From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 23:24:05 +0200 From: Wynand Winterbach To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Message-ID: <20040523212405.GB7434@dip.sun.ac.za> References: <20040523160016.E96CF19A7A@mail.cse.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040523160016.E96CF19A7A@mail.cse.psu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Subject: [9fans] Display problem Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8578dff6-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 First a bit of useless history (may be skipped): Originally I heard about Plan 9 in a CS lecture at uni. The lecturer was raving about how cool it was, but that it wasn't "object oriented" etc. In my ignorance I dismissed it (what a stupid mistake). A while ago I read Eric Raymond's "The Art of Unix Programming", and I read about Plan 9, but he spoke about it as if it was more or less dead. Then the other day I stumbled across it on the Net, and started reading more. The more I read, the more excited I got. I have to tag down to my local cyber cafe for internet access, since I'm a poor student, and net access is comparatively expensive in South Africa. However, I was adamant that Plan 9 must be the coolest thing since sliced bread, and I blew a few bucks to download the distro. ---- Greatly excited, I installed it, and the installation went well. After that is where things however went awry... When I boot up, everything goes well until it starts up Rio. It prints 3 lines (where pc differs for each): fifo stat 0 scrio dc000000 scr 80304C74 pc 80171E9C fifo stat 0 scrio dc000000 scr 80304C74 pc 80171E9C fifo stat 0 scrio dc000000 scr 80304C74 pc 80171E9C then it prints character by character (SLOWLY): dossrc: serving #s/dos After this it continues in its slow char by char mode, and prints the previous line (the one starting with fifo). I assume this line is a debug line, and that pc is the program counter? Anyhow, nothing happens after that :( I have a classic Athlon, a Via KX 133 (I think) motherboard, which uses the 82C686 IDE chipset, and an Nvidia TNT 2 - according to the Wiki, this setup should work flawlessly. I tried to replace the TNT 2 with an old ATI board (I don't know which one it is. A Rage board I think) - this allowed me at least to see a highly corrupted version of the window manager, but it was pretty useless. I'm really disappointed, since this OS seems so cool. If anyone has any short (less than 160 characters) suggestions, please send them to 0824576827@voda.co.za, which will deliver a text message to my mobile phone :). Thanks in advance. -- Wynand Winterbach wynand@dip.sun.ac.za --------------------------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER Anything said within this e-mail is solely the opinion of Wynand Winterbach. No orginisation with which Wynand Winterbach is affiliated or associated in any way whatsoever may be held responsible in any way for anything said, implied or otherwise insinuated in this e-mail. Id est, hold your legal horses! --------------------------------------------------------------------- COMMERCIALISM RANT COMMERCIALISM RANT COMMERCIALISM RANT Consumerism = bad. Why? Comsumers are meant *only* to consume. What can I do!? Go the Open Source way: 1. General info http://www.libresociety.org http://www.gnu.org 2. Music, Movies, and other media http://www.locarecords.com http://creativecommons.org http://www.free-music.org 3. Software http://www.gnu.org http://www.linux.org http://www.debian.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------