From: Leonardo Valencia <leov_plan9@mephisto.cotse.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Venti and Video questions
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 23:07:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44D55CF1.3090000@mephisto.cotse.net> (raw)
Greetings Plan9 community, as a follow up to my previous successful
install of the OS under Linux/Qemu, I now managed to install it in a
real computer (an old HP Vectra). But here is where the questions start
pouring.
First, my fossil+venti system gives me an "error 2" every time I boot
the machine (the message is about the arena being more recent than the
last write time). The machine boots fine after that but the message is
annoying and I am afraid it can indicate something more serious. Any
advice on how to get rid of it is greatly appreciated.
Second, my HP Vectra comes with a Matrox G200 video card, but the
1024x768x32 mode has never worked on it (not even under Linux or any
other OS) and running it on 8 bits mode is horrible, so I modified the
mga4xx.c driver to support 16 and 24 bpp modes in addition to the
original ones. The results were mixed: the 24 bpp mode works like a
charm with a multisync monitor, however the 16 bpp mode has the wrong
palette (kind of psychedelic). So any information on what should be the
correct palette for that card in 16bpp mode is appreciated too.
Finally, some advice for anyone that wants to install the OS in a HP
Vectra, make sure to disable the PnP OS support in the BIOS, otherwise
plan9 hangs forever just after the cpu message when trying to detect a
Network Card.
Again, any help is greatly appreciated.
Regards,
-Leonardo Valencia
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2006-08-06 3:07 Leonardo Valencia [this message]
2006-08-06 6:07 ` csant
2006-08-12 16:01 ` Leonardo Valencia
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