Re: [9fans] no rio ?

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

for starters you may want to boot from the cd and copy the bootdisk from it
onto the 9fat partition; edit plan9.ini there to boot from sdC0!9fat!9pcdisk
and you'll have vga running. at least you won't have to use 'ed' to edit
files :)

the things to check are vgadb (did/vid pair for the video card should be
there -- use the 'pci' command to see the did/vid pair that your hardware
thinks it has), make sure your vga card type is defined in the configuration
file for the kernel -- compile a new kernel and see if that'll work..

andrey

On 6 Jul 2003, Rob Ristroph wrote:

>
> I downloaded the latest plan9.iso.bz2 from the web, and when I
> installed it everything went ok, except that after rebooting I got
> only the term% prompt and no graphical mode.  I have installed Plan9
> on this hardware several times (earlier versions from a week or more
> ago).  Also the floppy install had no problems bringing up the
> graphical mode.
>
> So I think this might be a glitch with some recent update.
>
> This is the error message:
>
> rio: can't open display: initdisplay: /dev/draw/new: no frame buffer
> init: rc exit status: rio 12: display open
>
> init: starting /bin/rc
> term%
>
> Has anyone else installing a recent Plan 9 ( in the last week or so )
> had a similar problem ?
>
> --Rob
>