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From: Scott Schwartz schwartz@bio...
Subject: [9fans] Building a new Plan 9 system.
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 04:24:58 -0400

"James A. Robinson" <Jim.Robinson@Sta...> writes:
| drivers for my current video cards (I've got one Matrox Millenium, two
| Matrox Millentium II, and one #9 Revolution 3D), but in the mean time I
| need a card.  

Jim was nice enough to send me the Brazil drivers for the mil2, which I
haven't had a chance to retrofit yet, unfortunately.  (As well, that
card is apparently not being manufactured anymore, so I don't know if
I'll be able to actually get one as planned.)

I guess the official philosophy is that 640x480 should work everywhere,
and that should be enough for you to run acme and write drivers for
whatever you do have. :-)

| Ideally I would like to have 1600x1200, or 1280x1024, in as
| many colors as plan9 needs for normal use.  I've got my current linux box
| running at 1600x1200x24 and would love it if I could get the same with
| plan9. 

It's eight bit color, at whatever res you have enough ram (wired down
in the kernel, alas, for /dev/bitblt) to support.

| 	#9 9fx Motion 771 PCI ($194.00) 

That one works well, and is higher end than the others you mentioned.