[9fans] vesa blanking

2009-12-09 Thread erik quanstrom
this trivial code implements blanking for vesa. - erik ; diffy -c vgavesa.c /n/dump/2009/1209/sys/src/9/pc/vgavesa.c:157,162 - vgavesa.c:157,182 } } + static void + vesablank(VGAscr *scr, int blank) + { + Ureg u; + + vbesetup(&u, 0x4f10); + if(blank) +

Re: [9fans] 9p resource sharing [was: Scanners]

2009-12-09 Thread Tim Newsham
we found it's a lot easier doing it like in the octopus. we'll be happy to discuss any of it. Did you find 9p adequate for the resource sharing you did or did you have to alter the protocol or augment it with other protocols? Did you use the normal plan9 authentication mechanisms or did you exp

Re: [9fans] port/allocb.c question

2009-12-09 Thread geoff
I think it's just the idiom we adopted when we added reference counting.

Re: [9fans] plan9port, drawterm cvs deprecated - use mercurial

2009-12-09 Thread Tim Newsham
Sorry for the inconvenience. Thank you for all the effort! Russ Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | thenewsh.blogspot.com

Re: [9fans] port/allocb.c question

2009-12-09 Thread Charles Forsyth
>Is there any reason a locked increment is being used? good question. i thought it might be a new tradition. i don't think it's needed.

[9fans] mp interrupts vs. vesa

2009-12-09 Thread erik quanstrom
on my ich7 + atom 330 machine using 1600x1200x16 on 8086/2772 in vesa mode, i was able to hang the machine by displaying a large jpg with page. - erik

[9fans] port/allocb.c question

2009-12-09 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
Hi, In _allocb() in port/allocb.c, there is an _xinc(&b->ref) on a long inside the Block header. No one else ought have a pointer to this block yet, seeing as its not done being allocated. Is there any reason a locked increment is being used? -- vs

Re: [9fans] plan9port, drawterm cvs deprecated - use mercurial

2009-12-09 Thread Anthony Sorace
I'm interested in the changes, although I'm mostly using 9vx rather than drawterm. I tried to get ktrans running again a few months ago and couldn't make it work, regardless of trigger. Is there an updated version of that available somewhere, as well?

[9fans] auth_getkey(2) and factotum path

2009-12-09 Thread Iruata Souza
hello, i am playing with a kernel configuration where i have factotum in /$cputype/bin/auth/factotum instead of /boot. today this is not possible because auth_getkey(2) requires /boot/factotum or /factotum to be present. would it be a problem if auth_getkey tried the usual place too? iru

Re: [9fans] plan9port, drawterm cvs deprecated - use mercurial

2009-12-09 Thread kokamoto
> If you're using CVS to get plan9port or drawterm, > it's time to switch to Mercurial. > http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man1/hg.html I happen to have a japanese version of macbook with snow leopard recently. I use this machine for my lecture in our Univ. an then, I needed to have drawterm on it.

Re: [9fans] usb keyboard not responding

2009-12-09 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
It seems your device is not accepting its address. Any back-compat option in the bios you can switch on/off ? was it a warm reboot, or a cold one? Drop me a line off-list with the info and I'll try to help. On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Abhishek Kulkarni wrote: > I've got a relatively newer m

Re: [9fans] tex

2009-12-09 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Although it is no TeX I would like to suggest ``lout'', a lightweight > (2 MB) document formatting system written in ANSI C by Jeffrey H. > Kingston. [0] > Hello. I have had a look at lout and have printed its user guide. I think it doesn't understand utf. Otherwise it seems to be highly inspired