From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andrey mirtchovski To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] PowerPC, usb, modem, etc. In-Reply-To: <3EF73CF4.6070001@acm.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 11:59:49 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d7e9f88a-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > 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 -- # from aam396@mail.usask.ca andrey