From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Christian Smith <csmith@micromuse.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 in VMware?
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 15:13:17 +0000
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Grr, all plan9 needs is a VESA 2.0 video driver. I know someone has talked
about doing this (can't remember the reference,) and I intend to have a go
myself once I've got plan9 up and running. Then we can dump all this
reliance on bios signatures etc.

I have to say, the way plan9 handles this stuff is surprisingly archaic!

Christian (frustrated at not being able to use dumb frame buffers!)

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Jim Niemira wrote:

>Ish Rattan wrote:
>> On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Jim Niemira wrote:
>> > I can run Plan9 in VMware, but cannot get the video running correctly.
>> > Can it be done?  I've got:
>> >
>> > monitor=multisync75
>> > vgasize=800x600x8
>> >
>> > in my plan9.ini file (monitor=vga and 640x480 gives the same results),
>> > and:
>> >
>> > ctlr
>> >     0xC002D="PhoenixView(tm) VGA-Compatible BIOS Version"
>> >     link=vga
>> >     hwgc=s3hwgc
>> >     ctlr=trio64
>> >     link=ibm8514
>>
>> Under Vmware the actual hardware is not available. You have to use the
>> the hardware emulated.. No idea about graphics crad but ether is NE2001
>> (AMD Lance)
>
>
>I know this; the gfx card is that text line in the ctlr stanza, which I
>pulled out of vgainfo.txt.  But it looks like the refresh rate is off (if
>there is such a thing for vmware).  I've tried lots of different settings;
>has anyone got one that works?  Thanx!
>
>jim
>

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