Re: [9fans] Re: rio

[ISHWAR RATTAN <rattan@cps.cmich.edu>]

Sometibe back there was a suggestion to switch off hardware accel
in vga device and start rio, do not remember the details, search
old posts..

-ishwar

On Wed, 3 May 2006, Sha0lin wrote:

> Federico G. Benavento writes: 
>>> I have installed a plan9 in a linux-vmware,
>>> now when i boot the system, rio doesn't work: 
>>> rio: can't open display: initdisplay: /dev/draw/new no frame buffer 
>>> draw directory doesn't exist, how can i generate it? 
>> 
>> update /sys/src/9/pc/vgavmware.c and /sys/src/cmd/aux/vga/vmware.c
>> to support newer vmware versions.
>> The last time I used vmware worked fine, but it was 4.5. 
>> or you could use qemu instead. 
>> Federico G. Benavento 
>
> Under vmware:
> during installation the graphic mode works ok,
> when i use live cd graphic mode works but not ok,
> when i have installed the plan9, rio doesn't start, and i have to work in the 
> text mode shell. 
> regards 
>