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From: "erik quanstrom" <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu, "LiteStar numnums" <litestar@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] vesa success list
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 18:05:00 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051113000500.DB9341AF6B6@dexter-peak.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <283f5df10511121458x6e4a61c6g35cb4882f9510c84@mail.gmail.com>

i've got a thinkpad 570 with a neomagic chipset that works perfectly with gentoo 
linux and X11. (after recompileing everything. the live cd assumes a pIII.)
although i haven't tried anything other than 1024x768x24.

man, that is one painful compile!

erik

LiteStar numnums <litestar@gmail.com> writes

| 
| This doesn't seem to be necessarily Plan9 problem, because I have a Neomagic
| in a TP 570 (will find the exact NeoMagic Nr. momentarily), and it blanks
| with certain modes of X (from OpenBSD) and all modes when returning to text
| mode from X. Did you have a problem with this card on another OS too?
| 
| On 11/12/05, Uriel <uriell@binarydream.org> wrote:
| >
| > On my Thinkpad 600X(Neomagic NM2360, MagicMedia 256ZX) I get a blank
| > screen, tried the 800x600x8 and 1024x768x16 resolutions with the same
| > result.
| >
| > The neomagic driver doesn't work properly with this card: the image is
| > displaced right and to the bottom and what is off the screen shows at
| > the top but with strange artifacts and noise.
| >
| > uriel


  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-13  0:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-11 21:24 Russ Cox
2005-11-12 19:48 ` Uriel
2005-11-12 20:15   ` Russ Cox
2005-11-12 20:19     ` Uriel
2005-11-12 20:40       ` Russ Cox
2005-11-12 22:58   ` LiteStar numnums
2005-11-13  0:05     ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2005-11-13  0:34       ` Vester Thacker
2005-11-13 22:23   ` Dave Eckhardt
2005-11-14  3:01     ` erik quanstrom
2005-11-14  4:25       ` jmk
2005-11-14 12:14 ` [9fans] " jalih
2005-11-23 20:22   ` andrey mirtchovski

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