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To: vester.thacker@gmail.com, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Compaq Presario R3140US installation problem
Date: Tue,  4 Jan 2005 11:06:08 +0000
From: gdiaz@online.ie
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Hello,

It looks like the issues with radeon drivers, they cannot 
initialize correctly the LCD monitor (now that is fixed), you 
can try to boot from external monitor, and if that work, switch back
to lcd , may be that trick works for you (or may be not :) )


gabi

> When installing Plan 9 on a Presario R3140US laptop, the screen goes
> blank after selecting XGA. I'm curious if anyone else has had this
> problem and whether there is a fix.
> 
> Here is the bootstrap. My selections are in <>:
> PBS...Plan 9 from Bell Labs
> ELCR: 0C00
> 922MHz AMD64 loop 83674
> dev A0 port 1F0 config 045A capabilities 0F00 mwdma 0007 udma 203F
> LLBA sectors 117210240
> dev A0 port 170 config 85C0 capabilities 0F00 mwdma 0407
> pcirouting: South bridge 10DE, 00D0 not found
> found partition sdD0!cdboot; 43642+1440
> using sdD0!cdboot!plan9.ini
> .
> Plan 9 Startup Menu:
> =============
>    1.  Install Plan 9 from this CD
>    2.  Boot Plan 9 from this CD
> Selection:  <1>
> found 9pcflop.gz.....................................................
> 255079 => 754646+1104608+103648=1962902
> entry: 80100020
> 
> Plan 9
> cpu0: 798MHz AuthenticAMD AMD64 (cpuid: AX 0x0F48 DX 0x78BFBFF)
> ELCR: 0C00
> pcirouting: ignoring south bridge PCI.0.1.0 10DE/00D0
> #10: rtl8139: 100Mbps port 0x7000 irq 11: 00023F21871C
> 78292 free pages, 313168K bytes, 953168K swap
> kfs...version...time...
> 
> init: starting /bin/rc
> echo: write error: bad process or channel control request
> dossrv: serving #s/dos
> mouseport is (ps2, ps2intellimouse, 0, 1, 2) [ps2]:  <ps2>
> vgasize [640x480x8]:  <640x480x8>
> monitor is [xga]:  <xga>
> **Then the screen goes blank.**
> 
> --
> 
> Hardware specs for the Compaq Presario R3140US:
> -AMD64 Athlon 64 Processor 3000+ 1.8GHz
> -15.4" WXGA TFT Active Matrix Display
> -nVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go 32MB
> -512MB RAM
> -60GB Hard Drive
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated. I am more than happy to break this
> laptop within the 15 day refund period for the sake of Plan 9
> progress.
> 
> -vester