Re: [9fans] Help with S3 video card needed

Re: [9fans] Help with S3 video card needed

[Louis N. Beleos]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 sanfranmike@worldnet.att.net wrote:

> Before adding my card to the vgadb on the boot diskette I
> did get a ahell prompt but it was on a character based
> screen not the gui. After adding my card to the vgadb
> file I do not get a shell prompt.
> 
It looks as though vga initialization is failing. 
The following is all that I could find in trying to
associate a chipset with (0xC0044="S3 86CM65 Video BIOS").
The associated chipset appears to be the Aurora64V+, which
basically is a Trio64V+ core, which in turn is an enhanced
Trio64 (www.faqs.org/faqs/pc-hardware-faq/video/chipsets/).

There are two vgadb controller entries for the trio64, one
with linear and one without. If you have already tried these
then I am out of ideas (and out of my league).

Louis

Re: [9fans] Help with S3 video card needed

[Louis N. Beleos]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Michael wrote:
> ...
> After booting with the original boot disk and getting "controller not in
> vgadb" I added a line for my controller at Cx0040 just below the other
> S3 cards. After rebooting with the edited vgadb I don't get the failure
> message and the vgainfo.txt file, I don't get the failure message but I
> also don't get any graphics screen. It just sits there. Can anyone help?
> ...

Do you get a shell prompt?
What do your plan9.ini entries for 'monitor= ' and 'vgasize= ' look like?

--
Louis

[9fans] Help with S3 video card needed

[Michael]

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After booting with the original boot disk and getting "controller not in
vgadb" I added a line for my controller at Cx0040 just below the other
S3 cards. After rebooting with the edited vgadb I don't get the failure
message and the vgainfo.txt file, I don't get the failure message but I
also don't get any graphics screen. It just sits there. Can anyone help?

I've included the vgainfo.txt file generated in the first boot.

Thanks,
Mike
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aux/vga: controller not in /lib/vgadb
0xC0000 55 AA 40 EB 04 37 34 30 30 E9 5C 13 00 00 00 00  U.@..7400.\.....
0xC0010 F0 56 00 00 00 00 00 00 C8 01 2F 4F 33 4F 49 42  .V......../O3OIB
0xC0020 4D 20 56 47 41 20 43 6F 6D 70 61 74 69 62 6C 65  M VGA Compatible
0xC0030 20 42 49 4F 53 2E 20 00 BB 66 A8 01 83 01 12 00   BIOS. ..f......
0xC0040 00 FF 00 00 53 33 20 38 36 43 4D 36 35 20 56 69  ....S3 86CM65 Vi
0xC0050 64 65 6F 20 42 49 4F 53 2E 20 56 65 72 73 69 6F  deo BIOS. Versio
0xC0060 6E 20 31 2E 30 32 2D 30 35 0D 0A 43 6F 70 79 72  n 1.02-05..Copyr
0xC0070 69 67 68 74 20 31 39 39 36 20 53 33 20 49 6E 63  ight 1996 S3 Inc
0xC0080 6F 72 70 6F 72 61 74 65 64 2E 0D 0A 00 00 00 00  orporated.......
0xC0090 00 00 00 00 30 37 2F 32 36 2F 39 36 30 37 2F 32  ....07/26/9607/2
0xC00A0 36 2F 39 36 01 00 01 09 02 00 05 09 2F 37 3F 37  6/96......../7?7
0xC00B0 69 37 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 53 57 FF 7F  i7..........SW..
0xC00C0 CD 37 00 00 8D 03 00 00 00 01 FA 02 FA 03 FA 19  .7..............
0xC00D0 38 48 39 A5 31 05 32 40 33 00 34 00 35 00 3A 05  8H9.1.2@3.4.5.:.
0xC00E0 3C 10 42 00 43 00 45 00 51 00 53 00 55 00 58 43  <.B.C.E.Q.S.U.XC
0xC00F0 5D 00 5E 00 63 00 65 00 66 88 67 00 68 CD 69 00  ].^.c.e.f.g.h.i.
main->snarf
vga->snarf
vga->dump
vga misc             67
vga feature          00
vga sequencer        03 00 03 00 02
vga crt              5F 4F 50 82 55 81 BF 1F - 00 4F 0D 0E 00 00 05 00
                     9C 8E 8F 28 1F 96 B9 A3 - FF
vga graphics         00 00 00 00 00 10 0E 00 - FF
vga attribute        00 01 02 03 04 05 14 07 - 38 39 3A 3B 3C 3D 3E 3F
                     0C 00 0F 08 00
vga apz                     0
vga linear                  0

vmf 25175000 vmdf 0 vf1 0 vbw 0
vga->init
dbdumpmode
type=vga, size=640x480x1
frequency=25175000
x=640 (0x280), y=480 (0x1E0), z=1 (0x1)
ht=800 (0x320), shb=664 (0x298), ehb=760 (0x2F8)
shs=664 (0x298), ehs=760 (0x2F8)
vt=525 (0x20D), vrs=491 (0x1EB), vre=493 (0x1ED)
hsync=0, vsync=0, interlace=0
vga->dump
vga flag             Fdump|Finit|Fsnarf
vga misc             E3
vga feature          00
vga sequencer        03 01 0F 00 06
vga crt              5F 4F 52 9F 53 1F20B 3E - 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00
                    1EB 2D1DF 28 001EB1EC C3 -7FF
vga graphics         00 00 00 00 00 00 05 0F - FF
vga attribute        00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 - 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F
                     01 FF 0F 00 00
vga apz                     0
vga linear                  0

main->exits

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