[9fans] drawterm

2009-08-26 Thread Russ Cox
Drawterm used to live in a CVS repository at MIT. I have moved it to a Mercurial repository at Bitbucket. http://code.swtch.com/drawterm The old drawterm CVS repository is still there but will not be updated. http://swtch.com/drawterm will continue to have tar balls. Russ

[9fans] Acer with 9atom.iso: out of physical memory

2009-08-26 Thread Bela Valek
Hi Everybody, I try to install our favourite operating system on an Acer emachines E525 laptop. Installation succeeded with Erik's 9atom.iso, but I cannot boot. Here is the whole story: - 1. Plan 9 install CD (of Aug. 15): PBS1... Plan 9 from Bell Labs ELCR: 0C00 pcirouting: South Bridge 8086,

Re: [9fans] Acer with 9atom.iso: out of physical memory

2009-08-26 Thread erik quanstrom
PBS1... Plan 9 from Bell Labs ELCR: 0C00 pcirouting: South Bridge 8086, 2919 not found ...nd hangup both in IDE and AHCI mode. not even Ctrl+Alt+Del works. I suspect the buggy BIOS, but both Ubuntu 9.04 and WinXP worked (the latter only in IDE mode). nope this is standard ich*

Re: [9fans] Acer with 9atom.iso: out of physical memory

2009-08-26 Thread Bela Valek
i'll take a look at this. looks like a bug. the number of e820 entries is also curious. when its already installed, the system says at boot time: found 1 e820 entries what does /dev/swap say? - erik I checked with disk/prep in live CD mode, 9fat = 100 MB, nvram = 512 B, fossil = 1.44

Re: [9fans] Acer with 9atom.iso: out of physical memory

2009-08-26 Thread erik quanstrom
fossil reports 'out of physical memory' immediatelly when its mounting the partition. I cant get to take a look at /dev/swap. can you use the boot cd to modify plan9.ini to set *e820print=1 ? - erik

Re: [9fans] Acer with 9atom.iso: out of physical memory

2009-08-26 Thread Bela Valek
2009/8/26 erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net: fossil reports 'out of physical memory' immediatelly when its mounting the partition. I cant get to take a look at /dev/swap. can you use the boot cd to modify plan9.ini to set *e820print=1 ? - erik I tried it, nothing changed

Re: [9fans] Acer with 9atom.iso: out of physical memory

2009-08-26 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed Aug 26 08:07:15 EDT 2009, bval...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/26 erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net: fossil reports 'out of physical memory' immediatelly when its mounting the partition. I cant get to take a look at /dev/swap. can you use the boot cd to modify plan9.ini to set

Re: [9fans] Acer with 9atom.iso: out of physical memory

2009-08-26 Thread Bela Valek
it wasn't expected that anything would change. i was interested in the e820 output.  if you would send that along, that would be helpful. - erik Oh, sorry. The install disk wrote '54 e820', the installed system already writes '1 e820' without this line added.

Re: [9fans] inferno-list

2009-08-26 Thread Michaelian Ennis
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:55 PM, hiro23h...@googlemail.com wrote: Sorry for posting here, but I can't reach you inferno guys. I don't know whether it could be gmail's faults, tell me if I can help in any way.    inferno-l...@vitanuova.com Technical details of permanent failure: Google

Re: [9fans] inferno-list

2009-08-26 Thread erik quanstrom
Technical details of permanent failure: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the other server returned was: 554 554 5.7.1 rejected: SPF record does not match sender (state 15). Seems to be fine for me @ gmail (now anyway). the headers seemed to be truncated.

Re: [9fans] Acer with 9atom.iso: out of physical memory

2009-08-26 Thread erik quanstrom
Oh, sorry. The install disk wrote '54 e820', the installed system already writes '1 e820' without this line added. however, with the *e820print=1 line added to plan9.ini, we will see what memory range we're finding. that's what would be interesting. - erik

Re: [9fans] inferno-list

2009-08-26 Thread hiro
I wasn't doing anything special as far as I know. I was using the normal web interface. On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:54 PM, erik quanstromquans...@quanstro.net wrote: Technical details of permanent failure: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the other server returned

[9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-26 Thread erik quanstrom
it contains all the changes from the last 10 days. should fix all reported problems, except béla's. - erik

Re: [9fans] Possible bug in p9p venti?

2009-08-26 Thread J.R. Mauro
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:08 PM, erik quanstromquans...@quanstro.net wrote: Any chance this is related to the issues we discussed on #plan9? since not everyone who reads the list does irc, why don't you fill us in on the issues discussed on #plan9? - erik Sorry, forgot to crossreference

Re: [9fans] Kernel compile in Linuxemu

2009-08-26 Thread cinap_lenrek
fixed, try the latest version from sources. -- cinap ---BeginMessage--- Since I can't compile anything - let alone a kernel - in my Acer Aspire One, I decided to try compiling one under Linuxemu, with the hopes that I could then copy the resulting kernel modules back to the Acer and make use of

[9fans] acme column Paste, Cut, Snarf commands

2009-08-26 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Hello, in a newbie-guide.pdf www.quanstro.net/newbie-guide.pdf I read: Column Menu: Snarf --- Copy the selected text into the snarf buffer (from anywhere in the column). For me it doesn't work like that. For me _all_ column menu Snarf (Past, Cut) commands are equivalent irrespectively of the

Re: [9fans] inferno-list

2009-08-26 Thread Uriel
It is fine for some, it isn't for others. uriel On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Michaelian Ennismichaelian.en...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:55 PM, hiro23h...@googlemail.com wrote: Sorry for posting here, but I can't reach you inferno guys. I don't know whether it could be

Re: [9fans] ugly eqn/troff result

2009-08-26 Thread Rudolf Sykora
One more trial... Really nobody uses 'eqn' these days?... Thanks Ruda 2009/8/13 Rudolf Sykora rudolf.syk...@gmail.com: Hello everyone Why do I get an ugly result when trying to typeset (in file 'a') .EQ a + left ( A + B right ) .EN with eqn a | troff | dpost -f a.ps? I am getting an

Re: [9fans] inferno-list

2009-08-26 Thread hiro
And also for us it's still fine sometimes. One mail got through, but something is definitely broken. I'm not doing anything special... On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Urielurie...@gmail.com wrote: It is fine for some, it isn't for others. uriel On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Michaelian

Re: [9fans] inferno-list

2009-08-26 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed Aug 26 18:24:52 EDT 2009, 23h...@googlemail.com wrote: And also for us it's still fine sometimes. One mail got through, but something is definitely broken. I'm not doing anything special... it's plenty possible that gmail is sending mail from servers not listed in their spf list. it's

Re: [9fans] ugly eqn/troff result

2009-08-26 Thread erik quanstrom
Why do I get an ugly result when trying to typeset (in file 'a') .EQ a + left ( A + B right ) .EN with eqn a | troff | dpost -f a.ps? I am getting an equation in which the 'A+B' is significantly shifted downwards inside the (), so that the two pluses just don't line up...

Re: [9fans] acme column Paste, Cut, Snarf commands

2009-08-26 Thread erik quanstrom
in a newbie-guide.pdf www.quanstro.net/newbie-guide.pdf I read: Column Menu: Snarf --- Copy the selected text into the snarf buffer (from anywhere in the column). For me it doesn't work like that. For me _all_ column menu Snarf (Past, Cut) commands are equivalent irrespectively of

Re: [9fans] ugly eqn/troff result

2009-08-26 Thread Steve Simon
Really nobody uses 'eqn' these days?... I use it occasionally, I just don't know how to help you with your problem. -Steve

Re: [9fans] ugly eqn/troff result

2009-08-26 Thread Russ Cox
eqn has never been good at the precise layout of large equations. it's great that they look as good as they do. Really nobody uses 'eqn' these days?... more precisely, nobody uses eqn these days who is picky enough about where the + goes to take the time to fix it. russ

Re: [9fans] Getting printing to work over ethernet

2009-08-26 Thread geoff
The final `FIFO' in the scheduler column of /sys/lib/lp/devices has been optional for a while. Everybody uses FIFO now, so it's the default.

Re: [9fans] Getting printing to work over ethernet

2009-08-26 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed Aug 26 20:30:05 EDT 2009, ge...@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: The final `FIFO' in the scheduler column of /sys/lib/lp/devices has been optional for a while. Everybody uses FIFO now, so it's the default. is there a man page for those of us who are not quite following along with the format?

Re: [9fans] Using cwfs

2009-08-26 Thread Akshat Kumar
this sounds like a bug in usb/disk. usb/disk should be able to handle a sleeping drive without passing i/o errors up. That's probably a USB issue, yes. However, now, I've setup my drive not to go into sleep mode at all, but I see the following from earlier today: ... 89806 blocks queued for

Re: [9fans] Using cwfs

2009-08-26 Thread erik quanstrom
wrenread: error on w0(1691022): %r something's wrong here. %r never prints %r unless errstr is literaly %r. does your source match sources? where w0 is the disk itself. Note that the final message states 89805 blocks were copied, whereas initially 89806 blocks were queued - was the error