From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <5ac385edb93187d89a1fc1897085406a@plan9.bell-labs.com> From: David Presotto To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Installation fails with NVIDIA card: aux/vga does not find the card. In-Reply-To: <87ptk3g8zc.fsf@rgristroph-austin.ath.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-nndmltphlauavzmdypwtozkaab" Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 05:30:45 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 003e35e4-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-nndmltphlauavzmdypwtozkaab Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It looks like my experimental floppy is a complete flop. However, this is more info. I didn't realize that the old boot floppy worked but that the installed stuff didn't. That makes my life easier. Ramon's "I found that the installation failed" was a git incomplete. I do see that rsc installed a new nvidia.c on June 1. The changes look more rather than less inclusive but I'll give them a closer look tonight. --upas-nndmltphlauavzmdypwtozkaab Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from plan9.cs.bell-labs.com ([135.104.9.2]) by plan9; Mon Jul 21 12:05:52 EDT 2003 Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by plan9; Mon Jul 21 12:05:49 EDT 2003 Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id ED54119B2B; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:05:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.6.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 8DD8419A7C; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:05:35 -0400 (EDT) X-Original-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id 5B21319AFD; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:04:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rgristroph-austin.ath.cx (cs24362-19.austin.rr.com [24.243.62.19]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id AA4DF19A7C for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:04:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rgr by rgristroph-austin.ath.cx with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19edBI-0005Pn-00; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 11:06:32 -0500 From: rgr@sdf.lonestar.org (Rob Ristroph) To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Installation fails with NVIDIA card: aux/vga does not find the card. References: In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <87ptk3g8zc.fsf@rgristroph-austin.ath.cx> Lines: 42 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Reply-To: rgr@sdf.lonestar.org List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: 21 Jul 2003 11:06:31 -0500 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,REFERENCES,USER_AGENT_GNUS_UA version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) >>>>> "Ram'on" == Ram'on Garc'ia Fern'andez writes: Ramon> Ramon> I downloaded a recent Plan9 distribution. I attempted to Ramon> reinstall completely my Plan9 system. I found that the Ramon> installation failed. Ramon> Ramon> aux/vga complained that it could not find my card in /lib/vgadb . Ramon> The command pci lists my card with the correct Vendor ID for NVidia Ramon> cards 0x10DE . Ramon> Ramon> So this must be a bug in a recent aux/vga. Ramon> Ramon> My card is a Riva TN2. I have already Plan9 installed with it, Ramon> and it works perfectly with Rio. Ramon> Ramon> Ramon I also have a Riva TNT which stopped being recognized after I did a pull and recompiled my kernel sometime last month. But the install floppy always recognized it and brought it up into rio just fine; it was the stuff installed to the harddrive that failed. I downloaded the experimental floppy and tried it out just now -- I don't think it ever got to the part where it runs aux/vga: 1262958 => 744660|1113032+83740=1941432 entry: 80100020 cpu0: 401MHz AuthenticAMD AMD-K6_III (cpuid: AX 0x0591 DX 0x8021BF) ELCR: 0A00 #l0: rtl8139: 100Mbps port 0xE800 irq 9: 00904703FA06 19313 free pages, 77252K bytes, 309252K swap boot: can't connect to file server: '/bzroot' file does not exist panic: boot process died: unknown cpu0: exiting Where there changes made to vga in May or early June ? I think something in Plan 9 changed in that period that made the nvidia not work from a clean install. --Rob --upas-nndmltphlauavzmdypwtozkaab--