From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] 16:9 display and freeze
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:07:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7430ebb32d753b51abc765650a489b40@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121014130956.GA563@polynum.com>
> Nothing but the monitor has changed. The graphic card has not
> changed, it is still a ATI Technologies Radeon 9200SE. My configuration
> for Plan9 has not changed either for the video stuff (whether
> 800x600 or 1024x768, I will have to check; but the monitor "auto
> adapts" so some discrepancy between what the monitor and the card
> agree to use and the size of the software buffer is not impossible).
>
> When testing a new get_mk_install.rc and compilation for kerTeX,
> a couple of seconds after switching to scroll mode (for kerTeX
> compilation) under Plan9 (native), the machine froze hard. I had
> to cold reboot, since simply rebooting, the BIOS had problems:
> something has been trashed.
>
> Had anyone already encountered such behavior? Hints about the
> "whodunit"? And a cure?
no. i used a 16:9 monitor for a short while. no ill effects. other than
an ugly picture.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-17 0:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-14 13:09 tlaronde
2012-10-17 0:07 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2012-10-17 4:58 ` Matthew Veety
2012-10-17 10:50 ` tlaronde
2012-10-17 10:53 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-17 11:02 ` tlaronde
2012-10-23 11:59 ` tlaronde
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