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From: Chris Silva <ack@xmission.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] ati mach switch vga problem
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 13:15:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D9656AE0-5BD9-11D7-9281-0030659642C4@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c67a33f7a58f4309e6dbde9e27ccf7a4@plan9.bell-labs.com>

I'm able to boot up fine with plan9 boot disks. So, I was wondering if 
there were vga settings I could fool around with? since I know that the 
65mhz  generic monitor with 600x800 16bit settings of the boot disk 
works.

On Friday, March 21, 2003, at 12:09 PM, Russ Cox wrote:

>> Is there anyway to fix things?
>
> go back to the xpert98.  or buy an nvidia card.
> seriously.  i hate the mach64 series.
> they're awful to program.
>
> but if you're hell-bent on using it...
>
> let's assume you can boot without vga
> and compile a kernel.  (to boot without
> vga log in as none during the boot sequence.)
>
> there is a call:
>
> 	init_overlayclock(scr);
>
> in /sys/src/9/pc/vgamach64xx.c.
> comment it out.  i think that will
> make your problem go away.
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-21 20:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-21  0:02 Chris Silva
2003-03-21 19:09 ` Russ Cox
2003-03-21 20:15   ` Chris Silva [this message]
2003-03-21 20:23     ` Russ Cox

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