Hardware setup


This page contains notes on what we did to install plan9 3rd Ed. on various machines, mostly just tweaks to /lib/vgadb to get the video going.

Machines

Thinkpad T23

Thinkpad T21

Thinkpad 600E

Thinkpad 570

Thinkpad 560

Thinkpad 760

Compaq SP700 workstation

Video cards

GeForce 2 MX

Nvidia TNT2 Vanta.

in /lib/vgadb add the line:

	0xC00CB="NVIDIA GeForce2 MX"			# NVIDIA GeForce2 MX
just before the section:
	link=vga
	ctlr=nvidia linear=1
	hwgc=nvidiahwgc

ASUS GeForce 2 MX in /lib/vgadb add the line:

	 0x00CB="ASUS AGP-V7100 VGA BIOS Version 3.11.00.04"
just before the section:
	link=vga
	ctlr=nvidia linear=1
	hwgc=nvidiahwgc

S3 Powergraph card in /lib/vgadb add the line:

    0xC0044="STB PowerGraph 64 Video"
in the s3 section.


Last Modified: May 27 2002
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