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From: Patrick Dubroy <email.addy@my.sig>
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Subject: [9fans] Video drivers
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 08:45:33 +0000
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Hi,

I am trying to install Plan 9 on an HP Vectra VL 5/166, which has
onboard video in the form of the S3 Trio64 V2/DX (86C775). To get rio to
start I added a line to vgadb, underneath the others for the 86C775
chipset:

0xC0048="HP/S3 86C775 Video BIOS. Version 1.01.04-H2"

And rio starts up fine, except about 3 quarters of the way across the
screen I get a big set of vertical colour stripes, and then the screen
starts to repeat itself.

On the floppy I have chosen generic Multisync monitor @ 65Hz, and I am
running only at 640x480, 8-bit colour.

So has anyone had similar problems with this card? From the hardware
compatibility lists it seems that the card was tested in previous
releases, but not the most recent release. Maybe it would be best to try
and find a new card?

Thanks,

Pat

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