Re: [9fans] 9atom beta installer (with venti+fossil install)

2014-04-04 Thread Erik Quanstrom
it now also boots on page machines. I don't think many pre page machines boot from USB. let me know if that's wrong. - erik lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: >> hget http://ftp.9atom.org/other/+usbinstamd64.bz2 > >Does it only cover the 64-bit platform? > >++L > > > >

Re: [9fans] what is differece(s) between sources and atom kernel?

2014-04-04 Thread kokamoto
>> Can somebody please include this in the fortunes database? > > そんなアホな! > 止めてお願い Hmm, nupas passed UTF8 encoded Japanese mail. Sorry all of others. It means, dont't do it, please! Kenji

Re: [9fans] what is differece(s) between sources and atom kernel?

2014-04-04 Thread kokamoto
>> My machine has only 4GB memory though. > > Can somebody please include this in the fortunes database? そんなアホな! 止めてお願い Kenji

Re: [9fans] 9atom beta installer (with venti+fossil install)

2014-04-04 Thread lucio
> hget http://ftp.9atom.org/other/+usbinstamd64.bz2 Does it only cover the 64-bit platform? ++L

[9fans] 9atom beta installer (with venti+fossil install)

2014-04-04 Thread erik quanstrom
a new version of the 9atom installer is available that will install to either kfs or fossil+venti, and it should fix all of the outstanding bugs in the installer. (i.e. installing your own user not working, etc.) it's still got sharp edges, and i'm the only one to have installed it, so it's in th

Re: [9fans] usb/kb: Home key produces "7"

2014-04-04 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri Apr 4 05:28:30 EDT 2014, yari...@gmail.com wrote: > finally got it complete: /n/sources/patch/usbkb-map > you might want to look at the atom version. /n/sources/patch/usbkbrptnum it also handles the kbd led so you know the state of things, and odd japanese scan codes. i also noticed thi

Re: [9fans] Python/Mercurial error

2014-04-04 Thread David du Colombier
> I got a fresh copy of go from the current hg tip and applied this > patch. I now see some other errors while it builds pkg/math module: I > had not seen these before, so perhaps something new that landed in the > go repo may be responsible for it? > > go/src/pkg/math/abs.go:14: internal error: ab

Re: [9fans] Python/Mercurial error

2014-04-04 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:49 AM, David du Colombier <0in...@gmail.com> wrote: > Two days ago, I've fixed the script mklibc.rc to > generate the libc_plan9.h file properly on 9atom. > > https://codereview.appspot.com/82660044/ > > Please give a try and review this change to > get it submitted before

Re: [9fans] usb/kb: Home key produces "7"

2014-04-04 Thread Yaroslav
finally got it complete: /n/sources/patch/usbkb-map 2013-08-08 19:26 GMT+03:00 Yaroslav : > It gets even weirder: another hack to enable F11/F12. > > /n/dump/2013/0808/sys/src/cmd/usb/kb/kb.c:473,479 - > /sys/src/cmd/usb/kb/kb.c:473,479 > } > > > - #define hasesc1(sc) (((sc) >= 0x47) || ((sc) ==

Re: [9fans] device names in venti conf

2014-04-04 Thread Yaroslav
the proposal submitted: /n/sources/patch/venti-cfgrelpath 2013-09-13 14:57 GMT+03:00 yaroslav : >> Can we avoid explicit device names in venti conf? Changes in device >> names on new hardware cause unnecessary delays during FS recovery. > > One of available options is to modify venti so it prepend

Re: [9fans] nil, and the danger of zero

2014-04-04 Thread lucio
> which is why this code has > been just like that in plan 9 for 15 or more years. Please arrange to change it :-) ++L

Re: [9fans] what is differece(s) between sources and atom kernel?

2014-04-04 Thread lucio
> How do you, all the contributers, think about this? I find it inconvenient, but I can understand where it's coming from. Different cultures as well as different legal requirements. ++L

Re: [9fans] what is differece(s) between sources and atom kernel?

2014-04-04 Thread lucio
> also, since pae is only 18 years old, we can assert that you probablly > don't have a #9 video card in it or other such old stuff. i have nothing > against the old stuff, but there has to be a way to clean out the closets. :-) I tend to trim down my kernel for at least some of the (old) machine