[9fans] ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage II+ 215GTB [Mach64 GTB]

[9fans] ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage II+ 215GTB [Mach64 GTB]

[Yehoshua (Shay) O'Hayon Suchar]

Hello 9fans.

I just installed plan9 on one of my machines, but it seems like my video
card it's not supported.

Linux says:
$ lspci |grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage II+
215GTB [Mach64 GTB] (rev 9a)

>From a little research that I did before installing plan9, I was kinda
sure that all the Mach64 card are supported.

In the installation it didn't bring "rio" up, instead it gave me an
error; "no frame buffer", so I decided to make the textonly installation
and then try to solve the video issue.

So I finished the installation and here I am, trying to find out if I
can make this video card to work on plan9, and asking if someone had
solved this already.

I searched the mailing this archive and found this:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=9t1b3q%24crc%241%40newpoisson.nosc.mil&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dplan9%2B%2Bmach64%2Bgtb%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D9t1b3q%2524crc%25241%2540newpoisson.nosc.mil%26rnum%3D1
I think that is the same problem that I have, is there any success?

Any help would be appreciated.

Shay.

Re: [9fans] ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage II+ 215GTB [Mach64 GTB]

[andrey mirtchovski]

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Yehoshua (Shay) O'Hayon Suchar wrote:

> Linux says:
> $ lspci |grep VGA
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage II+
> 215GTB [Mach64 GTB] (rev 9a)
>

do an 'lspci -n' and save the vid/did pair for the same device (vid should
be 0x1002, i believe).

edit /lib/vgadb on the plan9 machine and add the vid/did pair to the ctlr
section for ati cards (ctlr=mach64xx).

reboot and if you see that it works send the change to vgadb to bell labs :)

good luck :)

andrey

Re: [9fans] ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage II+ 215GTB [Mach64 GTB]

[andrey mirtchovski]

> Thanks andrey, it works
>
> The line I added is:
>
> vid=0x1002 did=0x4755
>

i've added this to the patch fs on sources as vgadb-rage (just FYI)

andrey

Re: [9fans] ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage II+ 215GTB [Mach64 GTB]

[Yehoshua (Shay) O'Hayon Suchar]

Hmm, seems like adding this isn't enough, I got "rio" but I can't see
anything, the screen looks fuzzy, at first I though that it has
something to do with the monitor setting, but I tryed various
combinations in the "vgasize" line, on plan9.ini, and nothing seems to
work, tryed with two different monitors.

Any ideas? maybe there's something to be changed/added to the
driver/vgadb file?

Thanks.

El sáb, 10-07-2004 a las 21:25, andrey mirtchovski escribió:
> > Thanks andrey, it works
> >
> > The line I added is:
> >
> > vid=0x1002 did=0x4755
> >
> 
> i've added this to the patch fs on sources as vgadb-rage (just FYI)
> 
> andrey

Re: [9fans] ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage II+ 215GTB [Mach64 GTB]

[andrey mirtchovski]

> Hmm, seems like adding this isn't enough, I got "rio" but I can't see
> anything, the screen looks fuzzy, at first I though that it has
> something to do with the monitor setting, but I tryed various
> combinations in the "vgasize" line, on plan9.ini, and nothing seems to
> work, tryed with two different monitors.
>
> Any ideas? maybe there's something to be changed/added to the
> driver/vgadb file?
>
> Thanks.
>

that's not very good...  what resolutions are you trying it with?
start with 800x600x8 and work your way up.

there may be changes to the vga driver required -- look at XFree86's
driver for hints (usual movie quote applies: "Smokey, my friend,
you're entering a world of pain").

Re: [9fans] ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage II+ 215GTB [Mach64 GTB]

[Yehoshua (Shay) O'Hayon Suchar]

El dom, 11-07-2004 a las 00:51, andrey mirtchovski escribió:
> > Hmm, seems like adding this isn't enough, I got "rio" but I can't see
> > anything, the screen looks fuzzy, at first I though that it has
> > something to do with the monitor setting, but I tryed various
> > combinations in the "vgasize" line, on plan9.ini, and nothing seems to
> > work, tryed with two different monitors.
> > 
> > Any ideas? maybe there's something to be changed/added to the
> > driver/vgadb file?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> 
> that's not very good...  what resolutions are you trying it with?
> start with 800x600x8 and work your way up.
> 

Heh, well, I tryed with all the resolution that I found in the vgadb
file, with both monitors (that why it took me too long to send the mail
saying that there's more about that card, and that's why I got to the
conclusion that it is the card and not the monitor.

> there may be changes to the vga driver required -- look at XFree86's
> driver for hints (usual movie quote applies: "Smokey, my friend,
> you're entering a world of pain").
> 

"Pain is good" said Silas, the hulking albino. (The Da Vinci Code - Dan
Brown :)