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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:56:35 -0600
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Subject: [9fans] ATI Rage 3D Iic
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Hi,

I'm trying to install the latest distribution of Plan 9 but I'm having te=
rrible trouble getting rio to start. I've tried adding an entry for my vi=
deo card in VGADB but then I just get a blank screen (after looking at th=
e bios dump by aux/vga) even at 640x480x8. If I remove my entry, Plan 9 j=
ust tells me that my card can't be found in VGADB.

My video card is an embedded AGP bus ATI Rage 3D Iic card in my motherboa=
rd with 4MB of memory. The BIOS string has something like MACH64GW, but I=
 fear it may not be compatible with the Mach 64 driver in Plan 9 (because=
 of the blank screen). I figure I can port the ATI Rage 3D Iic from the X=
Free86 project or something in the long term, but in the short term I jus=
t want to get the install rolling.

Is there a generic VGA driver for Plan 9 that isn't accelerated and just =
uses the generic PC VGA IO ports for display? I'm not sure if that would =
be dependent on BIOS interrupts or not, hopefully not. Any help would be =
extremely appreciated!
-rian