Re: [9fans] Using proportional fonts in Acme for Programming

2009-08-16 Thread Daniel Lyons
On Aug 14, 2009, at 12:28 PM, "Roman V. Shaposhnik" wrote: I looked at it for a while and came with a realization that it could be just a tad heavier than what I need for most of the stuff I do. Plus I'm not sure how to port it to Plan9 without first porting the JVM. I actually meant to cr

[9fans] USB Input Devices Support

2009-08-16 Thread Anthony Sherbondy
Hi everyone, I previously sent in a post, but I think it was completely overlooked due to the heated discussions at the time. I have previously corresponded with Russ Cox and Eric re: the problems I am having getting a plan9 boot on the mac-minis that I am using. Has anyone successfully installe

Re: [9fans] USB Input Devices Support

2009-08-16 Thread erik quanstrom
> Hi everyone, > > I previously sent in a post, but I think it was completely overlooked due to > the heated discussions at the time. I have previously corresponded with > Russ Cox and Eric re: the problems I am having getting a plan9 boot on the > mac-minis that I am using. > > Has anyone succe

[9fans] vac errors after updating to latest p9p archive

2009-08-16 Thread Fernan Bolando
Hi all Anybody seen this error before create bsize 8192 psize 8180 vacfsopen 271cb9c9fdc75030ff368bc938ee419e1dbb4bb2 openscore 8192 psize 8160 dsize 8192 vtcachebumpblock: no free blocks in vtCacheAbort trap I just updated to august 16 version. I am running vac through crontab under openbsd reg

Re: [9fans] vac errors after updating to latest p9p archive

2009-08-16 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Fernan Bolando wrote: > Hi all > > Anybody seen this error before > create bsize 8192 psize 8180 > vacfsopen 271cb9c9fdc75030ff368bc938ee419e1dbb4bb2 > openscore 8192 psize 8160 dsize 8192 > vtcachebumpblock: no free blocks in vtCacheAbort trap > > I just updated t

Re: [9fans] Dell E4300?

2009-08-16 Thread erik quanstrom
there's a new ftp://ftp.quanstro.net/other/9atom.iso.bz2 > It has on-board SATA hd, SATA cd-rom, etc. I tried quanstro's 9atom.iso, and > with the SATA controller in AHCI mode, it'll start booting, but hangs at: > > 4 => 818807+1020832+474972=2314611 > entry: f0100020 > > Plan 9 okay. i

Re: [9fans] Dell E4300?

2009-08-16 Thread Benjamin Huntsman
>there's a new ftp://ftp.quanstro.net/other/9atom.iso.bz2 The second part of your reply appears to not be directed to this issue, but something similar. I don't remember writing that. Anyway, we're getting much further, but the boot process still dies: ... pat: 0107040600070406 ELCR: 0C08 p

[9fans] Blogger tools

2009-08-16 Thread matt
When the time came to choose a blogging platform I chose blogger because a few other 9fans had done the same and I thought "great, blogger's UI is annoying enough that someone will make some plan9 tools" Two years later, that someone is me. A bunch of shell scripts that wrap around some python

Re: [9fans] Dell E4300?

2009-08-16 Thread Benjamin Huntsman
>I'm installing now and will post the results. Okay, the install works perfectly, and I'm up and running! Many thanks! I recall reading that the CD is otherwise identical to the "stock" version. So, if I recompile the kernel, it'll break, right? What utterances do I need to enter in order to re

Re: [9fans] Dell E4300?

2009-08-16 Thread erik quanstrom
> I recall reading that the CD is otherwise identical to the "stock" > version. So, if I recompile the kernel, it'll break, right? What > utterances do I need to enter in order to rebuild the kernel as it > appears on the 9atom cd? the short answer is that you can't, exactly — yet. here's the o

[9fans] vga and vmware

2009-08-16 Thread Tim Newsham
When booting plan9 in vmware the graphics seem to work fine up to 1024x768x8, but higher resolutions cause a panic trying to write to a non-existant address. (Didnt map enough memory for the screen maybe?) It seems to put the card in the right mode and even print out the stack trace onto the hig

Re: [9fans] laptop install woes

2009-08-16 Thread Jamie Gavahan
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 20:12, matt wrote: > >> This is pretty much a show-stopper for me.  I guess it's time to find a >> new >> laptop with supported hardware. >> >> > > or a usb ethernet device > That is a good point. I looked at what usb/ether supports and bought an Arkview USB-G1000. http:/

[9fans] copying a venti

2009-08-16 Thread Steve Simon
I am trying to copy my venti from an old server to a new one, currently I am using somthing along the lines of: venti/rdarenas > /tmp/arena; venti/wrarenas /tmp/arena Which is progressing, admittedly very slowly. I had this problem before and Russ suggested that perhaps my bloom filter wa

Re: [9fans] vga and vmware

2009-08-16 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
2009/8/16 Tim Newsham : > When booting plan9 in vmware the graphics seem to work fine up > to 1024x768x8, but higher resolutions cause a panic trying to > write to a non-existant address.  (Didnt map enough memory for > the screen maybe?)  It seems to put the card in the right mode > and even print

[9fans] 9fans.net/archive/ google index

2009-08-16 Thread hiro
> interestingly, googling for this with >        site:9fans.net/archive/2009/08 PAT > returns nothing. I've seen these kind of problems a lot. I have looked around, I searched for any misconfigured robot file, but not having found any I am left wondering. Why doesn't google index our archive? Even

Re: [9fans] vga and vmware

2009-08-16 Thread Tim Newsham
When booting plan9 in vmware the graphics seem to work fine up to 1024x768x8, but higher resolutions cause a panic trying to [...] panic: kernel fault: bad address pc=0xf01eb43e addr=0xe03c panic: kernel fault: bad address pc=0xf01eb43e addr=0xe03c /dev/vgactl says 0xe000 has 0x3c0

Re: [9fans] HP: Printing with the Illiterate

2009-08-16 Thread Akshat Kumar
Too bad I didn't initially try this, but if I send a print right after the timeout, I can get the whole print. The next time I want to print, however, I have to go through the same thing. So, a wasted paper for every print. Would still be great to not have the issue at all. ak

Re: [9fans] Dell E4300?

2009-08-16 Thread erik quanstrom
> boot: can't connect to file server: '#S/sdD0' file does not exist > panic: boot process died: unknown > panic: boot process died: unknown > dumpstack disabled > cpo0: exiting fixed. you should now be able to boot from the cd regardless of which port you've plugged it into sdE5 should be fine.