From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:29:40 +0200 Message-ID: From: Alexander Kapshuk To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f46d0442863e9fa19204b252cb8b Subject: Re: [9fans] Supported_PC_hardware list Topicbox-Message-UUID: 43178aea-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --f46d0442863e9fa19204b252cb8b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 i was wondering if the Supported_PC_hardware list found here: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Supported_PC_hardware/index.html, was fairly up-to-date? i am particularly interested in the VGA section thanks. --f46d0442863e9fa19204b252cb8b Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
i was wondering if the=A0Supported_PC_hardware list found here:http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Supported_PC_hardware/index.html= , was fairly up-to-date?
i am particularly interested in the VGA section
thanks.

--f46d0442863e9fa19204b252cb8b-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:56:31 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <42960ac33eda58cdf08674d54ecc320c@chula.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Supported_PC_hardware list Topicbox-Message-UUID: 43336ba2-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue Nov 22 08:30:20 EST 2011, alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com wrote: > i was wondering if the Supported_PC_hardware list found here: > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Supported_PC_hardware/index.html, was > fairly up-to-date? > i am particularly interested in the VGA section > thanks. the vga section is modest. i rarely see vga failures. i'm also using cinap's real mode emulation to make vesa more robust. - erik From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <42960ac33eda58cdf08674d54ecc320c@chula.quanstro.net> References: <42960ac33eda58cdf08674d54ecc320c@chula.quanstro.net> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:07:33 +0100 Message-ID: From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gabriel_D=EDaz_L=F3pez_de_la_llave?= To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Supported_PC_hardware list Topicbox-Message-UUID: 433a75aa-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hello I=B4m unable to get more than 8bits color depth with an ATI 5750. I can do 1280x1024x8. Linux vesa driver can do full HD with 16bit colors iirc. slds. gabi 2011/11/22 erik quanstrom : > On Tue Nov 22 08:30:20 EST 2011, alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com wrote: > >> i was wondering if the Supported_PC_hardware list found here: >> http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Supported_PC_hardware/index.html, = was >> fairly up-to-date? >> i am particularly interestedH in the VGA section >> thanks. > > the vga section is modest. =A0i rarely see vga failures. =A0i'm > also using cinap's real mode emulation to make vesa > more robust. > > - erik > > From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:13:42 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <990591428398ef6e6e825aad261761ea@brasstown.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: References: <42960ac33eda58cdf08674d54ecc320c@chula.quanstro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Supported_PC_hardware list Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4340b5dc-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue Nov 22 09:08:06 EST 2011, gdiazlo@gmail.com wrote: > Hello > > I´m unable to get more than 8bits color depth with an ATI 5750. I can > do 1280x1024x8. Linux vesa driver can do full HD with 16bit colors > iirc. > > slds. i've had 1600x1200x^(16 32) working here in the last two days on an ati 5450 and 4290 (rs880) ymmv. - erik From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <990591428398ef6e6e825aad261761ea@brasstown.quanstro.net> References: <42960ac33eda58cdf08674d54ecc320c@chula.quanstro.net> <990591428398ef6e6e825aad261761ea@brasstown.quanstro.net> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:16:27 +0100 Message-ID: From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gabriel_D=EDaz_L=F3pez_de_la_llave?= To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Supported_PC_hardware list Topicbox-Message-UUID: 434aae20-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 hello I have two cards plugged, could be that related to the failures i=B4m seeing? (either weird pictures and colors or invalid mode errors). I=B4ll give it another try. gabi 2011/11/22 erik quanstrom : > On Tue Nov 22 09:08:06 EST 2011, gdiazlo@gmail.com wrote: >> Hello >> >> I=B4m unable to get more than 8bits color depth with an ATI 5750. I can >> do 1280x1024x8. Linux vesa driver can do full HD with 16bit colors >> iirc. >> >> slds. > > i've had 1600x1200x^(16 32) working here in the last two days on an > ati 5450 and 4290 (rs880) ymmv. > > - erik > > From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:24:51 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: <42960ac33eda58cdf08674d54ecc320c@chula.quanstro.net> <990591428398ef6e6e825aad261761ea@brasstown.quanstro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Supported_PC_hardware list Topicbox-Message-UUID: 435ac3a0-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue Nov 22 10:17:10 EST 2011, gdiazlo@gmail.com wrote: > hello > > I have two cards plugged, could be that related to the failures i´m > seeing? (either weird pictures and colors or invalid mode errors). yes, aux/vga and the kernel don't really support multiple video cards. i'm seeing some funnies with the box i'm testing, even though bios has taken pains to turn the onboard chipset off. - erik From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4ECBFE63.6060900@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:56:19 +0200 From: Alexander Kapshuk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20111110 Icedove/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@9fans.net References: <42960ac33eda58cdf08674d54ecc320c@chula.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: <42960ac33eda58cdf08674d54ecc320c@chula.quanstro.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Supported_PC_hardware list Topicbox-Message-UUID: 439d8190-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 11/22/2011 03:56 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Tue Nov 22 08:30:20 EST 2011, alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com wrote: > > >> i was wondering if the Supported_PC_hardware list found here: >> http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Supported_PC_hardware/index.html, was >> fairly up-to-date? >> i am particularly interested in the VGA section >> thanks. >> > the vga section is modest. i rarely see vga failures. i'm > also using cinap's real mode emulation to make vesa > more robust. > > - erik > > thanks to everyone for your input. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1251.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 From: "Federico G. Benavento" In-Reply-To: <4ECBFE63.6060900@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:40:12 -0300 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <12CDD94B-D6DC-448E-AAA4-3FDEE9E4CC50@gmail.com> References: <42960ac33eda58cdf08674d54ecc320c@chula.quanstro.net> <4ECBFE63.6060900@gmail.com> To: Alexander Kapshuk Cc: 9fans@9fans.net Subject: Re: [9fans] Supported_PC_hardware list Topicbox-Message-UUID: 43a2f4ae-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 the intels of the day 915/945/etc have worked well for me the resolution you get is the one that the device supports in vesa mode On Nov 22, 2011, at 4:56 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On 11/22/2011 03:56 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> On Tue Nov 22 08:30:20 EST 2011, alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com wrote: >>=20 >> =20 >>> i was wondering if the Supported_PC_hardware list found here: >>> = http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Supported_PC_hardware/index.html, = was >>> fairly up-to-date? >>> i am particularly interested in the VGA section >>> thanks. >>> =20 >> the vga section is modest. i rarely see vga failures. i'm >> also using cinap's real mode emulation to make vesa >> more robust. >>=20 >> - erik >>=20 >> =20 > thanks to everyone for your input. >=20 >=20