For the record, I haven't been able to reproduce it now. (I have opened
the box to verify connections and so on; and to be exhaustive, the
only modification was to simply move a IDE loose end cable further
from the motherboard---I always wonder, with the increase of speed, what
the electromagnetic
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 06:53:17AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
>
> i would recommend using aux/realemu. it provides a measure of safety
> when doing mode setting. it could be that the vesa bios does go off
> into the woods when it detects a 16:9 monitor. the vesa bios has access
> to this info
> > 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).
>
> Thanks to b
In answer to the description of my problems with display and a hard
freeze:
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:58:03AM -0400, Matthew Veety wrote:
> On 10/16/2012 8:07 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
> >
> >no. i used a 16:9 monitor for a short while. no ill effects. other than
> >an ugly picture.
> >
> >- e
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 monit
> 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
Hello,
Since my previous monitor died, I bought a new LCD one with 16:9 ratio,
running under X11 at 1600x900.
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
