Re: [9fans] Using proportional fonts in Acme for Programming
On Aug 14, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Roman V. Shaposhnik r...@sun.com 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 create a new Plan 9-specific Lisp variant, perhaps stealing some of Clojure's new ideas. Especially with respect to parallelism, the standard library and a few other things. I like that I can call into Java libs from Clojure but that's not the most interesting thing about it to me. Another thing which would be cool would be something like scsh. -- Daniel Lyons
Re: [9fans] USB Input Devices Support
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 installed plan9 using only USB input devices (keyboard/mouse)? I have no serial ports on all of my machines. Any pointers any of you could suggest is greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time, AJ Sherbondy assuming that usb is your only problem, there's one obvious but solvable problem. the install cd's 9load needs kbd input to boot. this could be solved by adding a menu timeout to the bootflop plan9.ini. there are probablly other problems that aren't so obvious. but fixing this (which you can do without a running plan 9 installation) would probablly get you far. - erik
[9fans] vac errors after updating to latest p9p archive
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 regards fernan -- http://www.fernski.com
Re: [9fans] vac errors after updating to latest p9p archive
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Fernan Bolandofernanbola...@mailc.net 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 to august 16 version. I am running vac through crontab under openbsd regards fernan oops seeing that I posted this blindly anybody can now gain access to my files. -- http://www.fernski.com
Re: [9fans] Dell E4300?
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 allowed the kernel to use the e820 scan that 9load-e820 uses instead of using reamode itself. this may not help, but it's a good guess, anway. your machine appears to be crashing during the e820 scan. also, I also tried booting from Erik's atom iso, but don't get very far. eg: PBS1 Plan 9 from Bell Labs ELCR: 0CA0 pcirouting: south bridge 10de, 0260 not found aoepnp(nil) found 11 e820 entries Boot devices: fd0 fd1 boot from: It doesn't detect IDE controller, so no local disk/CD-ROM to boot from. fixed. sorry. - erik
Re: [9fans] Dell E4300?
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 pcirouting: BIOS workaround: PCI.0.29.0 at pin 1 link 4 irq 7 - 3 pcirouting: BIOS workaround: PCI.0.29.1 at pin 2 link 5 irq 1 - 11 pcirouting: BIOS workaround: PCI.0.29.7 at pin 1 link 4 irq 7 - 3 pcirouting: BIOS workaround: PCI.0.26.0 at pin 1 link 4 irq 7 - 3 pcirouting: BIOS workaround: PCI.0.26.1 at pin 2 link 5 irq 1 - 11 pcirouting: BIOS workaround: PCI.0.27.0 at pin 1 link 5 irq 1 - 11 #l0: i82567: 1000Mbps port 0xF6AE irq 10 tu 1514: 002170b7a113 sdata: blind probe 1f0 sdata: blind probe 170 #S/sdE: ahci ich port 0xe0020800: ss 1 ncs 31 coal 1 mport 3 led 1 clo 1 ems 1 #S/sdE: ich: sata-II with 4 ports 3536M memory: 256M kernel data, 3280M user, 3905M swap root is from (il, tcp, local)[local!bootdev/data]: sdE0: LLBA 488,397,168 sectors ST9250421ASG DE14 5TH05P1L [newdrive] sdE1: LBA 0 sectors TSSTcorp DVD+/-RW TS-U633A D200 [newdrive] 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 This is when attempting to use the boot Plan 9 from this CD option. Booting into the install Plan 9... option loads the installer. I'm installing now and will post the results. Thanks again!! -Ben winmail.dat
[9fans] Blogger tools
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, and my optional shell script driven fs /n/sources/contrib/maht/blogger You'll need bichued's python which is now a contrib the day after I worked out how to install it from source but the product of that was wanting better blogging tools : Matt
Re: [9fans] Dell E4300?
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 rebuild the kernel as it appears on the 9atom cd? Thanks again!! -Ben winmail.dat
Re: [9fans] Dell E4300?
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 original post, which should answer your questions. http://9fans.net/archive/2009/08/359 interestingly, googling for this with site:9fans.net/archive/2009/08 PAT returns nothing. - erik
[9fans] vga and vmware
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 highres screen. Anyone know whats going on here? - panic: kernel fault: bad address pc=0xf01eb43e addr=0xe03c panic: kernel fault: bad address pc=0xf01eb43e addr=0xe03c acid points to libmemdraw/line.c:351 at 1024x768x aux/vga -p says: vga-attr: vid=0x15AD vga-attr: did=0x0405 vga misc E3 vga feature 00 vga sequencer03 01 0F 00 0A vga crt A3 7F 88 9A 86 1A 24 FD - 00 60 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 29 FF 80 60 03 04 A3 - FF vga graphics 00 00 00 00 00 50 05 0F - FF vga attribute00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 - 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F 41 FF 0F 00 00 vga virtual 0 0 vga panning off vga vm a b 0 3489660928 vga apz 134217728 vga linear 1 vmware ID9002 vmware Enable0001 vmware Width 0400 vmware Height0300 vmware MaxWidth 0938 vmware MaxHeight 06ea vmware Depth 0018 vmware Bpp 0020 vmware PseudoColor vmware RedMask 00ff vmware GreenMask ff00 vmware BlueMask 00ff vmware Bpl 1000 vmware FbStart d000 vmware FbOffset vmware FbMaxSize 0800 vmware FbSize0030 vmware Cap 001fc3e2 vmware MemStart d800 vmware MemSize 0020 vmware ConfigDone0001 vmware Sync 0001 vmware Busy vmware GuestID 5010 vmware CursorID 0001 vmware CursorX 02bf vmware CursorY 00bd vmware CursorOn 0001 vmware HostBpp 0020 vmware chan x8r8g8b8 vmware depth 32 vmware linear Tim Newsham http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/
Re: [9fans] laptop install woes
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 20:12, mattmaht-9f...@maht0x0r.net 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://www.arkview.com/eshop/goods.php?id=29 It's a USB 2.0 adapter with the Asix A88178 controller. If it's of interest, I'll let everyone know how it works. - jamie
[9fans] copying a venti
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 was non operational. Is there anything more to setting up a bloom filter on a venti beyond adding a bloom /dev/sdC0/bloom to the venti config and formatting the partion with venti/fmtbloom before starting venti for the first time? Also, I have since discoverd the venti/copy command which looks to be exactly what I should be using, but how do I generate a score to copy the whole venti tree? Thanks, -Steve
Re: [9fans] vga and vmware
2009/8/16 Tim Newsham news...@lava.net: 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 highres screen. Anyone know whats going on here? For what it's worth, I'm getting essentially the same in ESXi with anything over 640x480x8 --dho
[9fans] 9fans.net/archive/ google index
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 very old posts are often note found with google's search. Anybody have an idea?
Re: [9fans] vga and vmware
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 0x3c mapped. Enough for 1024x768x4 bytes but not enoug hfor 1280x1024x4 bytes. I patched vgavmware.c line 179 to allocate 2*vmrd(vm, Rfbsize) instead of vmrd(vm, Rfbsize) and now I'm able to go into 1280x1024x8 mode. This is obviously just a hack, I don't know what a real solution would be (is it possible that the hardware register returns a different size after changing the mode?) Tim Newsham http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/
Re: [9fans] HP: Printing with the Illiterate
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?
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. 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? so, while i recommend that the contrib packages be used instead, after some thought and a few hrs of quality time removing half-finished bits, i packaged up the source used to build the 9atom kernels. ftp://ftp.quanstro.net/other/kernel.mkfs.bz2 to extract to the current directory bunzip2 kernel.mkfs.bz2 | disk/mext -d . if anyone objects to this being out there, i'll just remove it. off the top of my head, this kernel has the following little bits in addition to tje contrib packages: - jumbo frames, used with aoe (#l0/ether0/mtu), - /dev/cputemp on modern amd and intel processors, - kbd led control, repluggable ps/2 mice, cec console server, - console on non-onboard serial lines, turning serial console on/off, - pat, - /dev/nomp (mp irqs off), and /dev/mpirq (irqs turned on), the kernel you build will *still* be a little different than mine because of some changes to libauthsrv i made. these differences are in the patch readnvram that allow nvram to be on any sd device. this is particularly useful for ahci laptops that may have sdE2 (cdrom) and sdE3 (hd). while they could have been added to the big array in libauthsrv.c/nvram, i found it hard to manage. - erik
