Re: [9fans] [RQ]: plan9 native 1920x1200 VGA recommendation

[John Floren <john@jfloren.net>]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Andy Spencer <andy753421@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2013-03-18 12:09, Peter A. Cejchan wrote:
>> could anyone recommend (personal experience would be nice) a VGA card
>> that can support 1920x1200 mode on native Plan 9 from Bell Labs (from
>> Bell Labs ;-) ?
>
> I used to use a Dell M70 laptop with a 1920x1200 display. It had an
> "Nvidia Quadro FX Go 1400" card which worked just fine with Plan 9.
>
> It's been years since I used it, but I remember I had to boot the laptop
> in Linux and dump the modeline out of X somehow. I don't remember the
> specifics on how to do that, but then I just pasted it into vgadb and
> set the options in plan9.ini and everything worked great.
>
> I doubt it will help anyone, but here are the settings I used:
>
> plan9.ini:
>   | monitor=dellm70
>   | vgasize=1920x1200x32
>
> vgadb:
>   | dellm70=1920x1200x32
>   |     clock=162
>   |     shb=2020 ehb=2108 ht=2160
>   |     vrs=1201 vre=1204 vt=1250
>   |     hsync=+ vsync=+
>

Here's the process I used to moderate success:
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/adding_a_monitor_to_vgadb/

Worked with a Syncmaster 240T, which was 1920x1200.

john