> It`s possible to install the Plan 9 distribution onto Asus P5Q-Pro > motherboard with two SATA HDD drive and a SATA DVD-RAM/±R/±RWdrive with > 4 GB memory.
reports of Asus P5Q-Pro + ahci (fossil+venti+auth+cpu server) after above time (1) It looks like to be able to read SATA CDROM, such that we can see directories, files at the top level of /n/cdrom. However, it fails to read the files under deeper levels, say such as /n/cdrom/sys/src/9/pc/pc. In short we cannot read cdrom correctly. (2) vesa vga driver doen't work for say 1280x1024x16 or x 32 vgasize ( this machine's vga card is ATI Radeon HD 4350(1002/954f). When I set it as 1280x1024x16, I see two small windows at the upper part of the display, and the lower part is jamed. For 1280x1024x32, I see four small windows at the upper 1/4 part etc... (3) for another older terminal machine with Celeron CPU with GeForce2 MX400 (10de/0110), I can set the display only for 1024x768x8. This is not vesamode, but nvidia driver. Interestingly, I can use 1024x768x32 on this machine, when I booted from the distribution CDROM (03/03/2010), which uses 9pccd. For (2), the CDROM booted system doesn't run as 1280x1024x16 or x32 mode. >From the above observation, I suspect that the vga driver does read only the >one byte for each pixel. If I use 32 bit depth, the one pixel have 4 bytes, and then four windows are shown. Each window is the reasult of each byte from the four bytes. Is my guess is wrong? For nvidia driver, I don't have any idea what's is going. Is the 9pccd.gz of the booting CDROM is differnt from the 9pccd.gz compiled from the source tree? Kenji
