> How is vesa support coming along in Plan 9? Is there a major setback anywhere?
> Just curious.

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From: Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Aug 12, 2005 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: [9fans] New to Plan 9, boot and install on Compaq AP550?
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


> Yeah, please include the vesa driver asap into the official ISO. Many
> interested people won't drop their attempts to get in touch with rio
> after booting into text mode and nothing works...

It will be done as soon as possible, but not for a few months.
In the fall I am going to slowly merge in the changes in
/n/sources/contrib/rsc, one by one, with sufficient testing
periods inbetween to isolate problems.  Things beside vesa
are different in that code, and some of those things break
existing card support.

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