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

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

[Peter A. Cejchan]

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Hi, 9friends,

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 ;-)
?

Yes, I've read the wiki but it seems a bit outdated (?). Maybe not, I can't
tell.
Unfortunately, I am 50+ and my vision deteriorates rapidly :-(((

Any help much appreciated.
PS: >8bit depth would be nice, too ;-)

Thanks,
++pac

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

[Sergey Zhilkin]

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Hello !

I have i810 (very old celeron based terminal), it works with 1600x1200
mode. But it's 9legacy.


2013/3/18 Peter A. Cejchan <tyapca7@gmail.com>

> Hi, 9friends,
>
> 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 ;-)
> ?
>
> Yes, I've read the wiki but it seems a bit outdated (?). Maybe not, I
> can't tell.
> Unfortunately, I am 50+ and my vision deteriorates rapidly :-(((
>
> Any help much appreciated.
> PS: >8bit depth would be nice, too ;-)
>
> Thanks,
> ++pac
>
>
>


-- 
С наилучшими пожеланиями
Жилкин Сергей
With best regards
Zhilkin Sergey

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

[erik quanstrom]

> Hi, 9friends,
>
> 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've had good luck with the supermicro x7sla motherboard,
which supports 1600x1200x16, and i use an ancient ECS IC890GXM-A
with this video device @ 1600x1200x16

1.5.0:	vid  03.00.00 1002/9714  10 0:d0000008 268435456 1:0000b001 256 2:fddf0000 65536 5:fdc00000 1048576
	Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI 	RS880 [Radeon HD 4290]

there are also 1920x1440 modes available, but my monitor does support
them.

i'm running the atom nix kernel now, but the atom pc and pcpae
kernels work as well.

by the way, i can never remember motherboard models, so dmi(8)
http://www.quanstro.net/magic/man2html/8/dmi
is a big help.

- erik

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

[Steve Simon]

> 1920x1200 mode on native Plan 9

Not quite there but I use a Dell 2007fp MONITOR at work at 1600x1200x16 driven from
an NVida GeForece MX-200. Sadly this is has a VGA rather than DVI connector
so its a bit soft. I keep it because I like the fact that the MX-200 is
accelerated which is worth having (IMHO).

-Steve

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

[erik quanstrom]

On Mon Mar 18 16:06:25 EDT 2013, steve@quintile.net wrote:
> > 1920x1200 mode on native Plan 9
>
> Not quite there but I use a Dell 2007fp MONITOR at work at 1600x1200x16 driven from
> an NVida GeForece MX-200. Sadly this is has a VGA rather than DVI connector
> so its a bit soft. I keep it because I like the fact that the MX-200 is
> accelerated which is worth having (IMHO).

hmmm.  that must be influenced by the construction of the card.
i have a very good image at 1600x1200x16 with the same monitor
using vesa on a variety of machines.  even through a kvm it looks
fine.

- erik

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

[Steve Simon]

I was always happy with it but when experimenting with another
machine (using the vesa driver) connected to the DVI input of
the monitor - I was shocked by how much better it looked.

-Steve

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

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

On 2013-03-18, at 4:09 AM, 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 ;-)

My ancient Via Epia EK-10000G mini-ITX motherboard does 1920x1080x(24 or 32? I forget, and can't check right this second) out of the on-board VGA via the Chrome VESA BIOS.  That machine will be my favourite Plan 9 terminal until the end of time, I suspect ...

--lyndon

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

[Andy Spencer]

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=+

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

[John Floren]

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

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

[Bakul Shah]

On Mar 18, 2013, at 6:43 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:

> 
> On 2013-03-18, at 4:09 AM, 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 ;-)
> 
> My ancient Via Epia EK-10000G mini-ITX motherboard does 1920x1080x(24 or 32? I forget, and can't check right this second) out of the on-board VGA via the Chrome VESA BIOS.  That machine will be my favourite Plan 9 terminal until the end of time, I suspect ...

An HDMI display + a RaspberryPi can make a decent terminal. No h/w acceleration yet either with x11/Linux or 9pi but its speed is good enough for me. an openVG version of p9p /dev/draw would speed things up.... Porting their open source openVG user land code to 9pi is a much bigger task (too many Linux dependencies).

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

[Peter A. Cejchan]

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Thank you, thank you, a _big_ thank you, folks!
I will add a line how to parse the XFree86 Modeline to the wiki,
the link is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFree86_Modeline

Now it works great with my Dell DELL U2412Mb monitor and NVIDIA Corporation
NV44 [GeForce 6200 LE] graphics card.


Tears in my eyes... you helped me sooooo much!
Have a great first day of Spring (at least here in Northern hemisphere :-)

++pac



> 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
>
>

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