Re: [9fans] graphics scaling

2008-12-22 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Dec 22 13:57:35 EST 2008, r...@swtch.com wrote: > > not ported. i'm glad that that hasn't been ported back. > > i find multi-line tags annoying 10 times for each time they > > are useful. > > is this an abstract assertion or have you actually tried them? > > russ i've used them for quite

Re: [9fans] graphics scaling

2008-12-22 Thread Russ Cox
> not ported. i'm glad that that hasn't been ported back. > i find multi-line tags annoying 10 times for each time they > are useful. is this an abstract assertion or have you actually tried them? russ

Re: [9fans] graphics scaling

2008-12-22 Thread erik quanstrom
> > Have the scrolling tags been ported into the mainline p9 yet? That's > > the main reason I still spend most of my time in P9P and SAC. > > Don't know. The install I did in my local partition was > from an image from at least this summer, maybe older. > I'm at work at the moment and can't c

Re: [9fans] graphics scaling

2008-12-22 Thread Brian L. Stuart
> Have the scrolling tags been ported into the mainline p9 yet? That's > the main reason I still spend most of my time in P9P and SAC. Don't know. The install I did in my local partition was from an image from at least this summer, maybe older. I'm at work at the moment and can't check to see

Re: [9fans] graphics scaling

2008-12-22 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Have the scrolling tags been ported into the mainline p9 yet? That's the main reason I still spend most of my time in P9P and SAC. Paul (who hasn't yet managed to get his hands on an Intel PCIe graphics adapter of any sort - frustr. It's as if

Re: [9fans] graphics scaling

2008-12-22 Thread Brian L. Stuart
> i've found it quite solid under Ubuntu 8.04, > and i'm running an old version of 9vx. > the last time i said that i'd had no trouble > it promptly blew up, but apart from that i haven't > had any trouble, once it starts up. i haven't used drawterm in ages, > except on > windows. The main issue I

Re: [9fans] graphics scaling

2008-12-22 Thread erik quanstrom
reliable 9vx hang acid -ltruss /bin/cal acid: new() acid: truss() - erik

Re: [9fans] graphics scaling

2008-12-22 Thread erik quanstrom
it's not quite as fun to work with. beware % with signed quantities. gcc likes negative results such situtations. not a good idea for array indexing. e.g. ipaux.c: return (ulong)(sa[IPaddrlen-1]<<24 ^ sp<< 16 ^ da[IPaddrlen-1]<<8 ^ dp) % Nhash; - erik

Re: [9fans] graphics scaling

2008-12-22 Thread Charles Forsyth
i've found it quite solid under Ubuntu 8.04, and i'm running an old version of 9vx. the last time i said that i'd had no trouble it promptly blew up, but apart from that i haven't had any trouble, once it starts up. i haven't used drawterm in ages, except on windows.--- Begin Message --- > would 9v

Re: [9fans] graphics scaling

2008-12-22 Thread Brian L. Stuart
> would 9vx running under linux be an interesting option? I think so. These days, if I'm not booting into Plan 9 directly, 9vx is the only way I'm running it. For that matter, I don't think I've fired up drawterm in months. I did run into a few weird things in Linux, but I've been using it most

Re: [9fans] graphics scaling

2008-12-22 Thread erik quanstrom
> with dual pci express buses which allow symetric access to the > frame buffer which sidestep this problem (see discussion on 9fans reference? pci express is symmetric. if there's asymmetry between r and w it's not because of bus symmetry. - erik

Re: [9fans] graphics scaling

2008-12-22 Thread Steve Simon
Re: fusion would 9vx running under linux be an interesting option? re: resample If you are experimenting with interploation a zoneplate is one of the best test signals to check your work on, though its interpretation can be tricky. /n/sources/contrib/steve/zoneplate.c http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/r

Re: [9fans] graphics scaling

2008-12-22 Thread Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
Hi Richard/pac, thanks for the quick response and info. i will try it out as soon as i am able to use some plan9. currently my old plan9 machine is almost dead and i am fighting with VMs to install plan9. luckily i also bought a copy of vmware fusion today. so i am trying with it too. thanks dhar

Re: [9fans] graphics scaling

2008-12-22 Thread cej
>> - are there any command-line tools to rescale images, etc? i remember >> earlier edition of plan9 had command-line tools. >resample(1) /n/sources/contrib/pac/sys/src/ape/cmd/img/netpbm-10.26.1.tbz ++pac. <>

Re: [9fans] graphics scaling

2008-12-22 Thread Richard Miller
> - are there any command-line tools to rescale images, etc? i remember > earlier edition of plan9 had command-line tools. resample(1)

[9fans] graphics scaling

2008-12-21 Thread Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
hi, to the extent i know there is no facility to scale graphics image in inferno and plan9. long back when i went thru ATI graphics chip specification and another set-top box ASIC spec, I found that these accelerations are supported in hardware. here are my questions along these lines: - do other