On 10/16/2012 8:07 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
Nothing but the monitor has changed. The graphic card has not
changed, it is still a ATI Technologies Radeon 9200SE. My configuration
for Plan9 has not changed either for the video stuff (whether
800x600 or 1024x768, I will have to check; but the monitor "auto
adapts" so some discrepancy between what the monitor and the card
agree to use and the size of the software buffer is not impossible).
When testing a new get_mk_install.rc and compilation for kerTeX,
a couple of seconds after switching to scroll mode (for kerTeX
compilation) under Plan9 (native), the machine froze hard. I had
to cold reboot, since simply rebooting, the BIOS had problems:
something has been trashed.
Had anyone already encountered such behavior? Hints about the
"whodunit"? And a cure?
no. i used a 16:9 monitor for a short while. no ill effects. other than
an ugly picture.
- erik
This sounds more like a hardware problem in your machine (not display)
than a bug in Plan 9. Plan 9 crashing hard shouldn't do anything to the
bios (unless it did something *really* nasty in /dev/realmode, but I
can't think of anything that would trash the bios).
--
Veety
