Hi,

I'm trying to install the latest distribution of Plan 9 but I'm having terrible 
trouble getting rio to start. I've tried adding an entry for my video card in 
VGADB but then I just get a blank screen (after looking at the bios dump by 
aux/vga) even at 640x480x8. If I remove my entry, Plan 9 just tells me that my 
card can't be found in VGADB.

My video card is an embedded AGP bus ATI Rage 3D Iic card in my motherboard 
with 4MB of memory. The BIOS string has something like MACH64GW, but I fear it 
may not be compatible with the Mach 64 driver in Plan 9 (because of the blank 
screen). I figure I can port the ATI Rage 3D Iic from the XFree86 project or 
something in the long term, but in the short term I just want to get the 
install rolling.

Is there a generic VGA driver for Plan 9 that isn't accelerated and just uses 
the generic PC VGA IO ports for display? I'm not sure if that would be 
dependent on BIOS interrupts or not, hopefully not. Any help would be extremely 
appreciated!
-rian


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