Re: [9fans] More Mach64 Problems

[Cameron Morland <cjmorlan@uwaterloo.ca>]

La 2001-11-19, Russ Cox skribis:

> There's some code in /sys/src/cmd/aux/vga/mach64xx.c that handles
> sniffing the card and trying to get the timings set right, but it
> appears to fail on some cards, including apparently yours.
> If you're game, I can tell you how to tweak the registers and
> you can sit there poking bits until it works, but it's really an
> open-ended process: sometimes you get it, sometimes you don't.
> It will help a lot if you have graphics working on this system in
> some other operating system that lets you poke at the VGA card,
> to read out a working register dump.  Such systems include Windows 9x,
> Linux, and FreeBSD but not Windows NT or 2000.

I have Debian installed on the box. Just tell me what to do and I'll do
it. This box is completely junk, so it doesn't matter if it's out of
service for a long time.

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