[9fans] Plan 9 on the Acer Aspire One

2010-09-06 Thread Akshat Kumar
I tried installing Plan 9 on the Acer Aspire One, after having checked that I can boot into it via PXE. I used erik's 9atom2.iso. However, without having touched the mbr, when trying to boot off the disk, it simply hung after BIOS POST. Then, having tried disk/mbr -m /386/mbr /dev/sdD0/data

[9fans] Multiple auth servers

2010-09-06 Thread Akshat Kumar
I recently added an auth server to my network. For internal connections, my terminals connect directly to that auth server with the local domain (authdom=hetero). However, for incoming connections from remote clients (outside the local network), instead of using trampoline(1) to forward requests

[9fans] [plan9mod] Re: P9p on Fedora 12

2010-09-06 Thread Pavel Klinkovsky
I haven't found any resolution to Pavel's original problem, hence this email. I am sorry I forgot to write the solution here. As expected, the problem was between my keyboard and chair... ;-) After installing the packages libX11-devel, libXt-devel and libXext-devel, INSTALL produced the

Re: [9fans] plan 9 on the guruplug

2010-09-06 Thread Christian Neukirchen
leim...@gmail.com (David Leimbach) writes: # sheeva plug, openrd-client, guruplug and others Did anyone already try plan9 (or inferno?) on the Seagate Dockstar? These litte boxes are really cheap currently. -- Christian Neukirchen chneukirc...@gmail.com http://chneukirchen.org

[9fans] parallels and 9vx crash

2010-09-06 Thread prem
Hi All, I have this problem from the beginning, when I run Parallels install of Plan9 (or any other VM) and 9vx, my OSX 10.6.4 crashes. here are the details if at all anything makes sense, though it looks like parallels problem. Interval Since Last Panic Report: 809258

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on the Acer Aspire One

2010-09-06 Thread erik quanstrom
(yes, disk is at sdD0, and there are not enough BIOS options to change that) I get: Press a key to reboot that doesn't look exactly like anything that plan 9 prints. perhaps it printed one of these two messages? (Bad format or )?I/O error Press a key to reboot... if so,

[9fans] Sheevaplug - USB working? Just checking

2010-09-06 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
Just checking before I buy something; do the host-side USB ports work on the Sheevaplug? That's the ports you plug USB devices into, not the port you connect to a PC. I can never remember what the proper term is.

[9fans] Trouble Installing Plan on Acer Extensa 4220

2010-09-06 Thread vitaeviternus
Before I start typing Plan 9 boot output or lspci output, here is the weirdness: The Plan 9 iso image that I downloaded a couple days ago behaves strangely. When booting from the CD image on the CD, pccd.gz, Plan 9 recognizes my hard drive as sdE. When I boot from the floppy image, pcflop.gz,

Re: [9fans] Trouble Installing Plan on Acer Extensa 4220

2010-09-06 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Sep 6 11:08:11 EDT 2010, vitaeviter...@fastmail.fm wrote: Before I start typing Plan 9 boot output or lspci output, here is the weirdness: The Plan 9 iso image that I downloaded a couple days ago behaves strangely. When booting from the CD image on the CD, pccd.gz, Plan 9

Re: [9fans] Sheevaplug - USB working? Just checking

2010-09-06 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Sep 6 10:44:06 EDT 2010, eeke...@fastmail.fm wrote: Just checking before I buy something; do the host-side USB ports work on the Sheevaplug? That's the ports you plug USB devices into, yes. but life is not trouble-free: plug# /boot/usbd: /dev/usb/ep2.0: warning: device with short

Re: [9fans] Sheevaplug - USB working? Just checking

2010-09-06 Thread Nemo
Iirc, there's still work to be done to get them working fully and properly. But i may be mistaken. I remember I had to add support for kbin and mousein, as Erik points out. On Sep 6, 2010, at 5:22 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: On Mon Sep 6 10:44:06 EDT 2010,

Re: [9fans] Sheevaplug - USB working? Just checking

2010-09-06 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Nemo nemo.m...@gmail.com wrote: Iirc, there's still work to be done to get them working fully and  properly. But i may be mistaken. I remember I had to add support for kbin and mousein, as Erik points out. Well, here is the kind of hackathon type of think it

Re: [9fans] Sheevaplug - USB working? Just checking

2010-09-06 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 10:05 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: i like the idea.  unfortunately, iirc this problem hangs on specifications which we don't have.  so perhaps it would be better to attack a problem were we're not just guessing. I've come to the conclusion that where

Re: [9fans] Sheevaplug - USB working? Just checking

2010-09-06 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 10:26 AM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 10:05 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: i like the idea.  unfortunately, iirc this problem hangs on specifications which we don't have.  so perhaps it would be better to attack a problem

[9fans] iwp9 paper submission acknowledgments?

2010-09-06 Thread EBo
I submitted a draft of a paper a couple of days ago, and do not remember seeing any email acknowledgment. I've just resubmitted them and thought I would note not seeing the expected acknowledgments. EBo --

[9fans] page numbers on iwp9 papers

2010-09-06 Thread EBo
The submission guidelines for iwp9 requires no page numbers, but the troff macros provided automatically adds them. How do you shut them off? Aslo, is this going to be a problem for the proceedings? EBo --

Re: [9fans] Sheevaplug - USB working? Just checking

2010-09-06 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
it works for all usb disks i've tried but has never worked for Bluetooth devices. the last time i looked, i was left with a guess that the driver needed to support some unholy handshake with the built-in Transaction Translator; not sure if that's really the problem. Geoff and Nemo worked on

Re: [9fans] page numbers on iwp9 papers

2010-09-06 Thread geoff
Insert .rm CH somewhere before .TL to turn off page numbers.

Re: [9fans] Sheevaplug - USB working? Just checking

2010-09-06 Thread geoff
As the documentation says, the ARM ports are currently only CPU kernels. Mouse and keyboard support should be trivial to add and will come once (if) video is working on the Guruplug Display or OpenRD. This could take a long while, since the video controller is undocumented (there isn't even

Re: [9fans] P9p on Fedora 12

2010-09-06 Thread Russ Cox
I can confirm that: - P9p on Fedora 10 does not echo the input, - P9p on Fedora 12 (13) echoes the input. Are you using the latest version of 9term? cd $PLAN9 hg log -l 1 src/cmd/9term Russ

Re: [9fans] page numbers on iwp9 papers

2010-09-06 Thread EBo
.rm CH Thanks Geoff, that worked like a charm! EBo --

[9fans] other mouse buttons in drawterm on a one mouse button mac laptop under OS X

2010-09-06 Thread James Chapman
Hi, In drawterm middle-click is option-click and right-click is command-click. In OS X in general right click is ctrl-click and in plan9 under vmware fusion ctrl-click is right-click and command-click is middle-click. Is there any reason for this discrepancy and can it be easily changed? Best

Re: [9fans] Sheevaplug - USB working? Just checking

2010-09-06 Thread erik quanstrom
Mouse and keyboard support should be trivial to add and will come once (if) video is working on the Guruplug Display or OpenRD. This could take a long while, since the video controller is undocumented (there isn't even Linux driver source available). Until then, there's little point to

Re: [9fans] Sheevaplug - USB working? Just checking

2010-09-06 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 6 Sep 2010, at 6:55 pm, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: it works for all usb disks i've tried but has never worked for Bluetooth devices. well if it works for all usb disks it's worth my while getting one, not a sheevaplug as such, rather a seagate freeagent go dockstar which is currently €25

Re: [9fans] P9p on Fedora 12

2010-09-06 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 6 Sep 2010, at 9:08 pm, Russ Cox wrote: I can confirm that: - P9p on Fedora 10 does not echo the input, - P9p on Fedora 12 (13) echoes the input. Are you using the latest version of 9term? cd $PLAN9 hg log -l 1 src/cmd/9term Russ That reminds me, a p9p install in which 9term was not

Re: [9fans] P9p on Fedora 12

2010-09-06 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 6 Sep 2010, at 10:48 pm, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: On 6 Sep 2010, at 9:08 pm, Russ Cox wrote: I can confirm that: - P9p on Fedora 10 does not echo the input, - P9p on Fedora 12 (13) echoes the input. Are you using the latest version of 9term? cd $PLAN9 hg log -l 1 src/cmd/9term Russ

Re: [9fans] Sheevaplug - USB working? Just checking

2010-09-06 Thread Tristan Plumb
Mouse and keyboard support should be trivial to add and will come once (if) video is working on the Guruplug Display or OpenRD. This could take a long while, since the video controller is undocumented (there isn't even Linux driver source available). There is (or maybe are two) X11 drivers

Re: [9fans] page numbers on iwp9 papers

2010-09-06 Thread Jeff Sickel
On Sep 6, 2010, at 3:18 PM, EBo wrote: .rm CH Thanks Geoff, that worked like a charm! You may also want to ensure that you're using the macros.ms file as referenced in the mkfile on iwp9.org. -jas

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on the Acer Aspire One

2010-09-06 Thread Akshat Kumar
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 5:40 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: that doesn't look exactly like anything that plan 9 prints.  perhaps it printed one of these two messages?        (Bad format or )?I/O error        Press a key to reboot... I don't see anything like that - perhaps

Re: [9fans] other mouse buttons in drawterm on a one mouse button mac laptop under OS X

2010-09-06 Thread Russ Cox
In drawterm middle-click is option-click and right-click is command-click. In OS X in general right click is ctrl-click and in plan9 under vmware fusion ctrl-click is right-click and command-click is middle-click. Is there any reason for this discrepancy and can it be easily changed? I

Re: [9fans] page numbers on iwp9 papers

2010-09-06 Thread EBo
You may also want to ensure that you're using the macros.ms file as referenced in the mkfile on iwp9.org. I am...

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on the Acer Aspire One

2010-09-06 Thread Akshat Kumar
Just for the sake of completeness, here is some information about the disk in question: cpu% cat /dev/sdD0/ctl inquiry SSDPAMM0008G1 config 044A capabilities 2B00 dma 00550010 dmactl rwm 1 rwmctl 0 model SSDPAMM0008G1 serial CVPA8276824Q2 firmVer2.I0H featlba nop geometry

Re: [9fans] other mouse buttons in drawterm on a one mouse button mac laptop under OS X

2010-09-06 Thread James Chapman
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Russ Cox r...@swtch.com wrote: In drawterm middle-click is option-click and right-click is command-click. In OS X in general right click is ctrl-click and in plan9 under vmware fusion ctrl-click is right-click and command-click is middle-click. Is there any

[9fans] sharing the ndb(6) database

2010-09-06 Thread Akshat Kumar
My new auth server is completely standalone: it uses the kfs file system and boots off its own (solid state) disk. The rest of the network, for which it performs the authentication tasks, is based on a separate file server node. The auth server also runs dhcpd, tftpd, and a dns server. As such,