RE: [9fans] [absolute newbie] Problems with Riva TNT

RE: [9fans] [absolute newbie] Problems with Riva TNT

[cej]

when you now boot from cd and select "Try out Plan 9 from CD" (or like)
do you get into graphics regime, or not? Did you login as 'glenda' for the first time?
(I'm eternal 9-newbie, so I just guess...)

cross fingers, and don't give up!
++pac.



-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Hunt [mailto:0102806h@student.gla.ac.uk] 
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 12:06 PM
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] [absolute newbie] Problems with Riva TNT


I am having the same problems as someone else had in the thread [9fans] Nvidia TNT troubles. But, I only just started using plan 9 right now, so I have absolutely no idea what I am doing :(.

I installed directly from cd, without using a boot floppy, the only thing that I had to do was change the boot path. The graphical interface loaded fine when I was doing the install, but when I first boot the system and login I get this:

aux/vga: nvidia: segattach nvidiammio, size 16777216: bad arg in system

(that was typed in by hand, so might not be exact)

Is there a way that I can get this working without recompiling the kernel, since I have no idea how to do that yet.

Or, if that part is easy, where do I get the latest vganvidia from?

I can't even get the text editor to load, is this because of the above problem?

I will be grateful for any assistance you can give me

Richard Hunt

My computer:

plan9 installed on /dev/hda3, booting with lilo    (no problems with
this)
linux installed on /dev/hda[56]
broken windows install on /dev/hda1 (I think the plan9 install was responsible for breaking this - or at least my use of the plan 9 installer :)

AMD K6/2 400
64Mb ram
NVIDIA Riva TNT 16Mb  (It's a creative graphics blaster)
Aureal vortex sound card (I assume there will be no support for this?) 16x generic dvd drive 3.5" floppy drive 56k generic modem - but I have no internet connection, so I can't do any direct installs from the internet. I do have access to the internet and cd burners on university computers, however.

I have five years experience with linux, including setting up kernels etc, if this will be any use to me.


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Re: [9fans] [absolute newbie] Problems with Riva TNT

[Russ Cox]

Andrey says that the nvidia driver is up-to-date,
so try downloading a fresh Plan 9 CD and see if your
problem goes away.  We'd stopped building the CDs
nightly when we switched file servers, due to a
few configuration errors.

Also, the separate sources snapshot is no more.
Now the installation CD _is_ the sources snapshot.

Russ

Re: [9fans] [absolute newbie] Problems with Riva TNT

[mirtchov]

sadly the only way you can get a new kernel in requires either to use
'ed' (the standard editor when rio isn't running) or boot from the
disk and work a bit of magic to get a new kernel from
sources.cs.bell-labs...

this really should've been fixed in the default installation.  the
change appears to be there (> 0x20 -> >= 0x20) but depending on which
kernel you're booting you may be using sources as far back as Dec
15th, 2002.

email me privately and I'll walk you through building a new kernel
without using rio..

i'll probably add it to the wiki too.

andrey

[9fans] [absolute newbie] Problems with Riva TNT

[Richard Hunt]

I am having the same problems as someone else had in the thread
[9fans] Nvidia TNT troubles. But, I only just started using plan 9
right now, so I have absolutely no idea what I am doing :(.

I installed directly from cd, without using a boot floppy, the only
thing that I had to do was change the boot path. The graphical
interface loaded fine when I was doing the install, but when I first
boot the system and login I get this:

aux/vga: nvidia: segattach nvidiammio, size 16777216: bad arg in
system

(that was typed in by hand, so might not be exact)

Is there a way that I can get this working without recompiling the
kernel, since I have no idea how to do that yet.

Or, if that part is easy, where do I get the latest vganvidia from?

I can't even get the text editor to load, is this because of the above
problem?

I will be grateful for any assistance you can give me

Richard Hunt

My computer:

plan9 installed on /dev/hda3, booting with lilo    (no problems with
this)
linux installed on /dev/hda[56]
broken windows install on /dev/hda1 (I think the plan9 install was
responsible for breaking this - or at least my use of the plan 9
installer :)

AMD K6/2 400
64Mb ram
NVIDIA Riva TNT 16Mb  (It's a creative graphics blaster)
Aureal vortex sound card (I assume there will be no support for this?)
16x generic dvd drive
3.5" floppy drive
56k generic modem - but I have no internet connection, so I can't do
any direct installs from the internet. I do have access to the
internet and cd burners on university computers, however.

I have five years experience with linux, including setting up kernels
etc, if this will be any use to me.