Re: [9fans] Cute plan9/inferno client?

2011-01-28 Thread Richard Miller
> once had a high level discussion with some 802.11 chip companies about open > source drivers. Their biggest fear seems to be in revealing all of the > various bugs in their chips. Which I thought was interesting. Wouldn't it be better to get early silicon and full documentation out to 3rd par

[9fans] ACME: can't open file

2011-01-28 Thread Nyan Htoo Tin
Hi, I'm newbie to plan 9, I followed a newbie-guideline for plan 9. http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:QmcfceZ7SaEJ:www.quanstro.net/newbie-guide.pdf+plan+9+newbie&hl=en&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgTqzYeNZOLhG2K94Rvow-B5QW7fca_kmbC2_aLHOYpZddUl27h_fpgZcy46k8CSKJ9CXoZVzGiEK0uCamT85OSZuUJjf3EuJe4Dtkz

Re: [9fans] ACME: can't open file

2011-01-28 Thread hugo rivera
Hi, that should work with *existing* files. 2011/1/28 Nyan Htoo Tin : > > Hi, I'm newbie to plan 9, I followed a newbie-guideline for plan 9. > http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:QmcfceZ7SaEJ:www.quanstro.net/newbie-guide.pdf+plan+9+newbie&hl=en&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgTqzYeNZOLhG2K94Rvow-B5QW7

Re: [9fans] Cute plan9/inferno client?

2011-01-28 Thread hiro
> Or am I being naive? Yes, I'm sure there's more about it, but I haven't studied politics, so I can't give any details. Erik, your intel fanboism really bores me. I love that some people here put a lot of work into other low power, small form factors. And instead of useless 3d graphic cards perh

Re: [9fans] Cute plan9/inferno client?

2011-01-28 Thread erik quanstrom
> Erik, your intel fanboism really bores me. [citation needed] by the way, i don't think there is any room for personal attacks on this list. > I love that some people here put a lot of work into other low power, > small form factors. And instead of useless 3d graphic cards perhaps we > will hav

Re: [9fans] missing Greek letters in p9p troff

2011-01-28 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Hello, now I know a bit more. 9 eqn seems to throw away my Greek letters for some reason. Having a file with contents: .EQ aαb .EN i.e. a Greek letter between 'a' and 'b' in the math mode, produces, 9 eqn file .EQ .ds 11 "\f2a\^\^\^b\fP .if 1m>\n(.v .ne 1m .rn 11 10 \&\*(10 .EN .lf 4 Can anybo

Re: [9fans] ARM based terminal?

2011-01-28 Thread Steve Simon
The closest thing I can find to what I want is this: http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/13500_ca/13500_ca.PDF But it uses the undocumented SiS Volari Z11 VGA controller. There is a linux driver for this chip but that's all, and by all accounts its not enough. -Steve

Re: [9fans] ARM based terminal?

2011-01-28 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
> There are some newish fanless intel mini-itx motherboards about, anyone > had one of these boot plan9? I had poor results from the previous generation > due to unhelpful BIOS. Try to get your hands on a C3-based board. They tend to predate much of the ACPI crap that has infested the BIOS space

Re: [9fans] ARM based terminal?

2011-01-28 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri Jan 28 12:36:48 EST 2011, lyn...@orthanc.ca wrote: > > There are some newish fanless intel mini-itx motherboards about, anyone > > had one of these boot plan9? I had poor results from the previous generation > > due to unhelpful BIOS. > > Try to get your hands on a C3-based board. They ten

Re: [9fans] ARM based terminal?

2011-01-28 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri Jan 28 11:13:28 EST 2011, st...@quintile.net wrote: > The closest thing I can find to what I want is this: > > http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/13500_ca/13500_ca.PDF > > But it uses the undocumented SiS Volari Z11 VGA controller. what does this have that the openrd doe

Re: [9fans] Cute plan9/inferno client?

2011-01-28 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
> > The Tegra is probably one of the best ARM chips out there... > No it isn't; the Tegra lacks NEON. -- vs

Re: [9fans] Cute plan9/inferno client?

2011-01-28 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri Jan 28 16:33:03 EST 2011, m...@acm.jhu.edu wrote: > > > > The Tegra is probably one of the best ARM chips out there... > > > > No it isn't; the Tegra lacks NEON. why do you think simd support is key? we have simd on x86 and ignore it. - erik

Re: [9fans] Cute plan9/inferno client?

2011-01-28 Thread hiro
Hey, nothing against you erik, it's more or less the whole pc market I'm bragging against. Everyone here should know by now that I've never done anything valuable, I'm just here to tell my dreams. And in the end everything will become the exact opposite :D But still, why should anybody put his tim

Re: [9fans] plan9 compatible notebook

2011-01-28 Thread John Floren
Replying to an old post here, but I'd like to chime in that the x300 is a beautiful laptop for running Plan 9; I just installed on one. Pity it's going to be a cpu/auth server, because it's great hardware that makes a sweet terminal. Wireless is your own problem, though. What would it take to get U

Re: [9fans] plan9 compatible notebook

2011-01-28 Thread cinap_lenrek
writing usb drivers is easy. -- cinap --- Begin Message --- Replying to an old post here, but I'd like to chime in that the x300 is a beautiful laptop for running Plan 9; I just installed on one. Pity it's going to be a cpu/auth server, because it's great hardware that makes a sweet terminal. Wire