[9fans] Need more help with Viper 550 (nVidia)

[9fans] Need more help with Viper 550 (nVidia)

[Matt Senecal]

I tried installing Plan 9 on my system with the Diamond Viper 550
today, following the instructions given at:
http://users.bigpond.net.au/nwaples/install.txt

During installation I got the rio GUI, and everything installed fine.
After I rebooted to run the installed system, I got the following
error:

   rio: [handwriting intelligible] display:initdisplay: /dev/draw/new:
no framebuffer
   init: rc exit status: rio 10: display open

When I try to start rio manually (riostart) I get the following notice
twice:
   
   $wsys not defined

Does anyone know what might be causing this?

Re: [9fans] Need more help with Viper 550 (nVidia)

[Lucio De Re]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 09:00:42AM +0000, Matt Senecal wrote:
> 
>    rio: [handwriting intelligible] display:initdisplay: /dev/draw/new:
> no framebuffer
>    init: rc exit status: rio 10: display open
> 
Did you copy the vgadb file from the floopy disk to the hard drive?
And are you using a Plan 9 kernel with the Viper fixes in it?

++L

Re: [9fans] Need more help with Viper 550 (nVidia)

[Matt Senecal]

Yes. I eventually re-installed Plan 9 and it worked that time around.
Probably some stupid mistake on my part.

"Lucio De Re" <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote in message
news:20011025114012.W2648@cackle.proxima.alt.za...
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 09:00:42AM +0000, Matt Senecal wrote:
> >
> >    rio: [handwriting intelligible] display:initdisplay: /dev/draw/new:
> > no framebuffer
> >    init: rc exit status: rio 10: display open
> >
> Did you copy the vgadb file from the floopy disk to the hard drive?
> And are you using a Plan 9 kernel with the Viper fixes in it?
>
> ++L

[9fans] Fixed!

[Matt Senecal]

I eventually re-installed Plan 9 and it worked. I probably made some stupid
mistake that I didn't catch during the first installation. Easy to do when
your 1-year-old daughter is trying to re-organize your den during the
installation.... :)

Sorry for the trouble.

"Matt Senecal" <msenecal@logicon.com> wrote in message
news:50ecc828.0110241522.249087f2@posting.google.com...
> I tried installing Plan 9 on my system with the Diamond Viper 550
> today, following the instructions given at:
> http://users.bigpond.net.au/nwaples/install.txt
>
> During installation I got the rio GUI, and everything installed fine.
> After I rebooted to run the installed system, I got the following
> error:
>
>    rio: [handwriting intelligible] display:initdisplay: /dev/draw/new:
> no framebuffer
>    init: rc exit status: rio 10: display open
>
> When I try to start rio manually (riostart) I get the following notice
> twice:
>
>    $wsys not defined
>
> Does anyone know what might be causing this?