From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Using nvidia TNT video card on installed system In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:55:52 GMT." From: Quinn Dunkan Message-Id: <20010716193818.304AF90151@yak.ugcs.caltech.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 12:38:13 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: cf323092-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > I've had good luck getting plan9 installed using the binary install image > from http://members.optusnet.com.au/~nwaples/binaries/, but after install my > system knows nothing of the nividia vga driver. What do I need to do to the > installed system to have it support the nvidia card. The current kernel comes with an nvidia driver, but it's not compiled in by default. Edit /sys/src/9/pc/pcdisk and make sure there's a 'vganvidia.c +cur' line with all the other video drivers, then change CONF=pcdisk in the mkfile and mk. Then "cp 9pcdisk /n/9fat" and point plan9.ini at it. aux/vga also has to know about the card, but I think the current version does by default. Make sure /sys/src/cmd/aux/vga/whatever.c mentions nvidia in its big video card dispatch table. 9fans archives have more detailed instructions, I think. > installed system to have it support the nvidia card. On a related note, how > do I access the mounted floppy? I've read the man page stating that 'a:' > mounts the floppy, but writing to '/n/a:/' gives me a 'hang up' error :\ You mount a floppy by making sure dossrv is running and typing mount -c /srv/dos /n/a: /dev/fd0disk This is what the a: script does. If dossrv hangs up on you, it probably doesn't like the filesystem or the disk (tripping over a bad sector seems to confuse dossrv enough to hang up that channel), or maybe even the drive. dossrv and the floppy disk driver can be sensitive.