From: tlaronde@polynum.com
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 16:9 display and freeze
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:50:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121017105018.GA500@polynum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <507E3ADB.2040103@gmail.com>
In answer to the description of my problems with display and a hard
freeze:
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:58:03AM -0400, Matthew Veety wrote:
> On 10/16/2012 8:07 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
> >
> >no. i used a 16:9 monitor for a short while. no ill effects. other than
> >an ugly picture.
> >
> >- erik
> >
>
> This sounds more like a hardware problem in your machine (not display)
> than a bug in Plan 9. Plan 9 crashing hard shouldn't do anything to the
> bios (unless it did something *really* nasty in /dev/realmode, but I
> can't think of anything that would trash the bios).
Thanks to both for your reply. I will have to investigate (and see what
is producing this).
Best,
--
Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
http://www.kergis.com/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-17 10:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-14 13:09 tlaronde
2012-10-17 0:07 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-17 4:58 ` Matthew Veety
2012-10-17 10:50 ` tlaronde [this message]
2012-10-17 10:53 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-17 11:02 ` tlaronde
2012-10-23 11:59 ` tlaronde
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