Re: [9fans] Nvidia Geforce card

Re: [9fans] Nvidia Geforce card

[nigel]

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The Labs web pages indicate a basic hardware compatibility.
If you check the archives, then more information is available.
In the most recent update, Voodoo was added. It was developed
on a 3000, but should work with others.

Plan 9 so far has not made use of 3D, so good 2D performance
is all that matters. This, plus the relative difficulty of getting
specifications for the market leading 3D cards makes keeping
up with current hardware tricky.

Currently the big holes are

ATi >= 128 bits: documentation is easy to get, but no-one
	with the skills/hardware/motivation has stood up to
	be counted yet

Nvidia: known to be hard to get documentation

Matrox G series: reasonable documentation can be got.
	I have got a G400 working at 8 bits depth, but time
	is short

As for on-board, if you mean SIS, then no.

Sparcstation 5. Not immediately; the latest release is only tested
on x86. I have one lying in the corner of the room as well.

I would download the 3rd edition manuals from the website and
read them. There are a _lot_ of changes. Put it this way, I don't
read the old manuals, pretty though they are.

Nigel


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From: James <thenamek@home.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Nvidia Geforce card
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 09:27:52 GMT
Message-ID: <cEEN5.115588$ib7.15735588@news1.rdc1.nj.home.com>

Whats a good card then? Voodoo?? or will onboard (motherboard) video work?
Or is there away to install it in console mode only. I also got my hands on
Plan 9 manual today (old one) from work, pretty wild. :-)
I work at lucent, I just got my hands on a Sparcstation 5. Plan 9 should
work on that with no problems?
<nigel@9fs.org> wrote in message
news:E13sj0V-000JY0-0X@anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net...
> Sorry, no Nvidia Geforce (or any other Nvidia) support.
>
>

Re: [9fans] Nvidia Geforce card

[Andrew Pochinsky]

   As for on-board, if you mean SIS, then no.

Neither Intel's 810/815 chipset graphics.

--andrew

Re: [9fans] Nvidia Geforce card

[James]

Whats a good card then? Voodoo?? or will onboard (motherboard) video work?
Or is there away to install it in console mode only. I also got my hands on
Plan 9 manual today (old one) from work, pretty wild. :-)
I work at lucent, I just got my hands on a Sparcstation 5. Plan 9 should
work on that with no problems?
<nigel@9fs.org> wrote in message
news:E13sj0V-000JY0-0X@anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net...
> Sorry, no Nvidia Geforce (or any other Nvidia) support.
>
>

Re: [9fans] Nvidia Geforce card

[nigel]

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Sorry, no Nvidia Geforce (or any other Nvidia) support.


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From: James <thenamek@home.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Nvidia Geforce card
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 09:43:49 GMT
Message-ID: <mGYM5.109222$ib7.15047570@news1.rdc1.nj.home.com>

Is there support for the NVIDIA Geforce card? If not is there anyway I could
just install console mode only?
James

[9fans] Nvidia Geforce card

[James]

Is there support for the NVIDIA Geforce card? If not is there anyway I could
just install console mode only?
James