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Subject: Re: [9fans] vga support for Via Unichrome
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Lyndon Nerenberg - VE6BBM/VE7TFX wrote:
> Is anyone working on Unichrome vga support?
>
>

Besides Unichrome, which CPU, RAM, MB & ~bridge chips are you trying to use it with?

ISTR having it up on a VIA C3 ~ 700 MHz, 1 GB SDRAM with embedded Unichrome
onboard about 2+ years ago..

And the CD still here boots fine on a Pentium-M Lenovo laptop.

However - it will not boot on a newer VIA C6 1.5 GHz 2 GB DDR2 RAM, also with
(newer) embedded unichrome on-board.

I suspect the VIA ~bridge chipset is not au fait with getting Plan9 to the CDR.

NB: XCPU live CD is happy  - but that isn't booting a Plan9 - just hosting it on
Fedora.

Bill Hacker