Re: [9fans] file server?

2009-08-15 Thread Adrian Tritschler
2009/8/14 Lyndon Nerenberg : >> 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 often overlo

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

[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 clock=113.75

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. Bel

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 => 818807

Re: [9fans] laptop install woes

2009-08-15 Thread erik quanstrom
> > sorry. > > > > i did turn off probing legacy ports unless a recognized > > pci device was found.  this was paranoia on my part.  (i hope.) > > just trying to get past our sata drives with ide programming interface > > problem.  i've turned blind probing back on and will put out a new iso > > sh

[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 => 818807+1020832+47497

Re: [9fans] laptop install woes

2009-08-15 Thread Jamie Gavahan
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 12:34, erik quanstrom wrote: >> I also tried booting from Erik's atom iso, but don't get very far. eg: >> PBS1 >> Plan 9 from Bell Labs >> ELCR: 0CA0 >> pcirouting: south bridge 10de, 0260 not found >> aoepnp() >> found 11 e820 entries >> Boot devices: fd0 fd1 >> boot from:

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

2009-08-15 Thread Akshat Kumar
I appreciate the suggestions, and I'll definitely look into them when upgrades are in order. Making do with what we have, however, I can now successfully conversate with the printer, and initiate the print. But there is a problem: after the first line of output from the printer on the page, usb/p

Re: [9fans] laptop install woes

2009-08-15 Thread erik quanstrom
> I also tried booting from Erik's atom iso, but don't get very far. eg: > PBS1 > Plan 9 from Bell Labs > ELCR: 0CA0 > pcirouting: south bridge 10de, 0260 not found > aoepnp() > found 11 e820 entries > Boot devices: fd0 fd1 > boot from: > > It doesn't detect IDE controller, so no local disk/CD-ROM

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

2009-08-15 Thread J.R. Mauro
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Akshat Kumar wrote: > gs(1) compiled fine with ijs driver - I hope it doesn't > need to be updated as well. Thanks for the information, > Russ. > > I found Prof. Okamoto's page on HPIJS 1.5 > port: http://basalt.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp/plan9/s54.html > (binaries linke

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

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 Tavakkolian<9...@9netics.com> wrote: > an old interview with some relevance > > http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.0

[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? 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

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 t

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

2009-08-15 Thread Steve Simon
Ok, My memory from about 1982... first there was phillips who used 2 high speed, high linearity 14bit DACs in their CD players using 4 times oversampling - as they had no apropriate 16bit converters at the time; which gives near 16bit resolution. sony however developed a laser trimmed 16bit conve