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

On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 04:24:44PM -0500, Russ Cox wrote:
> If you have a vga card that works with vesa,
> especially if it doesn't work without vesa, please
> add it to the wiki page [supported PC hardware]:
> http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/supported_pc_hardware/
>
> Thanks to Dave Eckhardt for the suggestion.
> Russ

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