[9fans] TNT ASUS V3400 works; pcicfginit hangs regularly

[9fans] TNT ASUS V3400 works; pcicfginit hangs regularly

[Axel Belinfante]

I installed plan9 on a mchine with
  ASUS P2B-F motherboard
  ASUS V3400TNT video card.
I installed the March 27 version, without the portclock.c fix.

vgadb string:
	0xC00A3="AGP-V3400TNT"

It works, but sometimes (most of the time when I boot as glenda)
aux/vga hangs in pcicfginit.
I can work around by booting as 'none' and running aux/vga by hand,
usally first with 'aux/vga -piV' and then 'aux/vga -piVl' and then
starting rio by hand.

Could the portclock.c fix solve the problem?
I should have tried before posting, but did not yet have time
(didn't think of it at the right time - I spend some time tracing
 the problem: it hangs in the loop at the end of pcicfginit.)

Axel.

Re: [9fans] TNT ASUS V3400 works; pcicfginit hangs regularly

[Axel Belinfante]

> > >>Could the portclock.c fix solve the problem?
> >
> > i think it's best regarded as essential.
>
> Thanks for the reply. I'll try it, and will report the result.

I have tried it and the problem seems to have gone away. Thanks again!

Axel.

Re: [9fans] TNT ASUS V3400 works; pcicfginit hangs regularly

[Dan Cross]

> i think it's best regarded as essential.  my home systems ran happily for a
> few days without it and my terminal at work was also fine, but it hung
> immediately for someone else after booting, and the ipaq was also hopeless
> without it, hardly ever getting started.

Oh my, have I been living under a rock for a while?  :-)  I haven't
heard about this portclock.c bug/fix.  Do you have a pointer to further
information?  Thanks!

	- Dan C.

Re: [9fans] TNT ASUS V3400 works; pcicfginit hangs regularly

[Axel Belinfante]

> >>Could the portclock.c fix solve the problem?
>
> i think it's best regarded as essential.  my home systems ran happily for a
> few days without it and my terminal at work was also fine, but it hung
> immediately for someone else after booting, and the ipaq was also hopeless
> without it, hardly ever getting started.

Thanks for the reply. I'll try it, and will report the result.

Axel.

Re: [9fans] TNT ASUS V3400 works; pcicfginit hangs regularly

[forsyth]

>>Could the portclock.c fix solve the problem?

i think it's best regarded as essential.  my home systems ran happily for a few
days without it and my terminal at work was also fine, but it hung immediately
for someone else after booting, and the ipaq was also hopeless without it,
hardly ever getting started.