W B Hacker wrote:
Lyndon Nerenberg - VE6BBM/VE7TFX wrote:
Is anyone working on Unichrome vga support?
Besides Unichrome, which CPU, RAM, MB & ~bridge chips are you trying to
use it with?
ISTR having it up on a VIA C3 ~ 700 MHz, 1 GB SDRAM with embedded
Unichrome onboard about 2+ years ago..
And the CD still here boots fine on a Pentium-M Lenovo laptop.
However - it will not boot on a newer VIA C6 1.5 GHz 2 GB DDR2 RAM, also
with (newer) embedded unichrome on-board.
I suspect the VIA ~bridge chipset is not au fait with getting Plan9 to
the CDR.
NB: XCPU live CD is happy - but that isn't booting a Plan9 - just
hosting it on Fedora.
Bill Hacker
Scratch that - it should boot IF the CDR is the 'zeroth' device.
Mine is not, and I am too tired to open the case and mess with it.
BTW - 9 renders very cleanly on the Lenovo at a manually-entered 1280x800x16
using the onboard Wintel 945GM/GMS/GME graphics controller, ergo I presume 9 is
in VESA mode.
The Unichrome has always been comfortable with VESA under other OS'en that don't
have a bespoke S3 driver handy, so unless you are looking for a bespoke,
accelerated driver....
Bill
