From: Agnelo de la Crotche <agnelo.geo@yahoo.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] What a poor VGA support !
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 09:29:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D079A78.895ACEAE@yahoo.com> (raw)
I don't know very much about Plan9. All I can tell is that it has the
poorest ( and highlest dangerous) VGA support I have never seen for an
operating system. Now somebody is going to ask ( or maybe even not )
: What kind of video adapter do you have ? Have you try to change this
or that in plan9.ini ? Do you see a red screen ? ... as I was already
asked one year ago, and two years ago.
OK ! It's a bummer. I was starting to hope that something would have
changed with that last release. But you (?) definitely do not want to
support my video card.
But , please, tell me, because I'm curious : Why is it so difficult, so
impossible to add some kind of minimum VGA support ?
Guess, I have an ATI Xpert (Rage Pro). Why that one and why do I not
intend to replace it ? Simple, because it is supported by the 28 other
operating systems I managed to install on that machine. Nobody but Plan9
has trouble (and makes trouble ! Don't mention my old monitor ! ) with
it.
I 'm not a video expert (definitely not) but as much as I can see when
booting Plan9 with video auto detection ( At least, I can boot in
console mode but to do what ? ), something is wrong or missing in the
Mach64 driver, which all other OS (i.e BeOS, QNX, AtheOS) have solved.
Is there "definitely" no hope of a solution ?
agnelo
next reply other threads:[~2002-06-13 9:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-13 9:29 Agnelo de la Crotche [this message]
2002-06-13 14:19 ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-06-13 17:46 ` Dan Cross
2002-06-14 8:45 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-14 14:41 ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-06-14 8:45 ` Agnelo de la Crotche
2002-06-13 13:16 forsyth
2002-06-13 16:45 ` plan9
2002-06-13 14:21 presotto
2002-06-14 11:08 ` Agnelo de la Crotche
2002-06-14 14:26 ` Agnelo de la Crotche
2002-06-14 16:37 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2002-06-14 20:16 ` Jason Gurtz
2002-06-15 0:27 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2002-06-17 9:14 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-16 22:41 ` Digby Tarvin
2002-06-19 8:45 ` Agnelo de la Crotche
2002-06-17 9:14 ` Agnelo de la Crotche
2002-06-13 14:47 Russ Cox
2002-06-14 9:44 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-06-14 13:50 ` Agnelo de la Crotche
2002-06-14 14:42 andrey mirtchovski
2002-06-14 15:51 Russ Cox
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