From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] vga prob after install From: andrey mirtchovski MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-hciextgvpzdnvzamxgsitltcre" Message-Id: <20020225144618.8D32C19A56@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:48:39 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 55725344-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-hciextgvpzdnvzamxgsitltcre Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit the installation kernel knows of nvidia, however the p9 distribution you installed does not.. the message 'unknown controller' is indicative of aux/vga (the new one you installed) not having nvidia support.. download the vganvidia.c, nvidia.c and something.h files and do the following: just add the nvidia.c and registers.h (forgot the exact name) to /sys/src/cmd/aux/vga/, edit the mkfile to get nvidia.c to compile, edit data.c to add nvidia and nvidiahwgc controllers (the Ctlr* ctlrs[] at the beginning) and you're almost set.. type 'mk install' in the same directory (disk/kfscmd allow may be required) and you'll have an aux/vga that speaks nvidia.. restart and mail me privately if it's still not working (you may have to add support in the kernel too -- the vganvidia.c file is for that)... andrey --upas-hciextgvpzdnvzamxgsitltcre Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from acl.lanl.gov ([128.165.147.1]) by acl.lanl.gov; Mon Feb 25 03:28:27 MST 2002 Received: (qmail 2110332 invoked by uid 18927); 25 Feb 2002 03:28:27 -0700 Delivered-To: andrey@acl.lanl.gov Received: (qmail 2096705 invoked from network); 25 Feb 2002 03:27:30 -0700 Received: from mailrelay1.lanl.gov (128.165.4.101) by acl.lanl.gov with SMTP; 25 Feb 2002 03:27:30 -0700 Received: from mailproxy1.lanl.gov (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay1.lanl.gov (8.11.6/8.11.6/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id g1PARUr07996; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 03:27:30 -0700 Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.4.6]) by mailproxy1.lanl.gov (8.11.6/8.11.6/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id g1PAT6203976; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 03:29:07 -0700 Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.6.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id AD12919995; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 05:27:26 -0500 (EST) Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: from mercury.bath.ac.uk (mercury.bath.ac.uk [138.38.32.81]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 9C374199F2 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 05:26:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from news by mercury.bath.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 16fI7r-0006Sl-00 for 9fans@cse.psu.edu; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:12:55 +0000 Received: from GATEWAY by bath.ac.uk with netnews for 9fans@cse.psu.edu (9fans@cse.psu.edu) To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Serge Gagnon Message-ID: Organization: Bell Sympatico Subject: [9fans] vga prob after install Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Help: List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:10:40 GMT I have a video card using a nvidia chipset. After added a line into the vgadb, rio start in video and the installation is ok in 1024x768x8...good. But, when I reboot , I got a message : vgactl type unknow. "Bizarre". Nvidia is a know chip for the installation, but not for the plan9 system itself... I tried something : I copy the /aux/vga when I boot from the install floppy and copy it when I boot from the plan9 system and got a new message : vgactlw type error in system call It`s sure that I missed something somewhere...but I dont know what.. Pc : x86 video : Asus v3800M Thanks -- Serge Gagnon --upas-hciextgvpzdnvzamxgsitltcre--