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).=