Re: [9fans] aux/vga -m vesa with pccpuf kernel?

2011-01-20 Thread David du Colombier
You simply forgot to bind some devices into /dev in your cpurc. See termrc as an example. +cur has nothing to do with that, it is the hardware cursor. -- David du Colombier

Re: [9fans] aux/vga -m vesa with pccpuf kernel?

2011-01-20 Thread Stanley Lieber
> Would placing +cur in the next column after vgavesa in the file > /sys/src/9/pc/pccpuf (and recompiling) reenable the vesa driver > for this kernel? Hm, it looks like it is at least being built, already: ls -l |grep vesa --rw-rw-r-- M 3233 glenda sys 6812 Jan 18 05:02 vgavesa.8 --rw-rw-r--

[9fans] aux/vga -m vesa with pccpuf kernel?

2011-01-20 Thread Stanley Lieber
The following settings worked with my system during install and continued to work after rebooting as a terminal: aux/vga -m vesa -l 1024x768x32 Upon compiling pccpuf and rebooting as a standalone auth/cpu server, vesa is no longer accepted: cpu% aux/vga -m vesa -l 1024x768x32 mkvbe: '/dev/realmo

Re: [9fans] line wrapping

2011-01-20 Thread smiley
(Following up on a thread of the same subject discussed in Feb 2006...) One other thing that's presently driving me batty is the line wrapping in wikifs. When I save a file to wikifs with lines longer than about 70 characters, wikifs tries to fill and word-wrap those paragraphs. Unfortunately, wh

Re: [9fans] help wanted: Acme dump file format & hello from a 9oobie

2011-01-20 Thread 6o205zd02
That drove me crazy in plan9port too. I sent a series of patches to address the various issues as I discovered them to Russ Cox and he applied them to the plan9port tree. I don't know if they all got transferred to plan9 or not (I rarely have an opportunity or need to use real plan9). You m

[9fans] help wanted: Acme dump file format & hello from a 9oobie

2011-01-20 Thread smiley
Hello! I'm new to Plan 9. I just performed my first install last weekend. [pause for applause] So far, there are some things that I LOVE about the OS, some things I'm still getting used to, and some things that are just driving me batty! Like in any new relationship, I am trying to move things f

Re: [9fans] uncommon sights

2011-01-20 Thread andrey mirtchovski
> Almost brought the host system to a halt. well, rc has always been a very powerful shell :)

Re: [9fans] uncommon sights

2011-01-20 Thread Stanley Lieber
This was in OpenBSD. Rc went a little out of control when an Inferno emu session aborted, but the script it was launched from stayed in memory. Almost brought the host system to a halt. -sl

Re: [9fans] uncommon sights

2011-01-20 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:44 PM, David Leimbach wrote: > yeah it's so easy to make screenshots :-) but then you have to pick up all the glass shards. That's harder. ron

Re: [9fans] uncommon sights

2011-01-20 Thread Jacob Todd
Cat /dev/screen>file Or something like that. Not hard at all.

Re: [9fans] uncommon sights

2011-01-20 Thread David Leimbach
yeah it's so easy to make screenshots :-) On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:54 AM, andrey mirtchovski wrote: > pics or it didn't happen :) > > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Stanley Lieber > wrote: > > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE WAIT TIMECPU > COMMAND > > 16051 sl

Re: [9fans] uncommon sights

2011-01-20 Thread andrey mirtchovski
pics or it didn't happen :) On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Stanley Lieber wrote: >  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE     WAIT      TIME    CPU COMMAND >  16051 sl        63    0  480K  356K run       -         7:25 71.04% rc >  2724 sl         2    0  489M  503M sleep     poll    247:00

[9fans] uncommon sights

2011-01-20 Thread Stanley Lieber
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE WAIT TIMECPU COMMAND 16051 sl630 480K 356K run - 7:25 71.04% rc 2724 sl 20 489M 503M sleep poll247:00 11.47% firefox-bin -sl

Re: [9fans] silly question - timezone

2011-01-20 Thread erik quanstrom
> Hi, > > Where is /env timezone set from the contents of /adm/timezone/local? ./cmd/init.c:58:cpenv("/adm/timezone/local", "#e/timezone"); - erik

[9fans] silly question - timezone

2011-01-20 Thread Steve Simon
Hi, Where is /env timezone set from the contents of /adm/timezone/local? I have looked where I expect it it be (cpurc, termrc, profile) but cannot find it, I also grepped in the kernel source and found nothing. how does it happen? -Steve

Re: [9fans] plan9 go output faults on 9vx with rfork

2011-01-20 Thread David Leimbach
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:59 PM, ron minnich wrote: > OK, Pavel sent me a nice piece of code that implements cmpswap using a > gcc trick. I did not want to use the trick for a few reasons, and > thought to use futex instead, as it seemed appropriate. Weirdly > enough, I can not find a simple imp

[9fans] vesa 2560x1600?

2011-01-20 Thread erik quanstrom
does anyone know of a chipset/graphics card that has a 2560x1600 vesa mode? - erik