Re: [9fans] window behaviour

2008-08-26 Thread Michaelian Ennis
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 5:45 AM, Robert Raschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I know, window doesn't take a -f option. So looking at /rc/bin/window I don't see a -f. Also am I correct in thinking that it is no longer possible to get the usage as it is only in fn oldway? Ian

[9fans] mouse trouble in VMWare Fusion

2008-08-26 Thread John Waters
Greetings fellow 9fans, I am having a strange and annoying issue with Plan9 inside vmware fusion. In both windowed and full screen mode the cursor will, seemingly randomly, "jump" into and out of the VM. That is to say that if Plan9 has control of my mouse, and I move the cursor across the "screen

Re: [9fans] mouse trouble in VMWare Fusion

2008-08-26 Thread Robert Raschke
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:58 AM, John Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings fellow 9fans, > > I am having a strange and annoying issue with Plan9 inside vmware > fusion. In both windowed and full screen mode the cursor will, > seemingly randomly, "jump" into and out of the VM. That is to s

Re: [9fans] Anyone handy with Alpha assembler?

2008-08-26 Thread Paweł Lasek
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 01:53, Benjamin Huntsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone around here still familiar with Alpha assembler (and the Alpha kernel > in general) willing to point me in the right direction? > > Supposing one wanted to implement instruction emulation for the BWX > extensions

Re: [9fans] Anyone handy with Alpha assembler?

2008-08-26 Thread Benjamin Huntsman
>I think trap.c would be easier to work with or extend to other >instructions, l.s might give better performance. That was my concern as well. The Alpha compiler doesn't optimize much. Not that optimization is going to matter much on an EV4. The problem I'm running into now is that by the time

Re: [9fans] mouse trouble in VMWare Fusion

2008-08-26 Thread Antonin Vecera
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Robert Raschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:58 AM, John Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Greetings fellow 9fans, >> >> I am having a strange and annoying issue with Plan9 inside vmware >> fusion. In both windowed and full screen mode t

Re: [9fans] mouse trouble in VMWare Fusion

2008-08-26 Thread David Paul
I never got it to work correctly, so I built a tiny pc platform for testing. VMware would have been nice, but I had to many weird unexplainable things happen. Just didn't have time to track it down. Hope it works for you though. :-) On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Antonin Vecera <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [9fans] Anyone handy with Alpha assembler?

2008-08-26 Thread Paweł Lasek
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 19:56, Benjamin Huntsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I think trap.c would be easier to work with or extend to other >>instructions, l.s might give better performance. > > That was my concern as well. The Alpha compiler doesn't optimize much. Not > that optimization is go

Re: [9fans] Anyone handy with Alpha assembler?

2008-08-26 Thread Benjamin Huntsman
>And could you share EBSDK? If the license permits, of course. If others here are interested, I can review the license and share what bits I can. Most of it is under the BSD license, though there are parts that are not. <>

Re: [9fans] mouse trouble in VMWare Fusion

2008-08-26 Thread Adrian Tritschler
I had the same problem under VMware workstation 5.5 and couldn't solve it, I ended up working around it by making the VMware plan9 system a cpu/auth box and connecting to it with drawterm from the linux host system. Unfortunately it was all on a single IDE disk and a hardware failure destroyed the

Re: [9fans] mouse trouble in VMWare Fusion

2008-08-26 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
> I had the same problem under VMware workstation 5.5 and couldn't solve > it, I ended up working around it by making the VMware plan9 system a > cpu/auth box and connecting to it with drawterm from the linux host > system. it is not this problem? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.plan9/msg/

Re: [9fans] mouse trouble in VMWare Fusion

2008-08-26 Thread Adrian Tritschler
2008/8/27 Skip Tavakkolian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I had the same problem under VMware workstation 5.5 and couldn't solve >> it, I ended up working around it by making the VMware plan9 system a >> cpu/auth box and connecting to it with drawterm from the linux host >> system. > > it is not this pro

[9fans] for Erik Quanstom

2008-08-26 Thread lucio
Sorry to bug this list, but I can't reach Erik any other way: >From 192.96.32.135: traceroute to 69.55.170.73 (69.55.170.73), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 192.96.32.129 1.012 ms 1.168 ms 0.898 ms 2 196.31.9.237 28.327 ms 16.686 ms 16.402 ms 3 196.31.249.69 21.114 ms 19.464 ms 19.

Re: [9fans] mouse trouble in VMWare Fusion

2008-08-26 Thread John Waters
Actually I used Plan9 on VMWare workstation for Linux for quite a while without too many problems. Then again all I was doing was working though Nemo's book. :) VMWare Fusion is definitely not yet ready for prime time, I have noticed some interoperability problems with other Guest OSes (FreeBSD) a