From: "Sander van Dijk" <a.h.vandijk@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] patch for installation in vmware
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:30:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ba0d3bc70807190030t7a8afe37pad5c89c1865c49f4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10b109140807181307k387ace28kfdac9cb2e7dc970@mail.gmail.com>
On 7/18/08, Antonin Vecera <antonin.vecera@gmail.com> wrote:
> I proposed a patch which turns off hw acceleration for vga if you boot
> in VMware.
> But now I find out that it is necessary to do the same in installation tree.
> So, if anybody can, please, correct this file /386/bin/aux/vmware on
> installation CD (add 1 line):
The file you're looking for seems to be /sys/lib/dist/pc/sub/vmware
> #!/bin/rc
>
> if(aux/isvmware -s){
> echo hwaccel off >'#v/vgactl' <-- add this command
> echo -n off >'#P/i8253timerset'
> for(i in '#S'/sd??)
> if(test -f $i/ctl)
> echo dma on >$i/ctl
> }
I think it would be good to place the for-loop in a "if(~ $dmamode
yes)" as well.
Greetings, Sander.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-19 7:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-18 20:07 Antonin Vecera
2008-07-19 7:30 ` Sander van Dijk [this message]
2008-07-19 13:50 ` Russ Cox
2008-07-19 15:48 ` Sander van Dijk
2008-07-20 8:11 ` Sander van Dijk
2008-07-20 12:55 ` Uriel
2008-07-23 9:43 ` Sander van Dijk
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