From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Agnelo de la Crotche Message-ID: <3D079A78.895ACEAE@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] What a poor VGA support ! Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 09:29:19 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: aba6d654-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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