* [9fans] intel chipset graphics controller @ 2008-10-20 8:16 Yoshi Rokuko 2008-10-20 12:11 ` erik quanstrom 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Yoshi Rokuko @ 2008-10-20 8:16 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs Hey folks, yesterday I installed Plan 9 to my ThinkPad (X30) and the graphical installer worked fine (with 1024x768x8 and xga). And now if I first login with user glenda the display gets fading green into purple - looks scary. I had this once with a wrong or old/buggy intel driver under linux also ... Can't I just use the driver like in the installer? Regards, y0shi Here is what linux tells me with lspci: (visual http://yokuts.org/lspci.png) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad A/T/X Series Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Region 1: Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 1 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Kernel modules: intelfb -- psyc://nemesis.psyc.biz/~y0shi http://psyc.biz/y0shi_public.key ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] intel chipset graphics controller 2008-10-20 8:16 [9fans] intel chipset graphics controller Yoshi Rokuko @ 2008-10-20 12:11 ` erik quanstrom 2008-10-20 12:38 ` Yoshi Rokuko 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: erik quanstrom @ 2008-10-20 12:11 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans > Can't I just use the driver like in the installer? setting "monitor=vesa" would probablly do the trick. - erik ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] intel chipset graphics controller 2008-10-20 12:11 ` erik quanstrom @ 2008-10-20 12:38 ` Yoshi Rokuko 2008-10-20 12:51 ` erik quanstrom 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Yoshi Rokuko @ 2008-10-20 12:38 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs >> Can't I just use the driver like in the installer? > > setting "monitor=vesa" would probablly do the trick. > > - erik than I have a probably easy question: how can I get into the system and edit plan9.ini in order to add monitor=vesa? I know this (see down below), but how do I get there? 9fat: sam /n/9fat/plan9.ini Thanks again, regards, y0shi ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] intel chipset graphics controller 2008-10-20 12:38 ` Yoshi Rokuko @ 2008-10-20 12:51 ` erik quanstrom 2008-10-20 18:49 ` Yoshi Rokuko 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: erik quanstrom @ 2008-10-20 12:51 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans > than I have a probably easy question: how can I get into the system and > edit plan9.ini in order to add monitor=vesa? > > I know this (see down below), but how do I get there? i'm not sure what the problem is here. can you not view the screen? assuming that's the problem, you could * enter a bogus monitor & resolution if prompted * boot from livecd. if /dev/sdC0/9fat doesn't appear you may need to run cd /dev/sdC0 disk/fdisk -p data>ctl ; disk/prep -p plan9>ctl first - erik ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] intel chipset graphics controller 2008-10-20 12:51 ` erik quanstrom @ 2008-10-20 18:49 ` Yoshi Rokuko 0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Yoshi Rokuko @ 2008-10-20 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 841 bytes --] Am Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:51:44 -0400 schrieb erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>: > > than I have a probably easy question: how can I get into the system > > and edit plan9.ini in order to add monitor=vesa? > > > > I know this (see down below), but how do I get there? > > i'm not sure what the problem is here. can you not view the screen? > assuming that's the problem, you could > * enter a bogus monitor & resolution if prompted > * boot from livecd. if /dev/sdC0/9fat doesn't appear > you may need to run > cd /dev/sdC0 > disk/fdisk -p data>ctl ; disk/prep -p plan9>ctl > first > > - erik i just mountet 9fat from linux and edited monitor=xga into monitor=vesa now i have a screen to work with. thank you! regards, y0shi -- psyc://nemesis.psyc.biz/~y0shi http://psyc.biz/y0shi_public.key [-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 204 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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