From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 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. References: In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <87ptk3g8zc.fsf@rgristroph-austin.ath.cx> User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 11:06:31 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: ff6bdc0c-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >>>>> "Ram'on" == Ram'on Garc'ia Fern'andez 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