Re: [9fans] alpha channel

hi russ, thanks for the info. thanks dharani On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Russ Cox r...@swtch.com wrote: 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

Re: [9fans] vmware fusion - plan9 snarf issue

hi russ, okay, this confirms some of the postings in the past. in my opinion, this shortfall is really a bad one. cut-and-paste is something very common operation (that too in plan9). it is really difficult to live without it. i wonder why it has to be this complicated in vmware. btw this is

[9fans] rio in cpu/auth server in vmware fusion 2.0

hi, is anyone able to run rio well in plan9 cpu/auth server on vmware fusion 2.0? i am able to run it in stand alone mode. but once i switch to cpu/auth server mode, i only see black screen. then i am able to open new windows, use it to some extent but things get clumsy. i dont see the window

Re: [9fans] vmware fusion - plan9 snarf issue

to be clear, this behavior is while running the old plan 9 vmware tool, right? without that, i'd expect the snarf buffer to work properly within the guest environment, but you won't have any way to get things out.

Re: [9fans] rio in cpu/auth server in vmware fusion 2.0

echo hwaccel off '#v/vgactl'

Re: [9fans] rio in cpu/auth server in vmware fusion 2.0

Or better yet, use drawterm to a vmware based Plan 9 stand alone CPU server. Copy/paste works, rio is responsive, and the VMWare host never needs to enter graphics mode. Don't configure the vm for multiple cpus though, that doesn't work so well (but virtualizing multiple cpus doesn't

Re: [9fans] rio in cpu/auth server in vmware fusion 2.0

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Jeff Sickel j...@corpus-callosum.com wrote: Unless you've got some NDA from VMWare in place so that you can write a new driver for Plan 9 to use whatever graphics chipset will work, I'm no VMWare fan and their policy for releasing documentation used to be beyond

Re: [9fans] rio in cpu/auth server in vmware fusion 2.0

hi russ, this works. thanks a lot. regards dharani On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Russ Cox r...@swtch.com wrote: echo hwaccel off '#v/vgactl'

[9fans] Mount problems with p9p

Thanks Russ for your comments, This problem is not only with my fs. With the ramfs: Thanks, kix. k...@sys:/tmp$ mkdir a k...@sys:/tmp$ cp /usr/local/plan9/src/lib9p/ramfs.c a k...@sys:/tmp$ cd a k...@sys:/tmp/a$ 9c ramfs.c k...@sys:/tmp/a$ 9l ramfs.o k...@sys:/tmp/a$ mv a.out ramfs

Re: [9fans] rio in cpu/auth server in vmware fusion 2.0

As for drawterm, can we kill it already? 9vx and Inferno are much better alternatives.. your comments remind me non specificly of a monty python skit with clease as the customer and idle as shopkeeper. clease: hi, i'd like a cheese, please. idle: no cheese today sir! clease: no cheese? idle:

Re: [9fans] rio in cpu/auth server in vmware fusion 2.0

On Dec 28, 2008, at 12:24 PM, Uriel wrote: On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Jeff Sickel j...@corpus- callosum.com wrote: Unless you've got some NDA from VMWare in place so that you can write a new driver for Plan 9 to use whatever graphics chipset will work, I'm no VMWare fan and their

Re: [9fans] rio in cpu/auth server in vmware fusion 2.0

but virtualizing multiple cpus doesn't really work well in Parallels or VirtualBox either, nor on VMWare's ESX servers I'm using both physical cpus on my ESX-based Plan 9 server. Should I be expecting erratic behaviour? ++L

[9fans] Trouble setting up cpu/auth server

hi, i have some minor issues with cpu/auth server. i had kept this line: aux/listen -q -t /rc/bin/service.auth -d /rc/bin/service tcp in /cfg/mill/cpurc (mill is my cpu server name) now, i moved it to /rc/bin/cpurc below the keyfs and cron commands (uncommented) now, drawterm works, which is

Re: [9fans] Trouble setting up cpu/auth server

now, drawterm works, which is good. but somehow cpu doesnt work for me. this is what happens: mill# cpu -h 192.168.1.199 -u vdharani cpu: can't authenticate: 192.168.1.199: auth_proxy rpc write: p9...@mill.edu: no key matches user=vdharani proto=p9sk1 dom=mill.edu role=client user?

Re: [9fans] Trouble setting up cpu/auth server

hi skip, thanks, this helps. i am now able to do drawterm and cpu now (same/different user). regards dharani On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Skip Tavakkolian 9...@9netics.com wrote: now, drawterm works, which is good. but somehow cpu doesnt work for me. this is what happens: mill# cpu -h

Re: [9fans] rio in cpu/auth server in vmware fusion 2.0

but virtualizing multiple cpus doesn't really work well in Parallels or VirtualBox either, nor on VMWare's ESX servers I'm using both physical cpus on my ESX-based Plan 9 server. Should I be expecting erratic behaviour? i've had a 4-vcpu vm running xp on a poweredge+esx (2×quad core)

Re: [9fans] rio in cpu/auth server in vmware fusion 2.0

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Jeff Sickel j...@corpus-callosum.com wrote: Not with VMware Fusion it isn't. Mostly because you get a bunch of garbage being drawn/hidden when trying to get Plan 9's video drivers working. So it's mostly useless. In that case I don't think you can blame

Re: [9fans] rio in cpu/auth server in vmware fusion 2.0

diversity is a good strategy in nature; plan9 is not above it.