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Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:55:16 +0200
From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] patch for installation in vmware
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I thought I had submitted a patch for this a while ago (which as
accepted), but maybe I missed the installer. In any case, using
patch(1) will have a better chance of getting in.

Peace and best wishes

uriel

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:07 PM, Antonin Vecera
<antonin.vecera@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I proposed a patch which turns off hw acceleration for vga if you boot
> in VMware.
> But now I find out that it is necessary to do the same in installation tree.
> So, if anybody can, please, correct this file /386/bin/aux/vmware on
> installation CD (add 1 line):
>
> #!/bin/rc
>
> if(aux/isvmware -s){
>        echo hwaccel off >'#v/vgactl'           <-- add this command
>        echo -n off >'#P/i8253timerset'
>        for(i in '#S'/sd??)
>                if(test -f $i/ctl)
>                        echo dma on >$i/ctl
> }
>
>
>
> Thanks
> and have a nice day.
>
> Antonin
>
>