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* [9fans] T23 vga
@ 2003-10-28 21:10 John Stalker
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From: John Stalker @ 2003-10-28 21:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

Thanks, monitor=t23 and vgasize=1024x768x16 works fine.
--
John Stalker
Department of Mathematics
Princeton University
(609)258-6469


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* Re: [9fans] T23 vga
  2003-10-30 12:48 ` David Presotto
@ 2003-10-30 16:37   ` John Stalker
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From: John Stalker @ 2003-10-30 16:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans


> what is the actual size of your screen in pixels?  Mine is really 1024x768x8.
  Sounds like
> yours might be a 1440 width screen.

The specs from the reseller were 1280x1024, but they may not really know.
I haven't tried anything above 1024x768 on any operating system, though.
Amusingly Windows2000--since I was forced to pay for it I thought I might
as well keep it--is currently only working at 800x600x8.  XFree86 does
1024x768x24 without complaints, since I edited the bizarre XF86Config
that xf86cfg gave me.
--
John Stalker
Department of Mathematics
Princeton University
(609)258-6469


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* Re: [9fans] T23 vga
@ 2003-10-30 13:03 David Presotto
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From: David Presotto @ 2003-10-30 13:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans, stalker

By the way, I use monitor=t23 rather than monitor=xga.


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* Re: [9fans] T23 vga
  2003-10-28 18:34 John Stalker
  2003-10-28 17:27 ` Russ Cox
  2003-10-28 18:39 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
@ 2003-10-30 12:48 ` David Presotto
  2003-10-30 16:37   ` John Stalker
  2 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: David Presotto @ 2003-10-30 12:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

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what is the actual size of your screen in pixels?  Mine is really 1024x768x8.  Sounds like
yours might be a 1440 width screen.

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From: John Stalker <stalker@Math.Princeton.EDU>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] T23 vga
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 13:34:00 -0500
Message-ID: <200310281834.h9SIY0nM022392@math.Princeton.EDU>

My new T23 arrived.  I installed plan9 without problems and
then pulled the latest sources.  Now I am trying to get a
decent screen resolution.  I put a menu in plan9.ini
to allow me to choose from

	1) vgasize=640x480x8:  This works, of course, but is
	annoying.

	2) vgasize=800x600x8:  This has a weird speckled
	appearance, but it is tolerable for about 5 minutes.

	3) vgasize=1024x768x8:  This causes the screen to
	behave very strangely.  Nothing is legible.

all of these are with monitor=xga.  I assume the rest of
plan9.ini is not relevant.  I can post the rest if anyone
cares.  /lib/vgadb is whatever was on sources.  I didn't
change anything.  Does anyone with a T23 have any suggestions?
Thanks,
				John
--
John Stalker
Department of Mathematics
Princeton University
(609)258-6469

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* Re: [9fans] T23 vga
  2003-10-28 18:34 John Stalker
  2003-10-28 17:27 ` Russ Cox
@ 2003-10-28 18:39 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
  2003-10-30 12:48 ` David Presotto
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Fco.J.Ballesteros @ 2003-10-28 18:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

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AFAIK, you have a t23 monitor declared in the db. You
can use that instead of xga.
vgasize of 1024x768x8 should work, perhaps bigger
if your laptop supports that.

hth

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From: John Stalker <stalker@Math.Princeton.EDU>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] T23 vga
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 13:34:00 -0500
Message-ID: <200310281834.h9SIY0nM022392@math.Princeton.EDU>

My new T23 arrived.  I installed plan9 without problems and
then pulled the latest sources.  Now I am trying to get a
decent screen resolution.  I put a menu in plan9.ini
to allow me to choose from

	1) vgasize=640x480x8:  This works, of course, but is
	annoying.

	2) vgasize=800x600x8:  This has a weird speckled
	appearance, but it is tolerable for about 5 minutes.

	3) vgasize=1024x768x8:  This causes the screen to
	behave very strangely.  Nothing is legible.

all of these are with monitor=xga.  I assume the rest of
plan9.ini is not relevant.  I can post the rest if anyone
cares.  /lib/vgadb is whatever was on sources.  I didn't
change anything.  Does anyone with a T23 have any suggestions?
Thanks,
				John
--
John Stalker
Department of Mathematics
Princeton University
(609)258-6469

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* [9fans] T23 vga
@ 2003-10-28 18:34 John Stalker
  2003-10-28 17:27 ` Russ Cox
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: John Stalker @ 2003-10-28 18:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

My new T23 arrived.  I installed plan9 without problems and
then pulled the latest sources.  Now I am trying to get a
decent screen resolution.  I put a menu in plan9.ini
to allow me to choose from

	1) vgasize=640x480x8:  This works, of course, but is
	annoying.

	2) vgasize=800x600x8:  This has a weird speckled
	appearance, but it is tolerable for about 5 minutes.

	3) vgasize=1024x768x8:  This causes the screen to
	behave very strangely.  Nothing is legible.

all of these are with monitor=xga.  I assume the rest of
plan9.ini is not relevant.  I can post the rest if anyone
cares.  /lib/vgadb is whatever was on sources.  I didn't
change anything.  Does anyone with a T23 have any suggestions?
Thanks,
				John
--
John Stalker
Department of Mathematics
Princeton University
(609)258-6469


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* Re: [9fans] T23 vga
  2003-10-28 18:34 John Stalker
@ 2003-10-28 17:27 ` Russ Cox
  2003-10-28 18:39 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
  2003-10-30 12:48 ` David Presotto
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Russ Cox @ 2003-10-28 17:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

try using monitor=t23, and also use 1024x768x16.  it looks much better.
(of course if your screen is 1400x1050 use 1400x1050x16,
but i'm assuming you'd have mentioned that.)



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