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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:40:49 +0900
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] A note about AMD64 mainboards and Plan 9
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From: Vester Thacker <vthacker@0xfe.org>
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On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 02:27:47PM +0200, Philippe Anel wrote:
> 
> What's wrong with this chipset ?
> I've bought an Acer Aspire 1502 notebook with a KT800 chipset inside,
> and beside the broadcom ethernet (and wifi) missing drivers, it runs
> Plan9 quite fine.

I believe the KT800 and VT800 are different. It's been my experience
that they exhibit slightly differing behaviors. For example, my keyboard
and mouse become inoperative shortly after the boot prompt with the
VT800 and the same problem occurs once rio starts with the KT800. I 
can't explain it. 

--Vester Thacker