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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:50:18 +0200
From: tlaronde@polynum.com
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 16:9 display and freeze
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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>
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