From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:09:41 +0100 Message-ID: From: "Peter A. Cejchan" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=e89a8f83ab4990005a04d8310694 Subject: [9fans] [RQ]: plan9 native 1920x1200 VGA recommendation Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2db3be5c-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --e89a8f83ab4990005a04d8310694 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi, 9friends, could anyone recommend (personal experience would be nice) a VGA card that can support 1920x1200 mode on native Plan 9 from Bell Labs (from Bell Labs ;-) ? Yes, I've read the wiki but it seems a bit outdated (?). Maybe not, I can't tell. Unfortunately, I am 50+ and my vision deteriorates rapidly :-((( Any help much appreciated. PS: >8bit depth would be nice, too ;-) Thanks, ++pac --e89a8f83ab4990005a04d8310694 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, 9friends,

could anyone recommend (personal experience would be n= ice) a VGA card that can support
1920x1200 mode on native Plan 9 from Be= ll Labs (from Bell Labs ;-)
?

Yes, I've read the wiki but it = seems a bit outdated (?). Maybe not, I can't tell.
Unfortunately, I am 50+ and my vision deteriorates rapidly :-(((

Any= help much appreciated.
PS: >8bit depth would be nice, too ;-)
Thanks,
++pac


--e89a8f83ab4990005a04d8310694-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: Sergey Zhilkin Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:28:40 +0400 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=14dae934070d9a92b404d8314b7f Subject: Re: [9fans] [RQ]: plan9 native 1920x1200 VGA recommendation Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2dba6cde-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --14dae934070d9a92b404d8314b7f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello ! I have i810 (very old celeron based terminal), it works with 1600x1200 mode. But it's 9legacy. 2013/3/18 Peter A. Cejchan > Hi, 9friends, > > could anyone recommend (personal experience would be nice) a VGA card tha= t > can support > 1920x1200 mode on native Plan 9 from Bell Labs (from Bell Labs ;-) > ? > > Yes, I've read the wiki but it seems a bit outdated (?). Maybe not, I > can't tell. > Unfortunately, I am 50+ and my vision deteriorates rapidly :-((( > > Any help much appreciated. > PS: >8bit depth would be nice, too ;-) > > Thanks, > ++pac > > > --=20 =D0=A1 =D0=BD=D0=B0=D0=B8=D0=BB=D1=83=D1=87=D1=88=D0=B8=D0=BC=D0=B8 =D0=BF= =D0=BE=D0=B6=D0=B5=D0=BB=D0=B0=D0=BD=D0=B8=D1=8F=D0=BC=D0=B8 =D0=96=D0=B8=D0=BB=D0=BA=D0=B8=D0=BD =D0=A1=D0=B5=D1=80=D0=B3=D0=B5=D0=B9 With best regards Zhilkin Sergey --14dae934070d9a92b404d8314b7f Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hello !

I have i810 (very old celeron based termin= al), it works with 1600x1200 mode. But it's 9legacy.


2013/3/18 Peter A. Ce= jchan <tyapca7@gmail.com>
Hi, 9friends,

could anyone recommend = (personal experience would be nice) a VGA card that can support
1920x120= 0 mode on native Plan 9 from Bell Labs (from Bell Labs ;-)
?

Yes, I've read the wiki but it seems a bit outdated (?). Maybe= not, I can't tell.
Unfortunately, I am 50+ and my vision deteriorates rapidly :-(((

Any= help much appreciated.
PS: >8bit depth would be nice, too ;-)
Thanks,
++pac





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With best regards
Zhilkin= Sergey
--14dae934070d9a92b404d8314b7f-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:30:49 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <3083b980978b44d68e478d25b6b5e8be@brasstown.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] [RQ]: plan9 native 1920x1200 VGA recommendation Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2dcaec30-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Hi, 9friends, > > could anyone recommend (personal experience would be nice) a VGA card that > can support > 1920x1200 mode on native Plan 9 from Bell Labs (from Bell Labs ;-) i've had good luck with the supermicro x7sla motherboard, which supports 1600x1200x16, and i use an ancient ECS IC890GXM-A with this video device @ 1600x1200x16 1.5.0: vid 03.00.00 1002/9714 10 0:d0000008 268435456 1:0000b001 256 2:fddf0000 65536 5:fdc00000 1048576 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS880 [Radeon HD 4290] there are also 1920x1440 modes available, but my monitor does support them. i'm running the atom nix kernel now, but the atom pc and pcpae kernels work as well. by the way, i can never remember motherboard models, so dmi(8) http://www.quanstro.net/magic/man2html/8/dmi is a big help. - erik From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <463a326270441c0f7fb3bcdd9ecd96b6@quintile.net> From: "Steve Simon" Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:05:02 +0000 To: 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] [RQ]: plan9 native 1920x1200 VGA recommendation Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2e4708e2-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 1920x1200 mode on native Plan 9 Not quite there but I use a Dell 2007fp MONITOR at work at 1600x1200x16 driven from an NVida GeForece MX-200. Sadly this is has a VGA rather than DVI connector so its a bit soft. I keep it because I like the fact that the MX-200 is accelerated which is worth having (IMHO). -Steve From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:08:47 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <9369239be2dfbb5fe2d4a407c272e835@coraid.com> In-Reply-To: <463a326270441c0f7fb3bcdd9ecd96b6@quintile.net> References: <463a326270441c0f7fb3bcdd9ecd96b6@quintile.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] [RQ]: plan9 native 1920x1200 VGA recommendation Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2e4f466a-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon Mar 18 16:06:25 EDT 2013, steve@quintile.net wrote: > > 1920x1200 mode on native Plan 9 > > Not quite there but I use a Dell 2007fp MONITOR at work at 1600x1200x16 driven from > an NVida GeForece MX-200. Sadly this is has a VGA rather than DVI connector > so its a bit soft. I keep it because I like the fact that the MX-200 is > accelerated which is worth having (IMHO). hmmm. that must be influenced by the construction of the card. i have a very good image at 1600x1200x16 with the same monitor using vesa on a variety of machines. even through a kvm it looks fine. - erik From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: "Steve Simon" Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:49:18 +0000 To: 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: <9369239be2dfbb5fe2d4a407c272e835@coraid.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] [RQ]: plan9 native 1920x1200 VGA recommendation Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2e544fde-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I was always happy with it but when experimenting with another machine (using the vesa driver) connected to the DVI input of the monitor - I was shocked by how much better it looked. -Steve From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 References: In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: <67F3FC0B-81E4-41EE-84BA-ECA6DEC0FF06@orthanc.ca> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Lyndon Nerenberg Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:43:50 -0700 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] [RQ]: plan9 native 1920x1200 VGA recommendation Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2e9bb93c-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 2013-03-18, at 4:09 AM, Peter A. Cejchan wrote: > could anyone recommend (personal experience would be nice) a VGA card = that can support > 1920x1200 mode on native Plan 9 from Bell Labs (from Bell Labs ;-) My ancient Via Epia EK-10000G mini-ITX motherboard does 1920x1080x(24 or = 32? I forget, and can't check right this second) out of the on-board VGA = via the Chrome VESA BIOS. That machine will be my favourite Plan 9 = terminal until the end of time, I suspect ... --lyndon From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 06:57:45 +0000 From: Andy Spencer To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20130319065745.GA32541@pileus.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Subject: Re: [9fans] [RQ]: plan9 native 1920x1200 VGA recommendation Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2ea0b8e2-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 2013-03-18 12:09, Peter A. Cejchan wrote: > could anyone recommend (personal experience would be nice) a VGA card > that can support 1920x1200 mode on native Plan 9 from Bell Labs (from > Bell Labs ;-) ? I used to use a Dell M70 laptop with a 1920x1200 display. It had an "Nvidia Quadro FX Go 1400" card which worked just fine with Plan 9. It's been years since I used it, but I remember I had to boot the laptop in Linux and dump the modeline out of X somehow. I don't remember the specifics on how to do that, but then I just pasted it into vgadb and set the options in plan9.ini and everything worked great. I doubt it will help anyone, but here are the settings I used: plan9.ini: | monitor=dellm70 | vgasize=1920x1200x32 vgadb: | dellm70=1920x1200x32 | clock=162 | shb=2020 ehb=2108 ht=2160 | vrs=1201 vre=1204 vt=1250 | hsync=+ vsync=+ From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20130319065745.GA32541@pileus.org> References: <20130319065745.GA32541@pileus.org> From: John Floren Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:04:12 -0700 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] [RQ]: plan9 native 1920x1200 VGA recommendation Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2f17b28a-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Andy Spencer wrote: > On 2013-03-18 12:09, Peter A. Cejchan wrote: >> could anyone recommend (personal experience would be nice) a VGA card >> that can support 1920x1200 mode on native Plan 9 from Bell Labs (from >> Bell Labs ;-) ? > > I used to use a Dell M70 laptop with a 1920x1200 display. It had an > "Nvidia Quadro FX Go 1400" card which worked just fine with Plan 9. > > It's been years since I used it, but I remember I had to boot the laptop > in Linux and dump the modeline out of X somehow. I don't remember the > specifics on how to do that, but then I just pasted it into vgadb and > set the options in plan9.ini and everything worked great. > > I doubt it will help anyone, but here are the settings I used: > > plan9.ini: > | monitor=dellm70 > | vgasize=1920x1200x32 > > vgadb: > | dellm70=1920x1200x32 > | clock=162 > | shb=2020 ehb=2108 ht=2160 > | vrs=1201 vre=1204 vt=1250 > | hsync=+ vsync=+ > Here's the process I used to moderate success: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/adding_a_monitor_to_vgadb/ Worked with a Syncmaster 240T, which was 1920x1200. john From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 References: <67F3FC0B-81E4-41EE-84BA-ECA6DEC0FF06@orthanc.ca> In-Reply-To: <67F3FC0B-81E4-41EE-84BA-ECA6DEC0FF06@orthanc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: <75AD22BF-03DD-465E-AD93-162BFDED6049@bitblocks.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Bakul Shah Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:49:16 -0700 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] [RQ]: plan9 native 1920x1200 VGA recommendation Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2f47aada-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mar 18, 2013, at 6:43 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: >=20 > On 2013-03-18, at 4:09 AM, Peter A. Cejchan wrote: >=20 >> could anyone recommend (personal experience would be nice) a VGA card tha= t can support >> 1920x1200 mode on native Plan 9 from Bell Labs (from Bell Labs ;-) >=20 > My ancient Via Epia EK-10000G mini-ITX motherboard does 1920x1080x(24 or 3= 2? I forget, and can't check right this second) out of the on-board VGA via t= he Chrome VESA BIOS. That machine will be my favourite Plan 9 terminal unti= l the end of time, I suspect ... An HDMI display + a RaspberryPi can make a decent terminal. No h/w accelerat= ion yet either with x11/Linux or 9pi but its speed is good enough for me. an= openVG version of p9p /dev/draw would speed things up.... Porting their ope= n source openVG user land code to 9pi is a much bigger task (too many Linux d= ependencies).= From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20130319065745.GA32541@pileus.org> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:01:26 +0100 Message-ID: From: "Peter A. Cejchan" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=e89a8f83ab498e407604d85777df Subject: Re: [9fans] [RQ]: plan9 native 1920x1200 VGA recommendation Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2f810708-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --e89a8f83ab498e407604d85777df Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Thank you, thank you, a _big_ thank you, folks! I will add a line how to parse the XFree86 Modeline to the wiki, the link is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFree86_Modeline Now it works great with my Dell DELL U2412Mb monitor and NVIDIA Corporation NV44 [GeForce 6200 LE] graphics card. Tears in my eyes... you helped me sooooo much! Have a great first day of Spring (at least here in Northern hemisphere :-) ++pac > Here's the process I used to moderate success: > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/adding_a_monitor_to_vgadb/ > > Worked with a Syncmaster 240T, which was 1920x1200. > > john > > --e89a8f83ab498e407604d85777df Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thank you, thank you, a _big_ thank you, folks!
I will add a line how to= parse the XFree86 Modeline to the wiki,
the link is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik= i/XFree86_Modeline

Now it works great with my Dell DELL U2412Mb monitor and NVIDIA Corpora= tion NV44 [GeForce 6200 LE] graphics card.


Tears in my eyes... y= ou helped me sooooo much!
Have a great first day of Spring (at least her= e in Northern hemisphere :-)

++pac




> Here's the process I used = to moderate success:
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/adding_a_monitor_= to_vgadb/

Worked with a Syncmaster 240T, which was 1920x1200.

john


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