Re: [9fans] nemo's book - where is it currently hosted?

2009-07-13 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:19 PM, james toym...@0xabadba.be wrote: I suspect lsub will be back up very shortly.  If you cannot wait until then feel free to mail me off list and I will send you a copy. Sorry for this. The people from the University have been doing some maintenance on the

[9fans] Broadcom ethernet controller

2009-07-13 Thread Lorenzo Bolla
Hi all, I have a Dell Inspiron with a Broadcom BCM4401 ethernet controller that does not seem to be recognized by Plan9. The same problem arose few years ago: http://9fans.net/archive/2005/07/9 Has it been solved yet? Thanks! Lorenzo.

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread sqweek
You'll notice it still tries mount(2) after stat(2) reveals that mount.9p doesn't exist. mount(8) always looks for a helper and will call it if it exists, but it doesn't fail when no helper is present. As others have said, mount(2) doesn't do name resolution, but by my reading that should give

Re: [9fans] Plan9 as an everyday OS

2009-07-13 Thread sqweek
/n/sources/contrib/mason/ac97.tgz Worked out of the box, just had to drop it in place and recompile the kernel. -sqweek 2009/7/12 Uriel urie...@gmail.com: With which ac97 driver? uriel On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:13 PM, sqweeksqw...@gmail.com wrote:  lies! we had ac97 working on the t23 at

Re: [9fans] nemo's book - where is it currently hosted?

2009-07-13 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
I'm sorry but during this weekend we had a power down that we have scheduled once a year in the entire building. Things should be back online now. On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:19 PM, james toym...@0xabadba.be wrote: Corey ==8== Introduction to OS abstractions using Plan 9 from Bell Labs Two

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread hiro
 mount: Protocol not supported There was a time where you had to modprobe 9p2000 first. Should be worth a try.

Re: [9fans] plan 9 interface color ergonomy

2009-07-13 Thread Paul Donnelly
eeke...@fastmail.fm (Ethan Grammatikidis) writes: The only pale colours on the South Downs are the haze-blued hills of the North Downs in the far distance, and the sky when it's overcast. The middle and foreground are occupied by very strong greens, except for some fields near harvest time

Re: [9fans] plan 9 interface color ergonomy

2009-07-13 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:14:33 GMT Paul Donnelly paul-donne...@sbcglobal.net wrote: eeke...@fastmail.fm (Ethan Grammatikidis) writes: The only pale colours on the South Downs are the haze-blued hills of the North Downs in the far distance, and the sky when it's overcast. The middle and

Re: [9fans] Plan9 as an everyday OS

2009-07-13 Thread Markus Sonderegger
ac97 works fine for me, on 3 different machines. just to say it here. i put this driver to my contrib, but aki is the author! is just added some lines of code. but there seem to be a bug, when used with juke(7). i get ton's of these messages when i play the first song qlock: 0xf018d159:

Re: [9fans] Plan9 as an everyday OS

2009-07-13 Thread erik quanstrom
ac97 works fine for me, on 3 different machines. just to say it here. i put this driver to my contrib, but aki is the author! is just added some lines of code. but there seem to be a bug, when used with juke(7). i get ton's of these messages when i play the first song qlock: 0xf018d159:

Re: [9fans] ide fix?

2009-07-13 Thread erik quanstrom
This sounds promising for that ICH laptop with the 320G drive that magically doesn't work (though the 120GB one that was in it was fine). How do I get this on a disc to try it out? what was the symptom again? - erik

Re: [9fans] ide fix?

2009-07-13 Thread erik quanstrom
This sounds promising for that ICH laptop with the 320G drive that magically doesn't work (though the 120GB one that was in it was fine). How do I get this on a disc to try it out? can you pxe? - erik

Re: [9fans] ide fix?

2009-07-13 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
2009/7/13 erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net: after a week of fighting with an atom with ich7r sata in ide mode, i finally found the secret sauce that keeps it from hanging.  i pushed out a changed quanstro/9load-e820 and quanstro/sd which boot on my atom machine in ide mode without causing

Re: [9fans] plan 9 interface color ergonomy

2009-07-13 Thread Steve Simon
...a colour space diagram showing the range a monitor... More info than you wanted here: http://www.poynton.com/Poynton-color.html -Steve

Re: [9fans] ide fix?

2009-07-13 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
2009/7/13 erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net: This sounds promising for that ICH laptop with the 320G drive that magically doesn't work (though the 120GB one that was in it was fine). How do I get this on a disc to try it out? can you pxe? Not easily. The issue was a few bits in PCI

Re: [9fans] plan 9 interface color ergonomy

2009-07-13 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:44:23 +0100 Steve Simon st...@quintile.net wrote: ...a colour space diagram showing the range a monitor... More info than you wanted here: http://www.poynton.com/Poynton-color.html Cheers! -- Ethan Grammatikidis Those who are slower at parsing information must

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:24 AM, sqweeksqw...@gmail.com wrote:  Anyway, note that if you auth you'll need supporting software from p9p also. Factotum and srv -a, in particular, then give v9fs a -o trans=unix. Any chance we can get fossil integration into 9mount directly? Most of the code is

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread lucio
Anyway, note that if you auth you'll need supporting software from p9p also. Factotum and srv -a, in particular, then give v9fs a -o trans=unix. Would you mind documenting this a little more explicitly and posting it somewhere handy? I'm sure you've given enough hints here to make it work,

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread Latchesar Ionkov
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:24 AM, sqweeksqw...@gmail.com wrote:  Anyway, note that if you auth you'll need supporting software from p9p also. Factotum and srv -a, in particular, then give v9fs a -o trans=unix. I don't think that auth is working with v9fs at all. The auth support got dropped

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
If someone pulls together a verified HOWTO for the auth case, I'd be happy to add it to the Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt -eric On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 9:59 AM, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote:  Anyway, note that if you auth you'll need supporting software from p9p also. Factotum and srv

[9fans] aux/sshserve

2009-07-13 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
Hi, Has anyone had any success setting up aux/sshserve on Plan 9? I've used aux/ssh_genkey, but have had no luck getting the server to accept connections... Thanks, -- vs

Re: [9fans] Time for a new, yet not bleeding edge plan 9 box... (recommendations for a small x86, inexpensive PC)

2009-07-13 Thread ron minnich
http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=49#power-bundle DESCRIPTION PRICE QTY TOTAL Bundle: Intel DG45FC, Jou Jye 528i Case, 2GB RAM, 2.5in HDD Tray £175.00 £175.00 Intel E1400 Celeron Dual Core 2.0 GHz Socket 775 CPU Heatsink for DG45FC Board * Lead

Re: [9fans] Time for a new, yet not bleeding edge plan 9 box... (recommendations for a small x86, inexpensive PC)

2009-07-13 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Jul 13 11:48:01 EDT 2009, rminn...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=49#power-bundle DESCRIPTION PRICE QTY TOTAL Bundle: Intel DG45FC, Jou Jye 528i Case, 2GB RAM, 2.5in HDD Tray £175.00 £175.00 Intel E1400 Celeron Dual Core

Re: [9fans] Time for a new, yet not bleeding edge plan 9 box... (recommendations for a small x86, inexpensive PC)

2009-07-13 Thread David Leimbach
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:58 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: On Mon Jul 13 11:48:01 EDT 2009, rminn...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=49#power-bundle DESCRIPTION PRICE QTY TOTAL Bundle: Intel DG45FC, Jou Jye 528i Case, 2GB RAM, 2.5in HDD

Re: [9fans] Time for a new, yet not bleeding edge plan 9 box... (recommendations for a small x86, inexpensive PC)

2009-07-13 Thread Andreas Eriksen
Unfortunately, the controller used in that series of SSD's has a pretty bad reputation. http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531p=17 That said, it's the second version of it and it is a lot better than the first. It might also be that it is less of a problem with Venti, I don't know

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread Tim Newsham
Adding the support we had before the access= support is probably easy, but I would like to make it better and support authentication for multiple users. Still no idea what is the correct way. :( Any suggestions are welcome. I'm glad you brought this up because this is a conversation I wanted to

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread hiro
Well, IMHO it would be nice to have it named (or symlinked as) mount.9p folks who mount as root could get the helper automatically.  This would be nice for the standard Linux admin who is mounting crap as root anyways and trips over the DNS resolution error because all they are used to is NFS

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread hiro
When I need remote access I nowadays use v9fs+ssh. Multi-user auth in kernel like you propose sounds nice and consistent, but too complicated. It doesn't fit linux, and thus an additional deamon would mean one more place of security relevant code prone to bugs. And even if this is only intended to

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:44 PM, hiro23h...@googlemail.com wrote: Well, IMHO it would be nice to have it named (or symlinked as) mount.9p folks who mount as root could get the helper automatically.  This would be nice for the standard Linux admin who is mounting crap as root anyways and trips

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:45 PM, hiro23h...@googlemail.com wrote: When I need remote access I nowadays use v9fs+ssh. Multi-user auth in kernel like you propose sounds nice and consistent, but too complicated. It doesn't fit linux, and thus an additional deamon would mean one more place of

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread J.R. Mauro
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Eric Van Hensbergeneri...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:45 PM, hiro23h...@googlemail.com wrote: When I need remote access I nowadays use v9fs+ssh. Multi-user auth in kernel like you propose sounds nice and consistent, but too complicated. It

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:18 PM, J.R. Maurojrm8...@gmail.com wrote: We hope to. One of the reasons it would actually be unwise to let anyone mount anything now is that no one uses per-process namespaces. That's probably fine on your desktop, but not on a server where 20 people try to mount

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:16 PM, ron minnichrminn...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:18 PM, J.R. Maurojrm8...@gmail.com wrote: We hope to. One of the reasons it would actually be unwise to let anyone mount anything now is that no one uses per-process namespaces. That's probably

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Eric Van Hensbergeneri...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure how easy or difficult this would be inside the kernel -- the central problem last time I looked at it was it was difficult to unshare namespace after the fork. Well, my mount command cheated. When you ran the

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread J.R. Mauro
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:16 PM, ron minnichrminn...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:18 PM, J.R. Maurojrm8...@gmail.com wrote: We hope to. One of the reasons it would actually be unwise to let anyone mount anything now is that no one uses per-process namespaces. That's probably

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:37 PM, ron minnichrminn...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Eric Van Hensbergeneri...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure how easy or difficult this would be inside the kernel -- the central problem last time I looked at it was it was difficult to unshare

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread erik quanstrom
It would be nice to fix up mounts so that you didn't need to be root and all that crap, and then make it the default, but I doubt Linus would let it fly. I get the feeling that private namespaces are viewed like chroots: a security feature no one but pros needs. Unfortunately not many linux

[9fans] ugliness in vesa

2009-07-13 Thread john
So, I finally got tired of slow desktop switching with the nvidia driver and thought I'd give vesa another shot. However, upon rebooting with vesa in 1600x1200x16 mode, I'm seeing strange artifacts when using vncv and fgb's equis; an example from vnc is shown at

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread J.R. Mauro
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:50 PM, erik quanstromquans...@quanstro.net wrote: It would be nice to fix up mounts so that you didn't need to be root and all that crap, and then make it the default, but I doubt Linus would let it fly. I get the feeling that private namespaces are viewed like

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:41 PM, J.R. Maurojrm8...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:16 PM, ron minnichrminn...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:18 PM, J.R. Maurojrm8...@gmail.com wrote: We hope to. One of the reasons it would actually be unwise to let anyone mount anything

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread erik quanstrom
(then again, i have a feeling the same could be said of plan 9.) Of course, everything has cruft. But Plan 9 is decent to imitate since it is less crufty. not only is plan 9 cleaner, it's core ideas are all high quality, and one can understand it. so when it comes time to add one's own

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread ron minnich
you need to find the niche and provide programs, which people can just use. Or you need to find the niche that lets other people write programs, and we're not where we need to be on that score. It's still too hard for people to write servers and there's no clear answer on which library to use.

Re: [9fans] Guide to using Acme effectively? too many spaces

2009-07-13 Thread Fernan Bolando
I usually get in a situation like the one below, when I forget to format my file with carriage return in acme. It doesn't happen that often, but I was wondering if anybody has some method in there usage of acme to avoid it completely. --- In acme it will look like

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread Tim Newsham
Could we solve this by making private mounts the default (or only allowed) behavior? I've wondered if there's enough context information that the fs driver could fake per-process mount points directly. For example, I mount v9fs on /n. Initially I have no remote mounts in there, but I have

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread J.R. Mauro
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Eric Van Hensbergeneri...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:41 PM, J.R. Maurojrm8...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:16 PM, ron minnichrminn...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:18 PM, J.R. Maurojrm8...@gmail.com wrote: We hope to.

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread J.R. Mauro
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:08 PM, ron minnichrminn...@gmail.com wrote: you need to find the niche and provide programs, which people can just use. Or you need to find the niche that lets other people write programs, and we're not where we need to be on that score. It's still too hard for people

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Jul 13 20:43:21 EDT 2009, news...@lava.net wrote: Could we solve this by making private mounts the default (or only allowed) behavior? I've wondered if there's enough context information that the fs driver could fake per-process mount points directly. For example, I mount v9fs on

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Tim Newshamnews...@lava.net wrote: Could we solve this by making private mounts the default (or only allowed) behavior? I've wondered if there's enough context information that the fs driver could fake per-process mount points directly. Lucho's v9fs auth

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:42 PM, J.R. Maurojrm8...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Eric Van Hensbergeneri...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:41 PM, J.R. Maurojrm8...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:16 PM, ron minnichrminn...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul

[9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread Latchesar Ionkov
I don't see why should we do tricks like that. We have support for private namespaces, why should we make the linux code even more complicated? Thanks,    Lucho On Monday, July 13, 2009, Tim Newsham news...@lava.net wrote: Could we solve this by making private mounts the default (or only

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
I believe Priyanka has some significant work on getting private per-process namespaces in Glendix for this year's GSoC. --dho

[9fans] building plan9port: arch spec, arm vs armv5tel

2009-07-13 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
Building plan9port on an arm box I get this message several times: sh: cd: 4: can't cd to armv5tel At the end of the build the only binary in plan9/bin is mk: $ file bin/* | grep ELF bin/mk:ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.14, dynamically linked

Re: [9fans] building plan9port: arch spec, arm vs armv5tel

2009-07-13 Thread Russ Cox
+plan9port-dev bcc: 9fans I have just created a mailing list for these questions. It is not documented anywhere yet - yours is the first. I would have called the mailing list plan9port-help but apparently -help is not a valid mailing list suffix. plan9port-...@googlegroups.com There is also an

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread Tim Newsham
I don't see why should we do tricks like that. We have support for private namespaces, why should we make the linux code even more complicated? Some of us use systems other than Linux. Also, it may be easier to sell one idea (v9fs) than two ideas (v9fs + private name spaces). It seems that

Re: [9fans] Guide to using Acme effectively? too many spaces

2009-07-13 Thread erik quanstrom
I usually get in a situation like the one below, when I forget to format my file with carriage return in acme. It doesn't happen that often, but I was wondering if anybody has some method in there usage of acme to avoid it completely. it's tempting to claim the solution is to not use vi. do

Re: [9fans] ugliness in vesa

2009-07-13 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Jul 13 19:58:54 EDT 2009, j...@csplan9.rit.edu wrote: So, I finally got tired of slow desktop switching with the nvidia driver and thought I'd give vesa another shot. i have had trouble with vesa cursor in 1600x1200. generally when i have trouble, the cursor won't move at all. one

Re: [9fans] C compiler question

2009-07-13 Thread Adriano Verardo
erik quanstrom wrote: 8c silently accept the above definition and sizeof(U) is 100. ??? The sources which include the definition of NeverDefined are regularly compiled too and sizeof(U) = 100 + sizeof(NeverDefined). i think the issue is that there isn't currently a distinction between

Re: [9fans] C compiler question

2009-07-13 Thread erik quanstrom
Yes, but in my example - sorry - NeverDefined doesn't mean declared and defined elsewhere (or not) but not declared .and. not defined. true enough. the patch i sent still rejects your construct. i'd still be interested to hear a perspective of someone with more experience with the c compiler.

Re: [9fans] C compiler question

2009-07-13 Thread Russ Cox
Yes, but in my example - sorry - NeverDefined doesn't mean declared and defined elsewhere (or not) but not declared .and. not defined. no and yes. union U { struct { struct NeverDefined nf; // Unknown, definition not #included } S1 }; declares a struct named

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread lucio
I have a variant using Inferno right now, mounting the file system directly from the stdin/stdout of the emu. This isn't very practical in my case, because I need to port emu to the Yeeloong first. Hiro suggested using v9fs+ssh, I'd be interested in that option as a stopgap, but again some

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread lucio
On the security side, I helped get the plan9-style authentication device in the mainline kernel. It's in staging. I guess the PAM module is 90% done, but they need some help if anyone is interested. Where do I look for this? I don't know Linux or PAM well enough to believe I can help, but one

Re: [9fans] ugliness in vesa

2009-07-13 Thread lucio
I'm finding that vesa works nicely on my terminal in terms of speed, and I'm not seeing any difference in 16 bit vs. 32 bit color. VESA has stopped being useful on my SiS 55x, flash based workstation. The symptoms are an insistence that the video inputs are incorrect (the monitor complains).

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-13 Thread lucio
I've wondered if there's enough context information that the fs driver could fake per-process mount points directly. A totally uneducated shot in the dark: would having a userspace mount command that creates a private namespace (vaguely what you describe in your note) not be a good starting

Re: [9fans] ugliness in vesa

2009-07-13 Thread John Floren
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:42 PM, erik quanstromquans...@quanstro.net wrote: On Mon Jul 13 19:58:54 EDT 2009, j...@csplan9.rit.edu wrote: So, I finally got tired of slow desktop switching with the nvidia driver and thought I'd give vesa another shot. i have had trouble with vesa cursor in