[9fans] About usb mouse wheel

2010-02-25 Thread Adriano Verardo
Hi, all. The wheel of all USB mice I purchased in the last year is not managed by Plan9. All of them work perfectly with FreeBSD and Windows. No problem with Plan9 using the PS/2 interface + adaptor, but notebooks have only USB ports. The products on the (italian) marketplace change frequently.

Re: [9fans] problem using a vera font in rio

2010-02-25 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 26 Feb 2010, at 02:43, erik quanstrom wrote: it could be a general solution - fontsrv just spits out ordinary font files that you could use on plan 9. ttf2subf is only about 150 lines of code, once liberated from libfreetype. I am curious why the difference in rendering. in your screensho

Re: [9fans] problem using a vera font in rio

2010-02-25 Thread erik quanstrom
> it could be a general solution - fontsrv just spits out > ordinary font files that you could use on plan 9. ttf2subf is only about 150 lines of code, once liberated from libfreetype. > > I am curious why the difference in rendering. in your screenshot 't', > > 'f' and 'g' look especially blurry

Re: [9fans] plan9 kernel on genode?

2010-02-25 Thread Corey
On Thursday 25 February 2010 17:30:16 erik quanstrom wrote: > > kernel and there doesn't need to be one. By using Genode, applications > > developed for one kernel can be ported to all the other supported > > platforms with a simple recompile. > > this sort of thing is built for a knee-jerk reacti

Re: [9fans] plan9 kernel on genode?

2010-02-25 Thread erik quanstrom
> kernel and there doesn't need to be one. By using Genode, applications > developed for one kernel can be ported to all the other supported platforms > with a simple recompile. this sort of thing is built for a knee-jerk reaction. ... which i will happily provide. ah, the chicago crain techni

[9fans] plan9 kernel on genode?

2010-02-25 Thread Corey
Anyone been watching the genode os framework? () It already supports Linux, NOVA, Codezero, L4/Fiasco, L4ka::Pistachio and OKL4 as base platforms/kernels - I don't know (as I'm sure I'm not qualified to make an assessment), but intuition tells me there might be some interesting possibilities were

Re: [9fans] problem using a vera font in rio

2010-02-25 Thread andrey mirtchovski
> an alternative is to use the p9p fontsrv to generate fonts. > here's acme with Calibri on OS X. that may be a good solution for p9p's acme. i admit i hadn't looked at it. > the glyphs are a little more washed out than in your > screen shot, but maybe it's easier to fix that than to > keep worki

[9fans] RFC: 9p file system with queue semantics (as in message queues)

2010-02-25 Thread Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
Hello all! In what follows I would like to ask for your comments regarding a 9p file server that exports a file system with a (message) queue semantics. (My major interest here is more about the actual semantic itself, and less about the implementation details. But all comments are welcome

Re: [9fans] problem using a vera font in rio

2010-02-25 Thread erik quanstrom
> i want pretty fonts in acme, but i'm not sure ttf2subf will get us > there without major work (and a new port of the freetype libraries). i've been running ttf2subf with the freetype appendage cut off. i'm using the system library directly from p9p. that seems to work better than porting the wh

Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help

2010-02-25 Thread hiro
that mus be a miracle On 2/25/10, Purple_Q wrote: > Sorry Erik, that particular message was intended for John. > I had mentioned that changing sata controller settings in my bios from > ahci to ide allowed plan9 to see my hard drive but killed FreeBSD. He > asked at what point in the boot sequenc

Re: [9fans] Factotum discrepancy

2010-02-25 Thread erik quanstrom
> makes it sound like the -a option takes precedence > over cs and ndb.  But the code for _autdial() in > util.c looks for cs first and if it's there, the > -a option is ignored.  (In p9p, -a seems to be ignored > altogether.) > > Which way should it be?  I'd prefer if -a took precedence, > but if

[9fans] Factotum discrepancy

2010-02-25 Thread Brian L. Stuart
There appears to be a disagreement between the factotum man page and its actual behavior regarding the -a option.  In the man page, the wording: -a   supplies the address of the authentication server to      use.  Without this option, it will attempt to find an      authentication server by queryi

Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help

2010-02-25 Thread Purple_Q
Sorry Erik, that particular message was intended for John. I had mentioned that changing sata controller settings in my bios from ahci to ide allowed plan9 to see my hard drive but killed FreeBSD. He asked at what point in the boot sequence this was happening, so I posted it to show him. I can't g

Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help

2010-02-25 Thread Purple_Q
Oops. My own trigger finger, sorry. Yeah, the drive is just fine if set in the bios to ahci, but plan9 can't see it. If I set it to IDE, plan9 can see it but it gives BSD the errors you see in the image. Weird. On Feb 25, 7:28 am, quans...@quanstro.net (erik quanstrom) wrote: > On Thu Feb 25 07:

Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help

2010-02-25 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Feb 25 07:19:14 EST 2010, quans...@quanstro.net wrote: > On Thu Feb 25 06:29:21 EST 2010, bitpusher2...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hmm, might be slightly above my head (I don't know what a node is). > > That aside, the boot loader fires up fine, and it makes it to what I > > believe is near the en

Re: [9fans] What operating systems are the google guys using?

2010-02-25 Thread Peter A. Cejchan
> I haven't logged into a real Plan 9 system in many years, Oh, n!!! WHY?!? As a plain user, a non-techie, I use Plan 9 native as my firs OS on everyday basis... I log onto linux only for testing things that may be worth porting, and for compiling the c++ stuff... Please, do not let the

Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help

2010-02-25 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Feb 25 06:29:21 EST 2010, bitpusher2...@gmail.com wrote: > Hmm, might be slightly above my head (I don't know what a node is). > That aside, the boot loader fires up fine, and it makes it to what I > believe is near the end of the boot sequence in fact. ad0 is my hard > disk; > queuevonqu.co

Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help

2010-02-25 Thread Purple_Q
Hmm, might be slightly above my head (I don't know what a node is). That aside, the boot loader fires up fine, and it makes it to what I believe is near the end of the boot sequence in fact. ad0 is my hard disk; queuevonqu.com/bsderr.jpg My pardons if that's hard to read. Those messages at the bot

Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help

2010-02-25 Thread John Stalker
> I tried an experiment with both success and failure; > in my bios, I have an option to change "sata controller mode" from > achi to ide. I tried changing that and then the plan9 installer can > see my hard disk, however, the failure is that in that mode, I cannot > boot FreeBSD, it just freezes t

Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help

2010-02-25 Thread Purple_Q
Well, I tried those commands and it did me no justice. I don't know how to change the driver you speak of so I'm thinking i'll have to give up on getting native Plan9 onto this netbook. I tried an experiment with both success and failure; in my bios, I have an option to change "sata controller mod

Re: [9fans] sheevaplug port available

2010-02-25 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
That's great. no progress here so far on that front. It's still on my todo list but not on the top of the stack. If it's urgent for anyone, let me know. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:22 PM, wrote: > usb has advanced a little; we can see usb devices now but attempts to > read or write them hang.  I