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From: "Nigel Roles" <nigel@9fs.org>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Are nvidia-cards working with plan9?
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 14:21:28 +0100

You may well be right Russ. However, I thought that this
email demonstrated 'the right stuff'. Not

"changing my video card is too much trouble to run Plan 9",

but

"I'll etch my own silicon if needs be"


> 	s/I'll pass along the MOT S19 records for the 1.04 bios if anyone would 
> 	like them//
> 
> It seems to me that if replacing the BIOS is all
> that you need to do to get a card working, you
> should be able to just add the right BIOS string
> in vgadb instead: since we don't use the BIOS,
> if aux/vga works under the old BIOS it should
> work under the new one.
> 
> Russ
> 
>