From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <82c890d00608040301r3c01380as359f7cdf15d1a121@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 12:01:50 +0200 From: "Gabriel Diaz" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] IBM/Lenovo Z60m and ATI Radeon Mobility In-Reply-To: <3d0bbd780608040255j2e8a3504g8f57a82b592cc62c@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_63178_3523149.1154685710756" References: <3d0bbd780608040049t4eb1c87i8f10302103954efc@mail.gmail.com> <82c890d00608040055g1506b9ddmfbe518723c58c77a@mail.gmail.com> <3d0bbd780608040255j2e8a3504g8f57a82b592cc62c@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 95f0c296-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ------=_Part_63178_3523149.1154685710756 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hello Bad luck then, it worked on the ATI's i tried (7500 and X300 iirc) There was an ATI driver but i think it was not updated to work with the newer ATI X models. gabi On 8/4/06, Anssi Porttikivi wrote: > > No, "vesa" is not working as a monitor type for the CD installer. "No > frame buffer" results. > > And I don't find anything promising in the vgadb, to add a new id string. > > On 8/4/06, Gabriel Diaz wrote: > > Hello > > > > I think vesa driver should work with that card. > > Have you tried monitor=vesa during the boot process? > > > > I have a Z60t working fine, but it has an intel card. > > > > gabi > > > > > > > > On 8/4/06, Anssi Porttikivi wrote: > > > My IBM Thinkpad Z60m has "ATI Radeon Mobility". Any hints, if there > is a > > > way to modify vgadb to make the CD image boot to rio? Text mode works, > > > and I have learned to use ramfs, ed (ouch!) and bind to edit the > > > vgadb. > > > > > > > > ------=_Part_63178_3523149.1154685710756 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hello

Bad luck then, it worked on the ATI's i tried (7500 and X300 iirc)

There was an ATI driver but i think it was not updated to work with the newer ATI X models.

gabi

On 8/4/06, Anssi Porttikivi <porttikivi@gmail.com> wrote:
No, "vesa" is not working as a monitor type for the CD installer. "No
frame buffer" results.

And I don't find anything promising in the vgadb, to add a new id string.

On 8/4/06, Gabriel Diaz < gabidiaz@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I think vesa driver should work with that card.
> Have you tried monitor=vesa during the boot process?
>
> I have a Z60t working fine, but it has an intel card.
>
> gabi
>
>
>
>  On 8/4/06, Anssi Porttikivi <porttikivi@gmail.com> wrote:
> > My IBM Thinkpad Z60m has "ATI  Radeon Mobility". Any hints, if there is a
> > way to modify vgadb to make the CD image boot to rio? Text mode works,
> > and I have learned to use ramfs, ed (ouch!) and bind to edit the
> > vgadb.
> >
>
>

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