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From: "Nigel Roles" <nigel@9fs.org>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Are nvidia-cards working with plan9?
Date: Wed,  4 Oct 2000 14:21:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <39DB3CE8.13472.13A85CF@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001004130747.03BC6199CF@mail>

You may well be right Russ. However, I thought that this
email demonstrated 'the right stuff'. Not

"changing my video card is too much trouble to run Plan 9",

but

"I'll etch my own silicon if needs be"


> 	s/I'll pass along the MOT S19 records for the 1.04 bios if anyone would
> 	like them//
>
> It seems to me that if replacing the BIOS is all
> that you need to do to get a card working, you
> should be able to just add the right BIOS string
> in vgadb instead: since we don't use the BIOS,
> if aux/vga works under the old BIOS it should
> work under the new one.
>
> Russ
>
>





  reply	other threads:[~2000-10-04 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-10-04 13:07 Russ Cox
2000-10-04 13:21 ` Nigel Roles [this message]
2000-10-05  8:22 ` jiho
2000-10-05  9:00   ` Lucio De Re
2000-10-09  9:04     ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-10-09 10:02       ` Lucio De Re
2000-10-09 12:57         ` Rick Hohensee
2000-10-09 17:46         ` Matt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-10-05 15:10 David Gordon Hogan
2000-10-09  9:05 ` jiho
2000-10-09  9:49   ` Lucio De Re
2000-10-11  8:47 ` jiho
2000-10-05  0:29 okamoto
2000-09-25 10:57 forsyth
2000-09-25 13:38 ` Conor
2000-09-28 10:18   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-10-02  9:01   ` root
2000-10-02 16:59     ` Scott Schwartz
2000-10-03  0:34       ` Rick Hohensee
2000-10-02  9:01   ` root
2000-10-03  8:49   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-10-04  8:45   ` jiho
2000-10-04 11:55     ` sah
2000-10-04 12:06       ` sah
2000-10-04  9:08   ` jiho
2000-10-02  9:03 ` root
2000-09-21  8:58 nigel
2000-09-25  9:22 ` MoJoJoJo
2000-09-21  8:27 Henri Philipps

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