[9fans] plan9 in VPC on titanium powerbook.

[9fans] plan9 in VPC on titanium powerbook.

[Andrew Garman]

I'm in the process of setting up plan9 in VPC.  It's installed, but I'm
having trouble adjusting to plan9, and don't know how to edit /lib/vgadb.

I'm looking through documents trying to understand how everything works,
and will likely figure it out before long, but I'll graciously accept
any hints or suggestions.

Thanks,


Andrew Garman

Re: [9fans] plan9 in VPC on titanium powerbook.

[John C Lamoreaux]

Hi all,

There have been a few inquiries, both on and off list, about how to get
Plan9 to run on VirtualPC 5.0 for Macintosh. It's really not too hard.
Here are the steps, as best I remember:

1. Add the following line to vgadb on your boot floppy, in the section with
ids for S3 Trio video cards:

0xC0010="DEO B"

2. This should allow you to bring up the installation program, which runs
as normal.

3. Having completed installation, rebooted, and gotten dumped into an rc
shell, in /lib/vgadb add the video card id in the same place and then add
the following lines if you want to run at 1152x768.

(after the list of includes)
include = 1152x768
	clock=65
	shb=1168 ehb=1384 ht=1480
	vrs=771 vre=777 vt=806
	hysync=- vsync=-

(after the list of entries for multisync monitors)
multisync = 1152x768
	include 1152x768

4. In /n/9fat/plan9.ini, change vgasize=1152x768x8

5. Reboot and all should be well.

I have not yet tried to get networking up, that will have to wait until I
finish grading final exams and papers.

Best,

John Lamoreaux
Department of Religion
Southern Methodist University