From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Are nvidia-cards working with plan9? Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:58:17 +0100 From: nigel@9fs.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-gjgkyoeyozbhdcqrayqzypxccr" Message-Id: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0add7288-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-gjgkyoeyozbhdcqrayqzypxccr Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In general, the more 3D oriented, and state-of-the-art, the less likely the card is to be supported. This is partially a function of the proprietary nature of 'gamers' cards, and partially the unlikelihood that researchers in Plan 9 have found the need to support such cards. If you read the hardware compatibility specs, you will see what is supported in the current release. The usual line is 'ATi mach64 based cards are OK'. Of course, if you see it mentioned in /lib/vgadb then this is encouraging. Support is improving, though. If you check the archives, you will see that a Voodoo 3 and S3 Savage drivers have been done, but not yet released. Matrox G200/G400 may not be far away. On the flip side, no Ati 128 bit cards are supported. Another important rule of thumb is 'does XFree86 support it'. This is an indication as to whether the technical documentation needed to write a driver is available. At one time certainly, Nvidia were difficult. --upas-gjgkyoeyozbhdcqrayqzypxccr Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from tele-punt-22.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.7]) by cpu; Thu Sep 21 09:49:36 BST 2000 Received: from punt-2.mail.demon.net by mailstore for ngr@cotswold.demon.co.uk id 969526044:20:28781:5; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 08:47:24 GMT Received: from hearno.cyberware.co.uk ([194.74.221.2]) by punt-2.mail.demon.net id aa2112280; 21 Sep 2000 8:47 GMT Received: from mail (postfix@psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.4.6]) by hearno.cyberware.co.uk (8.9.1b+Sun/8.7.2) with ESMTP id JAA25472 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:46:22 +0100 (BST) Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (unknown [130.203.8.6]) by mail (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id AAE8B199EC; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 04:47:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mercury.bath.ac.uk (mercury.bath.ac.uk [138.38.32.81]) by mail (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id B1E35199DD for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 04:46:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from news by mercury.bath.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 13c1mU-0002l3-00 for 9fans@cse.psu.edu; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:32:34 +0100 Received: from GATEWAY by bath.ac.uk with netnews for 9fans@cse.psu.edu (9fans@cse.psu.edu) To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 08:27:49 GMT From: Henri Philipps Message-ID: <7l5eq8.fn.ln@127.0.0.1> Organization: University of Bath Computing Services, UK Subject: [9fans] Are nvidia-cards working with plan9? Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta4 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the O/S Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> Hi, are graphic-boards with nvidia chipset working with plan9? I have a GeForce2 and couldnt find a way to make it work by changing the vgadb file. Can anyone give me a hint in this direction? Where is the best place to find an answer to this kind of questions? Thanks, Henri --upas-gjgkyoeyozbhdcqrayqzypxccr--