From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:58:33 -0500 From: Venkatesh Srinivas To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20100127135832.GA32067@endeavour> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Subject: [9fans] vgaradeon (was Re: Problem of last update?) Topicbox-Message-UUID: c8776ce8-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 08:07:12AM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: >> aux/vga: vgactlw: : bad VGA control message "type radeon" >> ... >> rio: can't open display: initdisplay: /dev/draw/new: no frame buffer >> init: rc exit status: rio 23: display open > >you need to add vgaradeon +cur to your plan9.ini. I guess this brings up something else. On 1/19, the Radeon driver made it into the Plan 9 distribution; anyone with a Radeon R100 (7000, 7500, Mobility M6, M7), some R200 (8500, 9000) or some R300s (9500, 9700) is encouraged to try them out, see if they feel faster or work for you or whatnot. The driver also has, disabled-by-default, hardware-accelerated fill and scroll routines. If you wish to try them out, modify /sys/src/9/pc/vgaradeon.c to define HW_ACCEL; I'd like to hear if they work on your card and if you can feel any difference. In the short term future, I hope to test the driver on a number of other cards and add some PCI IDs/anything-else-needed, such as the R9600, 9800, and 9200/9250. Longer-term, my goal is always support for more cards. Take care, -- vs