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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:07:31 -0400
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 16:9 display and freeze
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> 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