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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 21:18:45 +0100
From: "R. J. Bradley" <druid@stonecircle.freeserve.co.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Installing without graphics ?
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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