On 10/25/07, Jeff Sickel <jas@corpus-callosum.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 23, 2007, at 5:23 PM, David Leimbach wrote:
>
> > On 9/18/07, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Try disabling the vga hw acceleration. I had some
> >>> problems with it and vmware.
> >>
> >> thank you steve and esoriano. i had tried that first but apparently
> >> i mistyped it. your reaffirmation and a few hours of sleep made
> >> all the difference.
> >>
> >>
> > I'm running VMWare Fusion on a Mac, my hardware acceleration in
> > VMWare is
> > off, but I still get the problem with black screen and weird Rio
> > behavior.
> >
> > Is there a Plan 9 option to try here?
>
> I got the install to work by forcing in the hwaccel off.  But then
> logging in as glenda to start setting things up just didn't get far
> enough to force in hwaccel off again.



I got that far too.  With IDE and SCSI, Venti seems to hang there.  Did you
use fossil+venti or just fossil?


Had to manually screw up the monitor settings to get the opportunity to turn
off hwaccel though.  I wish this were a boot option in the install mode :-).

Also aux/vmware doesn't work on Fusion.

Dave