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From: "R. J. Bradley" <druid@stonecircle.freeserve.co.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Installing without graphics ?
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 21:18:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000614211845.A1013@DruidPC.DruidNet.org> (raw)


Hi

After finaly managing to find a floppy disk without a bad sector
(had to buy some new disks) I have booted Plan 9 and as I expected
my graphics card (Trident TGUI96xx) isnt supported.

Any help with the following would be appreciated.

1) Is there any way to install the system without vga and rio up
and running. I need an installed system if I am going to be able
to play with writing a driver for my card.

2) Where would be the best place to look for starting to write a
graphics driver. How much work is done by the card specific code ?

Thanks for any help.

Robin




             reply	other threads:[~2000-06-14 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-06-14 20:18 R. J. Bradley [this message]
2000-06-14 20:36 Russ Cox
2000-06-24 19:42 ` R. J. Bradley
2000-06-26  4:44   ` Richard
2000-06-26 14:46   ` Xavier Bertou
2000-06-26 18:03   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2000-06-26 19:41     ` R. J. Bradley
2000-06-25  2:36 Russ Cox

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