From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <507E3ADB.2040103@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:58:03 -0400 From: Matthew Veety User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <20121014130956.GA563@polynum.com> <7430ebb32d753b51abc765650a489b40@brasstown.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: <7430ebb32d753b51abc765650a489b40@brasstown.quanstro.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] 16:9 display and freeze Topicbox-Message-UUID: be21933e-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 10/16/2012 8:07 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> Nothing but the monitor has changed. The graphic card has not >> changed, it is still a ATI Technologies Radeon 9200SE. My configuration >> for Plan9 has not changed either for the video stuff (whether >> 800x600 or 1024x768, I will have to check; but the monitor "auto >> adapts" so some discrepancy between what the monitor and the card >> agree to use and the size of the software buffer is not impossible). >> >> When testing a new get_mk_install.rc and compilation for kerTeX, >> a couple of seconds after switching to scroll mode (for kerTeX >> compilation) under Plan9 (native), the machine froze hard. I had >> to cold reboot, since simply rebooting, the BIOS had problems: >> something has been trashed. >> >> Had anyone already encountered such behavior? Hints about the >> "whodunit"? And a cure? > > no. i used a 16:9 monitor for a short while. no ill effects. other than > an ugly picture. > > - erik > This sounds more like a hardware problem in your machine (not display) than a bug in Plan 9. Plan 9 crashing hard shouldn't do anything to the bios (unless it did something *really* nasty in /dev/realmode, but I can't think of anything that would trash the bios). -- Veety