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

2009-08-15 Thread Akshat Kumar
Speaking of fonts in Acme, using the default, I spent extra amount of time tracking down a bug in my gs(1) source, which was the mix-up between -lijs and -Iijs. Apparently 'I' is shorter than 'l' by some portion of a pixel. how could I possibly miss that ak P.S.: This isn't Acme's fault - it's

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

2009-08-15 Thread Akshat Kumar
However, I think you need the ijs driver, which is not built by default (it probably should be). To enable it, edit /sys/src/cmd/gs/mkfile to add ijs to the device list and then rebuild using the instructions in the mkfile. I thought I'd built gs(1) this way with proper ijs support, but `{gs

[9fans] laptop install woes

2009-08-15 Thread Jamie Gavahan
I'm trying to get my circa 2006 laptop working with Plan 9. Its a Gateway MX3414 with: North Bridge: NVIDIA C51MV South Bridge: MCP51 - ignored NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 graphics - works fine with 1024x768x16 VESA NVIDIA MCP51 ethernet controller - not detected NVIDIA MCP51 PATA controller - buggy?

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

2009-08-15 Thread hiro
Thanks, very interesting read. I think he lied, he was perfectly aware of how the piracy issue would turn out, and he had it all planned :D On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Skip Tavakkolian9...@9netics.com wrote: an old interview with some relevance

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

2009-08-15 Thread Steve Simon
re: /etc/ssh/sshd_config on unix to support sshv1 see: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Connecting_to_other_OSes/index.html -Steve

[9fans] Dell E4300?

2009-08-15 Thread Benjamin Huntsman
Anyone here had a chance to try a Dell E4300? It's a nice, compact system, but it really refuses to boot Plan 9: 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 =

Re: [9fans] Dell E4300?

2009-08-15 Thread erik quanstrom
Anyone here had a chance to try a Dell E4300? It's a nice, compact system, but it really refuses to boot Plan 9: 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 =

Re: [9fans] Dell E4300?

2009-08-15 Thread Benjamin Huntsman
i'll add this southbridge to my cd. this will definately not hurt. could you send me pci output? if you use lspci from linux make sure to use -vn so the vid/did appear. the descriptive strings are fairly useless. Sorry, I don't use Linux much. This machine currently runs OpenSolaris. Below

[9fans] Matrox DualHead2Go

2009-08-15 Thread matt
Hi, I don't quite know what I'm asking, I'm just fishing for responses :) I got a Matrox DualHead2Go which splits a vga signal across multiple monitors. Atm. I have it driving two screen with a duplicated image but if you supply it one of these modes : edid 2048x76...@60hz

Re: [9fans] laptop install woes

2009-08-15 Thread matt
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

Re: [9fans] file server?

2009-08-15 Thread Adrian Tritschler
2009/8/14 Lyndon Nerenberg lyn...@orthanc.ca: This is what we do at Sandia. We have one machine which serves cpu/auth/file, but the actual Venti disks are in a Coraid connected via GigE. The fossil disk is in the server, but if it dies we can just build a new one. Which reminds me of an