From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Nvidia Geforce card From: nigel@9fs.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-lkdcufgemafwpoefwbtelioyop" Message-Id: Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 10:06:11 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 22d96068-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-lkdcufgemafwpoefwbtelioyop Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Labs web pages indicate a basic hardware compatibility. If you check the archives, then more information is available. In the most recent update, Voodoo was added. It was developed on a 3000, but should work with others. Plan 9 so far has not made use of 3D, so good 2D performance is all that matters. This, plus the relative difficulty of getting specifications for the market leading 3D cards makes keeping up with current hardware tricky. Currently the big holes are ATi >= 128 bits: documentation is easy to get, but no-one with the skills/hardware/motivation has stood up to be counted yet Nvidia: known to be hard to get documentation Matrox G series: reasonable documentation can be got. I have got a G400 working at 8 bits depth, but time is short As for on-board, if you mean SIS, then no. Sparcstation 5. Not immediately; the latest release is only tested on x86. I have one lying in the corner of the room as well. I would download the 3rd edition manuals from the website and read them. There are a _lot_ of changes. Put it this way, I don't read the old manuals, pretty though they are. Nigel --upas-lkdcufgemafwpoefwbtelioyop Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by cpu; Tue Nov 7 09:34:24 GMT 2000 Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.4.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id F3826199E1; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 04:34:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from mercury.bath.ac.uk (mercury.bath.ac.uk [138.38.32.81]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id ACBA7199D5 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 04:33:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from news by mercury.bath.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 13t53u-0003aG-00 for 9fans@cse.psu.edu; Tue, 07 Nov 2000 09:29:02 +0000 Received: from GATEWAY by bath.ac.uk with netnews for 9fans@cse.psu.edu (9fans@cse.psu.edu) To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: James Message-ID: Organization: @Home Network References: Subject: Re: [9fans] Nvidia Geforce card Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0rc1 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the O/S Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 09:27:52 GMT Whats a good card then? Voodoo?? or will onboard (motherboard) video work? Or is there away to install it in console mode only. I also got my hands on Plan 9 manual today (old one) from work, pretty wild. :-) I work at lucent, I just got my hands on a Sparcstation 5. Plan 9 should work on that with no problems? wrote in message news:E13sj0V-000JY0-0X@anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net... > Sorry, no Nvidia Geforce (or any other Nvidia) support. > > --upas-lkdcufgemafwpoefwbtelioyop--