Re: [9fans] PowerPC, usb, modem, etc.

["D. Brownlee" <brownlee@acm.org>]

andrey mirtchovski wrote:
>>Concerning plan9.ini: I want to experiment with my vga settings,
>>but if I get them wrong, the monitor just displays something
>>like "hsync out of range." Is there any way that I can drop
>>into terminal mode at that point in order to edit plan9.ini
>>and reboot. Will ^t^tr halt the filesystem? If there is no
>>way to get a terminal prompt, I could boot another OS and
>>edit plan9.ini from there.
>>
>
>
> you actually have rio running on the system, but you just can't see it.
>
> there are several things you can do:
>
> 	- ssh to the system (if it's a cpu server at least)
> 	- get a serial console running
> 	- cpu to the system from a remote machine
>
> i used to (pretty sure other people did too) just start X on the same
> monitor and get the hsync/vsync values from xvidtune. once set i've never
> had to change them.
>
> i see now that one of those still remains in /lib/vgadb --
>
> 	# from aam396@mail.usask.ca
>
> andrey
>
>
Thanks. I'll try xvidtune.