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From: rgr@sdf.lonestar.org (Rob Ristroph)
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Installation fails with NVIDIA card: aux/vga does not find the card.
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 11:06:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ptk3g8zc.fsf@rgristroph-austin.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bfgh5d$irl$1@thule.sim.ucm.es>

>>>>> "Ram'on" == Ram'on Garc'ia Fern'andez <ramon-news.no.spam@juguete.quim.ucm.es> writes:
Ramon>
Ramon> I downloaded a recent Plan9 distribution. I attempted to
Ramon> reinstall completely my Plan9 system. I found that the
Ramon> installation failed.
Ramon>
Ramon> aux/vga complained that it could not find my card in /lib/vgadb .
Ramon> The command pci lists my card with the correct Vendor ID for NVidia
Ramon> cards 0x10DE .
Ramon>
Ramon> So this must be a bug in a recent aux/vga.
Ramon>
Ramon> My card is a Riva TN2. I have already Plan9 installed with it,
Ramon> and it works perfectly with Rio.
Ramon>
Ramon> Ramon

I also have a Riva TNT which stopped being recognized after I did a
pull and recompiled my kernel sometime last month.

But the install floppy always recognized it and brought it up into rio
just fine; it was the stuff installed to the harddrive that failed.

I downloaded the experimental floppy and tried it out just now -- I
don't think it ever got to the part where it runs aux/vga:

1262958 => 744660|1113032+83740=1941432
entry: 80100020
cpu0: 401MHz AuthenticAMD AMD-K6_III (cpuid: AX 0x0591 DX 0x8021BF)
ELCR: 0A00
#l0: rtl8139: 100Mbps port 0xE800 irq 9: 00904703FA06
19313 free pages, 77252K bytes, 309252K swap
boot: can't connect to file server: '/bzroot' file does not exist
panic: boot process died: unknown
cpu0: exiting

Where there changes made to vga in May or early June ?  I think
something in Plan 9 changed in that period that made the nvidia not
work from a clean install.

--Rob



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-21 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-21 11:05 Ram'on Garc'ia Fern'andez
2003-07-21 15:09 ` David Presotto
2003-07-22  9:06   ` [9fans] Experimental floppy failed Ram'on Garc'ia Fern'andez
2003-07-21 16:06 ` Rob Ristroph [this message]
2003-07-21 16:33   ` [9fans] Installation fails with NVIDIA card: aux/vga does not find the card andrey mirtchovski
2003-07-21 17:09     ` Re[2]: " Martin Althoff
2003-07-21 17:44       ` Rob Ristroph
2003-07-21 23:32         ` Re[4]: " Martin Althoff
2003-07-22 16:24           ` Rob Ristroph
2003-07-22 18:05             ` Re[6]: " Martin Althoff
2003-07-22  9:30   ` David Presotto
2003-07-22  9:40     ` David Presotto

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