[9fans] more hardware

[9fans] more hardware

[Eric Smith]

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Hi,

I've been following your discussions here for years and have tried plan 9
several times on several different machines since early 2000 but
evidently have never been lucky enough to own one with supported graphics
hardware.  It always complains about vga and says I can go ahead and run a
non-graphics based instance if I want.

I am thinking that perhaps I am just a loser because I see here
http://cm.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Supported_PC_hardware/index.html that
there are quite a few cards supported.

Yet my "primary" machine has an intel 845G chipset which I do not see on
that list.

Is there anything I can do?

Regards,
Eric (evidently The Supremely Stupid)

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Re: [9fans] more hardware

[andrey mirtchovski]

most vga cards are now supported with the new vesa driver. in fact,
graphics are now better supported than network cards (speaking from
experience -- i have a laptop here with beautiful graphics and no
network :)

download a recent CD and try again. specify 'vesa' as the monitor type
when you install and you'll be there :)

andrey

Re: [9fans] more hardware

[Eric Smith]

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Andrey,

This is the best news I've had in quite some time!  I'll do it.

Thank you so much,
Eric

On 1/28/06, andrey mirtchovski <mirtchovski@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> most vga cards are now supported with the new vesa driver. in fact,
> graphics are now better supported than network cards (speaking from
> experience -- i have a laptop here with beautiful graphics and no
> network :)
>
> download a recent CD and try again. specify 'vesa' as the monitor type
> when you install and you'll be there :)
>
> andrey
>

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Re: [9fans] more hardware

[Eric Smith]

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"I'm in!"

Thanks so much,
Eric

On 1/28/06, andrey mirtchovski <mirtchovski@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> most vga cards are now supported with the new vesa driver. in fact,
> graphics are now better supported than network cards (speaking from
> experience -- i have a laptop here with beautiful graphics and no
> network :)
>
> download a recent CD and try again. specify 'vesa' as the monitor type
> when you install and you'll be there :)
>
> andrey
>

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