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From: "Stanley Lieber" <stanley.lieber@gmail.com>
Date: Wed,  6 Apr 2011 04:12:45 -0500
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Subject: [9fans] video cards for 1920x1080
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> From: Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan <vdharani@gma...>
> Subject: suggestion for a video card
> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:53:58 -0700
>
> hi,
>
> i am looking for a video card for plan9.
>
> here are my requirements:
>
> - should do 1920x1080 at 60Hz so i can connect to my LCD TV via HDMI
> - HDMI connector preferable but if the card does 1920x1080, i can use
> DVI to HDMI adapter
> - would be nice if it can also do 1920x1200
>
> has anyone played with such a card? is it orderable? any suggestions?
>
> any help appreciated.
>
> regards
> dharani

This post didn't garner a response. A couple of years later,
I have the same question. Is anyone running Plan 9 native
at 1920x1080 with an LCD monitor? What video card are you
using? What tweaks were necessary to get it to work?

The Nvidia card I use with OpenBSD crashes Plan 9 when I
attempt xga above 640x480x8. With cinap's realemu I'm able
to run at 800x600x32, but the card's VESA bios doesn't report
any available modes above 800x600. Some other cards I had
sitting around yielded higher resolutions under realemu (VMware
even reports 1920x1080 as a valid mode under VESA), but I
haven't yet hit upon the right combination to drive my LCD
monitor at 1920x1080.

-sl