> It will help a lot if you have graphics working on this system in
> some other operating system that lets you poke at the VGA card,
> to read out a working register dump.  Such systems include Windows 9x,
> Linux, and FreeBSD but not Windows NT or 2000.

Are there ready-made tools which will give you a register dump or do
you have to write something specific for each card?  I have access to
a machine with a #9 Imagine 2 which I would quite like to use as a
plan 9 terminal.  The t2r4 driver looks like it should work with a
bit of tweaking.

-- Richard