From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicholas Waples To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Which nVidia cards? In-Reply-To: <15086.47983.774680.194728@nido.hilbert.space> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 12:41:40 +1000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 98de659c-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Tue, 1 May 2001 paurea@dei.inf.uc3m.es wrote: > Douglas A. Gwyn writes: > > From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" > > Subject: [9fans] Which nVidia cards? > > Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 08:38:20 GMT > > > > Is there support for nVidia display controllers yet in the > > Plan 9 distribution (including updates)? AGP or PCI? > > Supposing I wanted to build a new Plan 9 platform using the > > best supported card, which one(s) should I get? Thanks.. > > Look at the archives for the drivers. I dont think they have > been included in the official release. Nicholas Waples posted them > at http://members.optusnet.com.au/~nwaples/ > I also aplied a patch for cursor management by jmk. Its all included in the latest update now, except you still need to add to /sys/src/9/pc/pc[disk|flop] vganvidia +cur if you want it included in the kernel. It works fine for my TNT, and a quick test on a Geforce2 MX it appeared to work. Hopefully it should work on cards from TNT -> Geforce2. Note the driver doesnt do hw acceleration, so if you want a usable > 8bpp display then an S3 (Virge or Savage 4) or Mach64 based card would be better. Nick.