Re: [9fans] SATA inst: some progress

2009-08-11 Thread cej
Thank you very much, Erik! ++pac -Original Message- i can reproduce this problem but haven't yet figured out what's going on, yet. i think it's my error due to some junk sneaking onto cd. i'm working on it. - erik winmail.dat

Re: [9fans] Unexpected 8c warning message

2009-08-11 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:01:06 -0700 James Tomaschke ja...@orcasystems.com wrote: What about, i = 0; do { SD = SDList[i++]; ... } while(i2); I was about to suggest something similar. I'm actually trying to avoid using for(;;) altogether which may seem odd to some but I just

[9fans] SATA inst. finally succeeded!

2009-08-11 Thread cej
WOW! With the new cdimage from Eric's ftp://ftp.quanstro.net/other/9atom.iso.bz2, the install friom sdE1 was s smooth! Almost just hitting 'Enter' key all the time ;-) A big THANKYOU, Eric! After first login I got some 'black' messages, however: sdE0: i/o error 5...@4,461,520 fossil:

[9fans] oh, no! (again)

2009-08-11 Thread cej
Sadly, I was too optimistic when SATA install succeeded... :-( This is a report of error messages I've got while booting new system on (and from) sdE0: sdiahci: drive 0 in state ready after 0 resets # SATA HD with Plan 9 system on it sdiahci: drive 1 won't come up; in state new after 10

Re: [9fans] oh, no! (again)

2009-08-11 Thread erik quanstrom
i'll be working on this today. you are unfortunately running and old kernel which is causing trouble. (as noted by fernanbolando.) this is my fault for building a bogus iso. - erik

Re: [9fans] oh, no! (again)

2009-08-11 Thread erik quanstrom
sdiahci: drive 0 in state ready after 0 resets # SATA HD with Plan 9 system on it that's good. i hope i've corrected the debug prints. in this case drive n is sdEn. sdiahci: drive 1 won't come up; in state new after 10 resets # SATA DVD sdE1 waitready: [new] task=50 sstat=113 sdE1

Re: [9fans] [limbo] I tried keyring, but it was the wrong number

2009-08-11 Thread matt
Charles Forsyth wrote: with a zero modulus (which suggests the key wasn't unpacked correctly). my deliberate mistake (it won't be using rsaencrypt but rsadecrypt) happened to highlight the actual problem, which is that strtosk shouldn't accept a string that looks to me (if not to it)

Re: [9fans] oh, no! (again)

2009-08-11 Thread erik quanstrom
First of all, thank you very much for your work, Eric ! you're welcome. unfortunately, so far we haven't made any progress. this is a jmicron bug. i haven't yet had in my possession a jmicron controller, so this will be interesting, but the new driver does have code to work around

[9fans] Plan 9 hg with private repositories

2009-08-11 Thread John Floren
Hi So I'm trying to clone a private repository I just created on bitbucket. This is what I see: jerq% hg clone https://username@bitbucket.org/username/repo/ destination directory: repo http authorization required realm: Bitbucket.org HTTP user: username abort: could not import module msvcrt! If

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 hg with private repositories

2009-08-11 Thread Russ Cox
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:37 AM, John Florenslawmas...@gmail.com wrote: Hi So I'm trying to clone a private repository I just created on bitbucket. This is what I see: jerq% hg clone https://username@bitbucket.org/username/repo/ destination directory: repo http authorization required

Re: [9fans] oh, no! (again)

2009-08-11 Thread erik quanstrom
i don't know where it's getting the 9pcf that it's putting in 9fat. it doesn't appear to be the same as /386/9pcf from the cd. (there's only one.) as soon as i figure that out, this will probablly all work. okay. the cd was rolled correctly, but i discovered a potential source of

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 hg with private repositories

2009-08-11 Thread John Floren
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:37 AM, John Florenslawmas...@gmail.com wrote: Hi So I'm trying to clone a private repository I just created on bitbucket. This is what I see: jerq% hg clone https://username@bitbucket.org/username/repo/ destination directory: repo http authorization required

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 hg with private repositories

2009-08-11 Thread Jeff Sickel
By the way, I realized that hg on Windows file systems does not like the following files: bin/ bin/ Clone/pull work fine. You just can't successfully update to actually get the bits into a working system. -jas On Aug 11, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Russ Cox r...@swtch.com wrote: On Tue,

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 hg with private repositories

2009-08-11 Thread John Floren
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Russ Coxr...@swtch.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:37 AM, John Florenslawmas...@gmail.com wrote: Hi So I'm trying to clone a private repository I just created on bitbucket. This is what I see: jerq% hg clone

Re: [9fans] oh, no! (again)

2009-08-11 Thread David Leimbach
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:57 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: i don't know where it's getting the 9pcf that it's putting in 9fat. it doesn't appear to be the same as /386/9pcf from the cd. (there's only one.) as soon as i figure that out, this will probablly all work.

Re: [9fans] oh, no! (again)

2009-08-11 Thread erik quanstrom
When I download this ISO, it gets to what appears to be the last byte then aborts. i tried this and it works for me. in the interest of time, and not further overloading my dsl line, i downloaded over the local interface, and not going out through the intertubes. if you were downloading

Re: [9fans] 9base-3

2009-08-11 Thread Lawrence E. Bakst
I only want to point out that OS X has had an option for case sensitive versions of the HFS+ file system for some time now. See the Volume Format popup under the Erase tab of the Disk Utility program. I have used it for untaring of linux and plan9 source code. It seems to work and I don't

[9fans] inaccurate etheroq accounting

2009-08-11 Thread erik quanstrom
i was looking to add bytes transmited to /net/ether?/stats accounting but was derailed because the existing accounting seems inaccurate. i'm pretty sure that etheroq can be called concurrently on the same ether, so doesn't that make the outpackets inaccurate at high packet rates on an mp machine?

Re: [9fans] oh, no! (again)

2009-08-11 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:25 AM, erik quanstromquans...@quanstro.net wrote: When I download this ISO, it gets to what appears to be the last byte then aborts. i tried this and it works for me.  in the interest of time, and not further overloading my dsl line, i downloaded over the local

Re: [9fans] oh, no! (again)

2009-08-11 Thread erik quanstrom
last 2 lines says Boot devices: fd0 ether0 boot from: I will investigate further. judging from past email, i'm guessing that your ide device is 27c4, which was missing from 9load. i put up a corrected cd. if you can ftpfs from your mostly-installed machine and get just 9load.bz2,

Re: [9fans] Unexpected 8c warning message

2009-08-11 Thread James Tomaschke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: I just don't like parsing a for statement, it's rarely clear and usually ugly to my eyes. Writing a parser to parse a for statement is slightly more involved as well. However I was commenting on how the compiler seems

[9fans] Acme niceties

2009-08-11 Thread Micah Stetson
One thing I like about acme is it doesn't present me with little annoyances I must learn to work around. Instead I find little niceties like this: I was editing an over sized tag in a way that would cause it to shrink, leaving my mouse pointer outside. But acme nicely warped the pointer so it

Re: [9fans] yet another installation guide

2009-08-11 Thread Corey
Thank you Erik for your review - very much appreciated! I have integrated your suggestions (plus some further general enhancements and optimizations) into another draft version that I will upload shortly. May I solicit just one more bit of feedback from you? In the 'Conventions' section, I

Re: [9fans] yet another installation guide

2009-08-11 Thread Corey
On Monday 10 August 2009 22:37:38 John Floren wrote: On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:34 PM, erik quanstromquans...@quanstro.net wrote: step 17. it's a good idea to always leave a 9fat menu around on your auth server. if you screw a kernel up, you'll really be proud of your self for it! -

Re: [9fans] yet another installation guide

2009-08-11 Thread John Floren
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Coreyco...@bitworthy.net wrote: On Monday 10 August 2009 22:37:38 John Floren wrote: On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:34 PM, erik quanstromquans...@quanstro.net wrote: step 17. it's a good idea to always leave a 9fat menu around on your auth server. if you screw

Re: [9fans] yet another installation guide

2009-08-11 Thread erik quanstrom
authdomain - The authentication domain name used for the auth services your server will be supplying. it's not a domain name. often people make the authentication domain the same as their dns domain, since we now live in an ip world. but it's just a text token. no heirarchy. no partial

[9fans] audio standards -- too many to choose from

2009-08-11 Thread Tim Newsham
I'm looking over the audio device formats because I would like to make a service that is interoperable with the existing services and much to my dismay there are several different formats: - plan9 audio(3) with audio,volume,audiostat - plan9 usb(4) with audio,volume,audioctl,audioin -

Re: [9fans] yet another installation guide

2009-08-11 Thread Bruce Ellis
Cinap and Brucee's guide ... Arrive back home to find a fried Auth server. Curse. A standard here, due to HST, is four (and only four) F*cks, in quick succesion, getting louder and higher in pitch. Drag the bastard into the workshop and completely butcher it and a standby clunker and rebuild it.

Re: [9fans] audio standards -- too many to choose from

2009-08-11 Thread erik quanstrom
- Is there any interest in unifying the existing audio formats? - If so, is anyone interested in bouncing around ideas of what this format should look like? this is probablly super obvious. but as one as you pick a cannonical format as is the plan 9 custom (like for character sets, images,

Re: [9fans] audio standards -- too many to choose from

2009-08-11 Thread erik quanstrom
Instead of writing translators I'd rather pick a single convention that seems the most suitable and fixup the other implementations and clients to fall in line with those conventions. My biggest question is is it worth my time? If I spend time unifying the various implementations, will they

Re: [9fans] audio standards -- too many to choose from

2009-08-11 Thread Tim Newsham
i didn't mean translating from one /dev/audio to the next. i ment dealing with azalia audio vs. ac97 vs. soundblaster. and ogg/vorbis vs. mp3 vs pem vs. *law. I agree here. I envision a separate codec server that sits on top of an audio server and encapsulates a bunch of this stuff. It would

Re: [9fans] yet another installation guide

2009-08-11 Thread Charles Forsyth
Soldering iron (nice old temperature controlled Weller) breaks down (never heard of)! that's amazing.

Re: [9fans] Using Guide Files

2009-08-11 Thread 6o205zd02
On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 15:35 +0200, Rudolf Sykora rudolf.sykora-at-gmail.com |9fans| wrote: I can have that '|fmt -w 72' anywhere in any window, but other than where my text is. I ensure I have 'Edit' in the tag line of the text window. I highlight the text I want be formatted. I go to the

Re: [9fans] audio standards -- too many to choose from

2009-08-11 Thread ron minnich
It would be nice to do plan 9 audio if only to show people how it can be done. Anyone who deals with audio on linux knows how not to do it; but it's probably very hard to get it right. I know I could do no better. It would be nice, I think, to do it out of the kernel ... still better to do it in

Re: [9fans] Using Guide Files

2009-08-11 Thread Jason Catena
Given how useful and important it is to have Edit in the tag of text windows, is there some reason that it isn't there automatically? Probably to avoid temptation for files you shouldn't, and see at a glance which files you edited and saved (since the dirty bit will be clear).        thanks,

Re: [9fans] Acme niceties

2009-08-11 Thread Rob Pike
It wasn't me with this exact feature but I'll take credit for moving the mouse where you want it. Sam did it with its menus, but Acme took it much farther. I like it a lot and I appreciate your noticing. (Did you ever notice it puts it back when it's done? Error window pops up, mouse moves

Re: [9fans] Using Guide Files

2009-08-11 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Aug 11 23:18:02 EDT 2009, jason.cat...@gmail.com wrote: Given how useful and important it is to have Edit in the tag of text windows, is there some reason that it isn't there automatically? Probably to avoid temptation for files you shouldn't, and see at a glance which files you

Re: [9fans] Acme niceties

2009-08-11 Thread erik quanstrom
(Did you ever notice it puts it back when it's done? Error window pops up, mouse moves there; delete the window, mouse moves back.) worth one smile per day, after all these years. - erik

Re: [9fans] audio standards -- too many to choose from

2009-08-11 Thread erik quanstrom
It would be nice, I think, to do it out of the kernel ... still better to do it in a way that makes it easy to adopt new audio formats without having to rip out the guts each time and start over -- which seems to be the linux problem. i'm just glad they don't do this with disks. we have scsi

Re: [9fans] yet another installation guide

2009-08-11 Thread Bruce Ellis
there are photos ... don't know where. it was lucky that it was warmish winter night. built a nice fire and slept for a few hours around it in t-shirt, shorts, sandals. we did have my travel lapdog but it was obvious that coffee was in order ... and no work in a national park! brucee On Wed,

Re: [9fans] audio standards -- too many to choose from

2009-08-11 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Aug 11, 2009, at 7:07 PM, Tim Newsham wrote: i didn't mean translating from one /dev/audio to the next. i ment dealing with azalia audio vs. ac97 vs. soundblaster. and ogg/vorbis vs. mp3 vs pem vs. *law. I agree here. I envision a separate codec server that sits on top of an audio server

Re: [9fans] audio standards -- too many to choose from

2009-08-11 Thread Russ Cox
It's hard to do the low-level hardware stuff outside the kernel. It's possible, but it's a lot easier inside. Just keep the inside simple. I've done audio on a handful of operating systems and all I ever want to do with the card is set it up to play X kHz 16-bit little-endian PCM stereo and then

Re: [9fans] Acme niceties

2009-08-11 Thread David Leimbach
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:24 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: (Did you ever notice it puts it back when it's done? Error window pops up, mouse moves there; delete the window, mouse moves back.) worth one smile per day, after all these years. ☺ - erik

Re: [9fans] audio standards -- too many to choose from

2009-08-11 Thread Charles Forsyth
... Inferno's implementation of mp3 in the kernel device file ... it does?

Re: [9fans] 9base-3

2009-08-11 Thread Anthony Sorace
Lawrence E. Bakstm...@iridescent.org wrote: // I only want to point out that OS X has had an option for case sensitive // versions of the HFS+ file system for some time now. // ...It seems to work and I don't think there is much downside to using it, // although I am not sure I would format my

Re: [9fans] audio standards -- too many to choose from

2009-08-11 Thread Charles Forsyth
we have scsi and ata. and that's enough for me. that's more than enough for me.

Re: [9fans] audio standards -- too many to choose from

2009-08-11 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Aug 11, 2009, at 9:25 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: May be its better to call this latency, since we can all appreciate some of the shortcomings that 9P has when it comes to it. i think you're drawing the wrong conclusion from a too-abstract view of the facts. My ears begged to differ ;-)

Re: [9fans] audio standards -- too many to choose from

2009-08-11 Thread Tim Newsham
I'm not sure either latency or RT is proper terminology here. But I believe what I meant was clear: when you need overall latency to be around 5ms you start to notice 9P. It sounds like you have a specific app in mind, and a real-time one at that. If you're using your audio device for live

Re: [9fans] audio standards -- too many to choose from

2009-08-11 Thread Tim Newsham
I've done audio on a handful of operating systems and all I ever want to do with the card is set it up to play X kHz 16-bit little-endian PCM stereo and then control the volume. The rest can be done from user space. This is exactly what Plan 9's audio driver already does, and I wish the others

Re: [9fans] audio standards -- too many to choose from

2009-08-11 Thread Anthony Sorace
i think russ has it exactly right: keep the kernel driver as simple as is practical, do whatever else you want in user space. for /dev/audio, i wouldn't suggest anything beyond plan 9's audio(3) as is. i'd suggest some cleanup of the surround (kill /dev/volume, rationalize /dev/audioctl), but the

Re: [9fans] audio standards -- too many to choose from

2009-08-11 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Aug 11, 2009, at 10:10 PM, Tim Newsham wrote: I'm not sure either latency or RT is proper terminology here. But I believe what I meant was clear: when you need overall latency to be around 5ms you start to notice 9P. It sounds like you have a specific app in mind, and a real-time one at

Re: [9fans] audio standards -- too many to choose from

2009-08-11 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Aug 11, 2009, at 10:15 PM, Tim Newsham wrote: The simplicity is definitely attractive in its own right, and I'll consider it. However, the devices do provide hardware support for other formats which do require some work to convert. mu-law and a-law come to mind.. In all my life doing

Re: [9fans] audio standards -- too many to choose from

2009-08-11 Thread Anthony Sorace
Tim Newshamnews...@lava.net wrote: // Yah, this format doesnt come up that often.. perhaps its not // worth the effort, but then again the ability to switch a device's // encoding isnt very much work either...  About as hard as // changing the sampling rate or turning stereo on and off... i'd