I downloaded the vesa-enabled iso image, and it works well everywhere I have tested it, being various desktop machines and my dell laptop with nvidia card. Of course, I can only have a configuration of 1024x768x16 max (My laptop card allows 1600x1200x32 max). I can use and install plan 9 from the vesa iso with no video problems, but I would like to know if the iso is and will be mantained in sync with the latest plan 9 changes so that I know I could download it in the future and use an up to date system. I have a very slow internet conection, I can only download the iso from time to time. Are there plans to insert the vesa driver in the official iso? Or better, plans to get a basic nvidia driver in the future? In the former case, I am using it with no problems, so if it is in experimental state, it is very stable already. Thanks.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Christoph Lohmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 8:31 AM Subject: Re: [9fans] New to Plan 9, boot and install on Compaq AP550? > Good day. > > There is an experimental ISO at 9grid.de[0], for testing, if VESA works > or not. It can be booted as LiveCD used for trying out Plan 9. The other > possibility is to use Drawterm[1] for connecting to 9grid and so try out > Plan 9 as user. Booting Plan 9 from the FreeBSD bootloader should work, > as there is a standard bootloader in the 9fat partition, in the Plan 9 > installation, the ATA HDD should be supported by now and can be seen on > the CD boot, by the "dev A* ..." lines after "ELCR: ...". Each of them > is a IDE device, that was found. > > Sincerely, > > Christoph > > [0] http://www.9grid.de/plan9/plan9vesa.iso.bz2 > [1] http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/p9/ (drawterm-*.gz) >
