I have an LG A1 "Dual Express" notebook that I bought here in Riyadh a few months ago. It also has a PRPD (pseudorandom pointing device) and it has nearly driven me to the point of spazzing out on several occasions. Other than that it is a great litte laptop. Since it has an external USB device I have not loaded plan9 on bare metal, I run it on VMWare workstation 6.
Which brings me to a question: Does anyone have trouble booting new installations of plan9 on vmware6? I turn off hwaccel, load the os, and after the install completes and the system reboots it just hangs. I am still using systems built on Mahmoud's vmware image (for which I am indeed grateful). I would very much like to do clean installs on vmware, especially since I am evangelizing plan9 as much as possible here in Saudi and using it to teach my trainees about operating systems. John On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 7:01 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 3 buttons and a nipple not a touchpad >> >> no Windows key :) > > These are concrete assets. I know at least one other laptop user (I > have an old Compac Presario 900, he has a newer Acer or some such) > that manages to trigger the touchpad without touching it. Very, very > annoying. As for the Windows key, on the limited keyboard real estate > of a laptop, it is a serious waste. > > ++L > > >
