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 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

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 successfully

[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

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 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

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 allowed

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

[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: [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

[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

Re: [9fans] laptop install woes

2009-08-16 Thread Jamie Gavahan
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

[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

Re: [9fans] vga and vmware

2009-08-16 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
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

[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

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. I