On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Andy Spencer <andy753...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2013-03-18 12:09, 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 ;-) ? > > I used to use a Dell M70 laptop with a 1920x1200 display. It had an > "Nvidia Quadro FX Go 1400" card which worked just fine with Plan 9. > > It's been years since I used it, but I remember I had to boot the laptop > in Linux and dump the modeline out of X somehow. I don't remember the > specifics on how to do that, but then I just pasted it into vgadb and > set the options in plan9.ini and everything worked great. > > I doubt it will help anyone, but here are the settings I used: > > plan9.ini: > | monitor=dellm70 > | vgasize=1920x1200x32 > > vgadb: > | dellm70=1920x1200x32 > | clock=162 > | shb=2020 ehb=2108 ht=2160 > | vrs=1201 vre=1204 vt=1250 > | hsync=+ vsync=+ >
Here's the process I used to moderate success: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/adding_a_monitor_to_vgadb/ Worked with a Syncmaster 240T, which was 1920x1200. john
