On Mar 18, 2013, at 6:43 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 2013-03-18, at 4:09 AM, Peter A. Cejchan wrote: > >> could anyone recommend (personal experience would be nice) a VGA card that >> can support >> 1920x1200 mode on native Plan 9 from Bell Labs (from Bell Labs ;-) > > My ancient Via Epia EK-10000G mini-ITX motherboard does 1920x1080x(24 or 32? > I forget, and can't check right this second) out of the on-board VGA via the > Chrome VESA BIOS. That machine will be my favourite Plan 9 terminal until > the end of time, I suspect ... An HDMI display + a RaspberryPi can make a decent terminal. No h/w acceleration yet either with x11/Linux or 9pi but its speed is good enough for me. an openVG version of p9p /dev/draw would speed things up.... Porting their open source openVG user land code to 9pi is a much bigger task (too many Linux dependencies).
