On 08/02/2009 03:10 PM, Daniel Lyons wrote: > Hi, > > I installed Plan 9 under Parallels 3 back in November of last year and > it worked without a hitch. I tried to install another copy tonight and > the bitmapped display isn't working in the new one, I just get a pure > black screen after any aux/vga command that it thinks will succeed. I > found I can reproduce that behavior by building and running a new kernel > in the old install. Any ideas what has happened since November in the > kernel with respect to Vesa and Parallels? I'd be more than happy to > debug this issue if I could get a little guidance. I didn't see anything > in the archives about this problem. Alternatively, does anyone know if > Parallels 4 works with a current kernel? If so I'll probably just > upgrade to that; I've been holding off for a good reason to.
A new faster vesa driver was added a few days ago, see http://www.google.com/search?q=group%3A+comp.os.plan9+faster+vesa+driver I also faced a similar problem on Plan9 running under QEMU, switching back to xga solved the problem temporally, but this, skipping over and, or ignoring bugs or compatibility issues in a new driver is definitely not a solution :( -- Balwinder S "bdheeman" Dheeman Registered Linux User: #229709 Anu'z li...@home (Unix Shoppe) Machines: #168573, 170593, 259192 Chandigarh, UT, 160062, India Plan9, T2, Arch/Debian/FreeBSD/XP Home: http://werc.homelinux.net/ Visit: http://counter.li.org/
