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From: John Stalker <stalker@Math.Princeton.EDU>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Monitor Trouble At 4th Edition Install Disk Bootup (Quick Fix: 3rd Edition Anywhere, Anyone?)
Date: Mon,  8 Dec 2003 11:19:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200312081619.hB8GJ6Vp018110@fine1008.math.Princeton.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1ATMqW-00012X-DK@t40.swtch.com>


> > > The monitor trouble are lots and lots of horizontal distortion at
> > > install diskette bootup.  You can see more than five copies of the
> > > installation screen, all of them all set to go and very tempting.  The
> > > 3rd edition never caused this problem, and naturally I can't find any
> > > copy I ever had of it.  Monitor card is ATI Xpert98; it appears on the
> > > Bell Labs "worked on 3rd edition, not tried on 4th" list in the
> > > compatibility writeup.  Thanks for the help!  Quite a place here!
> >
> > Looks like an unsupported Rage, in this case it must be a later one.
>
> no, the xpert98 should be working.
> perhaps you should try a different monitor setting
> or a lower resolution to get going?

I've installed 4th editiion plan9 with an Xpert98.  Unfortunately that machine
now has a different video card, so I can't easily use it for testing.  I
don't remember what resolution I used, but at least 600x800x8 was working.
--
John Stalker
Department of Mathematics
Princeton University
(609)258-6469


  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-08 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-08 10:17 Tiit Lankots
2003-12-08 14:58 ` Russ Cox
2003-12-08 16:19   ` John Stalker [this message]
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2003-12-08 10:08 Space Beginner

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