On Dec 22, 2008, at 8:46 PM, Nathaniel W Filardo wrote:
Hi,
The contrib index mentions that daily changelogs for Plan 9 are in
sources/extra/changes, but those haven't been updated since early
2007.
Is there any preferred way to get changelogs / diffs these days?
Relatedly, is there a bette
>>> Is there any preferred way to get changelogs / diffs these days?
>>
>> yesterday -d ...
>> when i'm especially curious or anxious.
>
> But yesterday won't work in a more lightweight environment (such as
> 9vx) will it?
exactly the same as plan 9 does.
as long as the fs supports a dump fs, 9v
On Dec 24, 2008, at 12:04 PM, andrey mirtchovski wrote:
cpu -h $sysname -u vdharani
wouldn't auth/login vdharani also work?
Thanks,
Roman.
> That's fair. But let me flip a question then, a bit: what do you all use
> DMAPPEND for? What's are the examples of the most appropriate
> usage for it in existing Plan9 software?
i think log files are the cannonical use of append-only files.
mbox style mailboxes also use append-only sematics fo
On Dec 22, 2008, at 8:41 AM, Charles Forsyth wrote:
Is there any preferred way to get changelogs / diffs these days?
yesterday -d ...
when i'm especially curious or anxious.
But yesterday won't work in a more lightweight environment (such as
9vx) will it?
it probably wouldn't hurt to have a
On Dec 21, 2008, at 6:45 AM, erik quanstrom wrote:
is your 9p server ever going to be running on an nfs-mounted
partition?
As with any software -- it would be pretty difficult for me to
prevent
somebody from doing that, but in general -- no.
i use "in general" to mean the exact opposite of
i put a new sdiahci.c on sources that may help if you
have a hba with staggered spin up capability. i believe
ich9m does some pretty aggressive power mgnt. many
thanks to lucho for the patience to help work on the
problem.
/n/sources/contrib/quanstro/9/pc/^(sdiahci.c ahci.h)
/n/sources/contrib/q
> Ah sorry I had confused the various tests I did: the case where I
> actually have this problem is if
> I call the function acme itself, ie if I do
> fn acme { acme -f /lib/font/bit/fixed/unicode.8x13.font }
>
> If I call it acmef or whatever else, no problem, which seems less odd to me
> now.
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 7:04 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
>> I've defined such an rc function:
>> fn acmef { acme -f /lib/font/bit/fixed/unicode.8x13.font }
>> and when I call this function I keep getting this error displayed
>> repetively on the screen:
>>
>> grow segment 3 -> f0 would overlap 0
hi,
this is regarding alpha channel.
i am able to change the alpha value for an image by setting new alpha value
for every pixel.
but i was thinking we also could set the alpha value for all of the pixels
in a window/screen just but setting the value somewhere, say using ctl. is
this not possible
hi andrey,
thanks for the quick reply. i think this is how i was using it but forgot
about it.
regards
dharani
2008/12/24 andrey mirtchovski
> cpu -h $sysname -u vdharani
>
>
cpu -h $sysname -u vdharani
hi,
here is a quick question. let us say i am logged in as glenda or none. let
us say, i want a new window in which i need to login as vdharani. how can i
do this? in unix machines, i could do su, telnet or ssh and then login as
new user. i am looking for something like this.
years back i asked th
>> echo dma on>/dev/sdXX/ctl doesn't turn dma on?
>
> And I was so proud of myself.
you should be.
> Is this documented somewhere?
i know it's in the mailing list archives.
- erik
On Dec 24, 2008, at 5:51 AM, erik quanstrom wrote:
the following diff enables dma on this controller and has yet to blow
anything up.
echo dma on>/dev/sdXX/ctl doesn't turn dma on?
And I was so proud of myself.
Is this documented somewhere? the only reference to dma i found was in
the Su
> I've defined such an rc function:
> fn acmef { acme -f /lib/font/bit/fixed/unicode.8x13.font }
> and when I call this function I keep getting this error displayed
> repetively on the screen:
>
> grow segment 3 -> f0 would overlap 0 [f00-1000]
>
> this happens both with p9p acme/rc a
Hi all,
I've defined such an rc function:
fn acmef { acme -f /lib/font/bit/fixed/unicode.8x13.font }
and when I call this function I keep getting this error displayed
repetively on the screen:
grow segment 3 -> f0 would overlap 0 [f00-1000]
this happens both with p9p acme/rc and in 9
> the following diff enables dma on this controller and has yet to blow
> anything up.
echo dma on>/dev/sdXX/ctl doesn't turn dma on?
- erik
> EricVH's /srv replacement. See
> http://graverobbers.blogspot.com/2008/12/srv-next-generation-service-registry.html
perhaps i don't understand the srv² proposal, to which there
are many parts, but part of the problem seems to be finding
a service. generally this is mediated by /net/cs. i wond
hi charles,
thanks for the details.
regards
dharani
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Charles Forsyth wrote:
> for plan 9, for the older 4501 i think i had to eliminate some cga
> references
> in config and mkfile. use a mkfile without cga.$O (this
> would be better done by specifying cga in the
hi erik,
thats good to know. long back i asked about support for 5501 in 9fans but
only now i got some free time to try it. as of now, i dont know what is
involved in getting it up and running. i am also planning to try various
things like boot with hard drive, flash drive, USB audio device, try
i
hi charles,
thanks for the details.
via draw.) this is on a 1.2Ghz core duo on ubuntu 8.04. it "didn't seem
> too bad"
> (ie, not unusable) but it probably isn't as responsive as under plan 9
> proper
yes, in cases like this, it is usable but the noticeable lag and the
relatively slow updates m
hi richard,
thanks for the info. both 1280x768x8 and 1280x768x24 work for me. i am
working on some (unrelated) issues, after which i will try more
combinations.
thanks
dharani
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
> > btw, what was your plan9.ini config? di
On Dec 21, 2008, at 12:42 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
geoff has probablly fixed things for you today. this line from
sdata.c
added recently should support your nvidia controller
case (0x00E3<<16)|0x10DE: /* nVidia nForce2 250 SATA */
thanks, geoff.
the following diff enables
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