* [9fans] Vesa support revisited
@ 2005-08-15 13:34 Vester Thacker
2005-08-21 20:17 ` Russ Cox
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From: Vester Thacker @ 2005-08-15 13:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
How is vesa support coming along in Plan 9? Is there a major setback anywhere?
Just curious.
--vester
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* Re: [9fans] Vesa support revisited
2005-08-15 13:34 [9fans] Vesa support revisited Vester Thacker
@ 2005-08-21 20:17 ` Russ Cox
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From: Russ Cox @ 2005-08-21 20:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
> How is vesa support coming along in Plan 9? Is there a major setback anywhere?
> Just curious.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 12, 2005 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: [9fans] New to Plan 9, boot and install on Compaq AP550?
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
> Yeah, please include the vesa driver asap into the official ISO. Many
> interested people won't drop their attempts to get in touch with rio
> after booting into text mode and nothing works...
It will be done as soon as possible, but not for a few months.
In the fall I am going to slowly merge in the changes in
/n/sources/contrib/rsc, one by one, with sufficient testing
periods inbetween to isolate problems. Things beside vesa
are different in that code, and some of those things break
existing card support.
...
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