[9fans] Update to Parallels docs for Plan 9 (very small update)

[9fans] Update to Parallels docs for Plan 9 (very small update)

[David Leimbach]

http://mordor.tip9ug.jp/who/leimy/parallels.html

Turns out Plan 9 does work @ 1344x840x32 just fine with Parallels on
Mac OS X in "vesa" mode.

I've updated my docs to reflect that.

16bpp mode does *not* work however and got me nothing but a black screen.

Couldn't even see the mouse cursor but luckily I was able to draw a
new window in Rio anyway, mount 9fat, and use "ed" to delete the line
that said "monitor=vesa" to get back to a non-graphical Plan 9 boot so
I could try 32bpp mode.

That was somewhat... exciting :-)  Maybe I should make this a CPU
server instance instead of a Terminal so I can drawterm in if I ever
do that again. :-)

Dave

[9fans] Re: Update to Parallels docs for Plan 9 (very small update)

[David Leimbach]

Interestingly, 32bpp vesa mode is only working when I first boot
parallels into 8bpp mode, then change my plan9.ini to show 32bpp and
then reboot.

32bpp on the first boot results in a failure to find the mode and then
being stuck in a text mode.

Dave

On 7/6/06, David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://mordor.tip9ug.jp/who/leimy/parallels.html
>
> Turns out Plan 9 does work @ 1344x840x32 just fine with Parallels on
> Mac OS X in "vesa" mode.
>
> I've updated my docs to reflect that.
>
> 16bpp mode does *not* work however and got me nothing but a black screen.
>
> Couldn't even see the mouse cursor but luckily I was able to draw a
> new window in Rio anyway, mount 9fat, and use "ed" to delete the line
> that said "monitor=vesa" to get back to a non-graphical Plan 9 boot so
> I could try 32bpp mode.
>
> That was somewhat... exciting :-)  Maybe I should make this a CPU
> server instance instead of a Terminal so I can drawterm in if I ever
> do that again. :-)
>
> Dave
>