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From: "Anselm R. Garbe" <garbeam@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] New to Plan 9, boot and install on Compaq AP550?
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:34:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <89d1e7b8050812093433ba07ec@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003f01c59f5a$74700aa0$e000a8c0@OBLIVIONDT>

On 8/12/05, Ezequiel Reyes <ezequiel.reyes@newhotel.co.cu> wrote:
> I downloaded the vesa-enabled iso image, and it works well everywhere I have
> tested it, being various desktop machines and my dell laptop with nvidia
> card. Of course, I can only have a configuration of 1024x768x16 max (My
> laptop card allows 1600x1200x32 max). I can use and install plan 9 from the
> vesa iso with no video problems, but I would like to know if the iso is and
> will be mantained in sync with the latest plan 9 changes so that I know I
> could download it in the future and use an up to date system. I have a very
> slow internet conection, I can only download the iso from time to time. Are
> there plans to insert the vesa driver in the official iso? Or better, plans

Yeah, please include the vesa driver asap into the official ISO. Many
interested people won't drop their attempts to get in touch with rio
after booting into text mode and nothing works...
Btw. including the radeon driver, which seems to be not available at
the moment, could also be very helpful.

Regards,
-- 
  Anselm R. Garbe  ><><  www.ebrag.de  ><><  GPG key: 0D73F361


  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-12 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-12 14:00 Unix
2005-08-12 15:31 ` Christoph Lohmann
2005-08-12 16:25   ` Ezequiel Reyes
2005-08-12 16:34     ` Anselm R. Garbe [this message]
2005-08-12 16:48       ` Russ Cox
2005-08-12 16:55         ` Anselm R. Garbe
2005-08-12 16:47     ` Christoph Lohmann
2005-08-12 17:06       ` Ezequiel Reyes
2005-08-12 15:59 ` Anselm R. Garbe

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