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From: "Szymon Olewniczak" <szymon.olewniczak@rid.pl>
To: "\"Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs\"" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Multi monitor setup
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:04:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44f368cca049cdd1eb9fe7b48045344f.qmail@home.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140319201328.GA1396@spark.home>

>> is there any support to dual monitor setup?
>
>no.
>
>> Can I rotate monitor in plan 9?
>
>no.
>
>> How does support of video cards looks like in general?
>
>poor.
>
>see /sys/src/9/pc/vga*.c files. most of these are very old. the only
>realiable way to use a video card on 32- and 64-bit intel platforms is
>to use VESA.

Ok, I understeand. So, maybe it's a good idea as a gsoc proposal. Do you
think that it will be hard to implement this features in nvidia cards, using
nouveau project as a reference? 

BTW. what is a relation between inferno an Plan9. Does the hardware that is
supported by plan9 also works on inferno or it's not such easy relation.


BR,
Szymon

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-03-20 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-19 20:13 Szymon Olewniczak
2014-03-20 11:38 ` Nick Owens
2014-03-20 14:04 ` Szymon Olewniczak [this message]
2014-03-20 14:15   ` erik quanstrom
2014-03-20 19:45     ` Szymon Olewniczak
2014-03-20 22:17   ` Nicholas Waples
2014-03-21  0:39     ` erik quanstrom
2014-03-21  8:44       ` Jiten Pathy
2014-03-21  9:11         ` Jiten Pathy

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