On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 08:00:59PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
> On Wed May 26 12:33:49 EDT 2010, fr...@inua.be wrote:
> > I don't see a follow-up on this topic... I hope someone still has an
> > idea.
>
> not really. you may wish to double-check the vga register
I used aux/vga -ip with some different resolutions. The only strange
thing I see is that under "dbdumpmode" "frequency=100" always comes
back.
> settings. not sure about crt[13].
What do you mean with "crt[13]"?
> sometimes aux/vga -l text works when nothing else
> does.
I had already tried that, but it doesn't work either.
It seems I can stop searching. I have an identical box running Linux
and used lspci, which gave me some more info compared to the pci -v
output on Plan 9:
...
00:01.1 VGA compatible controller [0300]: National Semiconductor Corporation
Geode GX2 Graphics Processor [100b:0030] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: National Semiconductor Corporation Geode GX2 Graphics
Processor [100b:0030]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Region 0: Memory at 41000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Region 1: Memory at 40ffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Region 2: Memory at 40ff8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Region 3: Memory at 40ff4000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Kernel modules: gxfb
...
I googled for AMD GX2 graphics processor and the first result led to:
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Supported_PC_hardware/index.html
...
The following cards are known not to work with VESA:
...snip...
* AMD Geode GX2. Blank screen. Bug identified by Russ Cox, but hard to
solve.
...
Too bad, but at least, I learned something. I'll use a Via Epia box as
terminal to start learning the rest;-)
> - erik
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