From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andrey mirtchovski To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] no rio ? In-Reply-To: <87n0fr8gxp.fsf@rgristroph-austin.ath.cx> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 17:04:05 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: ea76665a-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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 >