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From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Installing Plan9 on a Toshiba Sattellite 4015CDS Laptop
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:17:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010322181737.C089E19A11@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)

are you sure it's a c&t 6900, not a c&t 69000?
the hiqvideo driver handles the 69000, but has only been
tried with a real monitor, not an lcd.

--jim

On Thu Mar 22 12:25:27 EST 2001, Mark_Otto@FWS.Gov wrote:
> Nobody has responded to my message.  I think a video driver has to be written
> for that chip.  I haven't looked into that and won't be able to for a while. 
> Yes.  I think the worst you can do by trying different plan9.ini options is blow
> out the video.  
> 
> Good luck getting it up.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu wrote:
> > 
> > From: Michael Collins <mhtexcollins@austin.rr.com>@cse.psu.edu on
> >       03/19/2001 09:43 AM GMT
> > 
> > Please respond to 9fans@cse.psu.edu
> > 
> > To:   9fans@cse.psu.edu
> > cc:
> > Subject:  Re: [9fans] Installing Plan9 on a Toshiba Sattellite 4015CDS
> >       Laptop
> > 
> > I would like to get my ct6900 up.  It has pretty much the same specs. I
> > am very new at p9 though.  I will start trying things.  Thanks for the
> > impetus.  All I can do is blow the video out, right?
> > 
> > Mark C. Otto wrote:
> > 
> > > I am trying to install plan9 on a Toshiba Sattellite 4015CDS.  I had
> > problems
> > > with aux/vga and was left in rc.  I suspect that the problem is in with
> > the
> > > CT65555 video chip.  I tried adding
> > >
> > 
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             reply	other threads:[~2001-03-22 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-22 18:17 jmk [this message]
2001-03-26  8:45 ` Michael Collins
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-12-20  8:19 [9fans] Communication with a Network Printer nigel
2001-01-29 16:59 ` [9fans] Installing Plan9 on a Toshiba Sattellite 4015CDS Laptop Mark C. Otto
2001-03-19  9:43   ` Michael Collins
2001-03-22 17:23     ` Mark C. Otto

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