Re: [9fans] jumpy usb mouse on 9pi

2015-05-06 Thread Richard Miller
moving the mouse causes the cursor to jump erratically around the screen, almost exclusively in the vertical direction, along with rio registering button presses even though I'm not pressing any. This happens when the usb keyboard/mouse driver misinterprets the HID protocol description in the

Re: [9fans] jumpy usb mouse on 9pi

2015-05-06 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
This happens to me sporadically on ThinkPad T400. I can fix it by rebooting. -- Aram Hăvărneanu

[9fans] small VFD display

2015-05-06 Thread Steve Simon
Hi, I want to drive a small (180x32 pixel) VFD display from plan9. It talks i2c and can be driven as a text or graphics device. One irritation is it aligns bitmap bytes verticaly. i.e. the display's memory map appears to be a tradational 32x180 pixel display. I am going to talk to this from a

Re: [9fans] jumpy usb mouse on 9pi

2015-05-06 Thread st...@quintile.net
I have the same firmware, and an ibm m-u0013-o 3 button mouse, on a pi2 and it's working fine. I will try my pi1 tonight if I get time. Steve On 6 May 2015, at 00:34, Paul Ivanov p...@berkeley.edu wrote: Hello 9fans, I just got a used 3 button USB mouse (IBM-M-U35) which is giving me

Re: [9fans] small VFD display

2015-05-06 Thread Steve Simon
wsys: https://bitbucket.org/yiyus/devwsys-prev/ Mmm, not sure this is what I want. I want the Pi to run plan9, and run a seccond display (the vfd) on plan9 completely in user space. It is an interesting project. Personally I still harbour a wish to get a cpu server running on windows -

Re: [9fans] small VFD display

2015-05-06 Thread Steven Stallion
Thinking out loud: Most VFD's that I've dealt with were largely text displays - normally you'd see an 8051 or similar driving a mess of shift registers. Essentially, one would jam an ascii byte over GPIO and toggle a latch to update the display. I'm assuming it will be somewhat similar for this

Re: [9fans] small VFD display

2015-05-06 Thread yy
On 6 May 2015 at 11:52, Steve Simon st...@quintile.net wrote: Could I run the plan9 graphics subsystem in a stand alone app rather than involving the kernel? I think I can but are there any examples of this? wsys: https://bitbucket.org/yiyus/devwsys-prev/ It runs in unix. If you have a way to

Re: [9fans] fossil+venti performance question

2015-05-06 Thread Charles Forsyth
On 6 May 2015 at 22:28, David du Colombier 0in...@gmail.com wrote: Since the problem only happen when Fossil or vacfs are running on the same machine as Venti, I suppose this is somewhat related to how TCP behaves with the loopback. Interesting. That would explain the clock-like delays.

Re: [9fans] fossil+venti performance question

2015-05-06 Thread Steven Stallion
Definitely interesting, and explains why I've never seen the regression (I switched to a dedicated venti server a couple of years ago). Were these the changes that erik submitted? ISTR him working on reno bits somewhere around there... On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 4:28 PM, David du Colombier

Re: [9fans] fossil+venti performance question

2015-05-06 Thread Charles Forsyth
On 6 May 2015 at 23:35, Steven Stallion sstall...@gmail.com wrote: Were these the changes that erik submitted? I don't think so. Someone else submitted a different set of tcp changes independently much earlier.

Re: [9fans] fossil+venti performance question

2015-05-06 Thread David du Colombier
Just to be sure, I tried again, and the issue is not related to the lock change on 2013-09-19. However, now I'm sure the issue was caused by a kernel change in 2013. There is no problem when running a kernel from early 2013. -- David du Colombier

Re: [9fans] fossil+venti performance question

2015-05-06 Thread David du Colombier
Since the problem only happen when Fossil or vacfs are running on the same machine as Venti, I suppose this is somewhat related to how TCP behaves with the loopback. -- David du Colombier

Re: [9fans] fossil+venti performance question

2015-05-06 Thread Charles Forsyth
On 6 May 2015 at 21:55, David du Colombier 0in...@gmail.com wrote: However, now I'm sure the issue was caused by a kernel change in 2013. There is no problem when running a kernel from early 2013. Welly, welly, welly, well. That is interesting.

Re: [9fans] fossil+venti performance question

2015-05-06 Thread David du Colombier
I got it! The regression was caused by the NewReno TCP change on 2013-01-24. https://github.com/0intro/plan9/commit/e8406a2f44 -- David du Colombier

Re: [9fans] fossil+venti performance question

2015-05-06 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed May 6 15:30:24 PDT 2015, charles.fors...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 May 2015 at 22:28, David du Colombier 0in...@gmail.com wrote: Since the problem only happen when Fossil or vacfs are running on the same machine as Venti, I suppose this is somewhat related to how TCP behaves with the

Re: [9fans] fossil+venti performance question

2015-05-06 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue May 5 15:54:45 PDT 2015, ara...@mgk.ro wrote: It's pretty interesting that at least three people all got exactly 150kB/s on vastly different machines, both real and virtual. Maybe the number comes from some tick frequency? i might suggest altering HZ and seeing if there is a throughput

Re: [9fans] fossil+venti performance question

2015-05-06 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed May 6 14:28:03 PDT 2015, 0in...@gmail.com wrote: I got it! The regression was caused by the NewReno TCP change on 2013-01-24. https://github.com/0intro/plan9/commit/e8406a2f44 if you have proof, i'd be interested in reproduction of the issue from the original source, or perhaps