Re: [9fans] New to Plan 9, boot and install on Compaq AP550?

["Anselm R. Garbe" <garbeam@gmail.com>]

On 8/12/05, Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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...
> 
> It will be done as soon as possible, but not for a few months.
> In the fall I am going to slowly merge in the changes in
> /n/sources/contrib/rsc, one by one, with sufficient testing
> periods inbetween to isolate problems.  Things beside vesa
> are different in that code, and some of those things break
> existing card support.

Thx

> > Btw. including the radeon driver, which seems to be not available at
> > the moment, could also be very helpful.
> 
> Jmk has a Radeon card (either a 9200 or 9600) with DVI
> output.  If someone sends him a Radeon driver that works
> on that card, then it will go into the distribution.  Until then,
> it won't.  That's been the story for probably a year now
> but no one has done it.  Are you volunteering?

I'd like to, but I'm not experienced in graphics adaptor drivers yet -
and I only own a Radeon 7500 card, which is known to work with the
driver which already existed somewhere.

Regards,
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