squadron of old SPARC systems (a
couple of IPCs, an SS2, and an SS1) with plans to set up a cozy little
"9net" in the machine room. I should have been more attentive, because
I see now that SPARC isn't yet supported with a v3 kernel. Are there
plans? Can I help test/debug?

Thank you,

Stephen Wynne
Research Support Facilities
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University

----------------- plan9.ini -----------------
*nomp=1
bootfile=fd0!9pcflop.gz
distname=plan9
scsi0=type=ncr53c8xx
# Note: this is a bit different now, and I have it working (DHCP is doing OK!)
ether0=type=3C589 media=10BaseT
monitor=multisync75
vgasize=1024x768x8
mouseport=1
audio0=type=sb16
installurl=http://204.178.31.2/magic/9down/compressed/960498113.2hf2wt96b297zmw2h9juq7t9ukygbccd

----------------- vgainfo.txt -----------------
main->snarf
vga->snarf
mga2164w->snarf
x[0]=1
x[1]=2
x[2]=255
x[3]=255
probe found 4 megabytes
vga->dump
vga misc             67
vga feature          00
vga sequencer        03 00 03 00 02
vga crt              60 4F 50 83 55 81 BF 1F - 00 4F 0E 0F 00 00 07 80
                     9C 8E 8F 28 1F 96 B9 A3 - FF
vga graphics         00 00 00 00 00 10 0E 00 - FF
vga attribute        00 01 02 03 04 05 14 07 - 38 39 3A 3B 3C 3D 3E 3F
                     0C 00 0F 08 00
vga vmz               4194304
vga apz                     0
vga linear                  1
vga->attr: 0xC002D=MATROX/MILLENNIUM  VGA/VBE BIOS (V2.5 )
mga2164w->dump
mga2164w Devctrl    2800083
mga2164w Option     5F2C0100
mga2164w Crtcext     00 00 00 00 00 00
mga2164w TVP         00 40 40 40 40 40 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06
                     06 06 06 06 06 06 06 06 - 80 98 00 00 00 00 00 00
                     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 14 FF 77 77 7F
                     FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF - 00 18 00 FF 00 00 00 26
mga2164w PCLK        EC 2B 31
mga2164w MCLK        EC 2B B1
mga2164w LCLK        BF 3F 32
mga2164whwgc->dump
mga2164whwgc Devctrl2800083
mga2164whwgc Option 5F2C0100
mga2164whwgc Crtcext 00 00 00 00 00 00
mga2164whwgc TVP     00 40 40 40 40 40 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06
                     06 06 06 06 06 06 06 06 - 80 98 00 00 00 00 00 00
                     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 14 FF 77 77 7F
                     FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF - 00 18 00 FF 00 00 00 26
mga2164whwgc PCLK    EC 2B 31
mga2164whwgc MCLK    EC 2B B1
mga2164whwgc LCLK    BF 3F 32

vmf 0 vmdf 75000000 vf1 0 vbw 75000000
mga2164w->options
vga->init
mga2164w->init
pixbuswidth=64
dbdumpmode
type=multisync75, size=1024x768x8
frequency=75000000
x=1024 (0x400), y=768 (0x300), z=8 (0x8)
ht=1328 (0x530), shb=1096 (0x448), ehb=1232 (0x4D0)
shs=1072 (0x430), ehs=1232 (0x4D0)
vt=806 (0x326), vrs=771 (0x303), vre=777 (0x309)
hsync=45, vsync=45, interlace=0
vga->dump
vga flag             Fdump|Finit|Fsnarf
vga misc             EB
vga feature          00
vga sequencer        03 01 0F 00 0A
vga crt              A1 7F 7F 85 86 9A324 FD - 00 60 00 00 00 00 00 00
                    303 292FF 40 00303304 E3 -7FF
vga graphics         00 00 00 00 00 50 05 0F - FF
vga attribute        00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 - 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F
                     41 FF 0F 00 00
vga clock[0] f       75000000
vga clock[0] d i m          0        0       -       48
vga clock[0] n p q r       52        1       -        0        0
vga clock[1] f       74895095
vga clock[1] d i m          0        0       -       61
vga clock[1] n p q r       33        3       -        0        0
vga vmz               4194304
vga apz                     0
vga linear                  1
vga->attr: 0xC002D=MATROX/MILLENNIUM  VGA/VBE BIOS (V2.5 )
mga2164w->dump
mga2164w flag        Ulinear|Fdump|Finit|Foptions|Fsnarf
mga2164w Devctrl    2800083
mga2164w Option     5F2C1100
mga2164w Crtcext     00 00 00 80 00 00
mga2164w TVP         00 40 40 40 40 40 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06
                     06 06 06 06 06 06 06 06 - 80 4C 25 00 00 03 04 00
                     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 1E FF 77 77 7F
                     FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF - 00 38 00 FF 00 00 00 26
mga2164w PCLK        F4 30 B1
mga2164w MCLK        EC 2B B1
mga2164w LCLK        E1 3D F3
mga2164whwgc->dump
mga2164whwgc flag    Fdump
mga2164whwgc Devctrl2800083
mga2164whwgc Option 5F2C1100
mga2164whwgc Crtcext 00 00 00 80 00 00
mga2164whwgc TVP     00 40 40 40 40 40 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06
                     06 06 06 06 06 06 06 06 - 80 4C 25 00 00 03 04 00
                     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 1E FF 77 77 7F
                     FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF - 00 38 00 FF 00 00 00 26
mga2164whwgc PCLK    F4 30 B1
mga2164whwgc MCLK    EC 2B B1
mga2164whwgc LCLK    E1 3D F3

main->exits