Re: [9fans] PowerPC, usb, modem, etc.

[andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>]

> Concerning plan9.ini: I want to experiment with my vga settings,
> but if I get them wrong, the monitor just displays something
> like "hsync out of range." Is there any way that I can drop
> into terminal mode at that point in order to edit plan9.ini
> and reboot. Will ^t^tr halt the filesystem? If there is no
> way to get a terminal prompt, I could boot another OS and
> edit plan9.ini from there.
>

you actually have rio running on the system, but you just can't see it.

there are several things you can do:

	- ssh to the system (if it's a cpu server at least)
	- get a serial console running
	- cpu to the system from a remote machine

i used to (pretty sure other people did too) just start X on the same
monitor and get the hsync/vsync values from xvidtune. once set i've never
had to change them.

i see now that one of those still remains in /lib/vgadb --

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andrey