From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3EF741FD.4030209@acm.org> From: "D. Brownlee" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030618 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] PowerPC, usb, modem, etc. References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 11:07:57 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d7fa4b86-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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.