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Re: [9fans] Summary of acme chords

2012-04-25 Thread Gabriel Díaz López de la Llave
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[9fans] graphic card choice

2012-02-28 Thread Gabriel Díaz López de la llave
Hello has anyone tested a nvidia gtx560 with dvi output (or simmilar) with the vesa driver? thanks, gabi

Re: [9fans] troff book

2011-12-11 Thread Gabriel Díaz López de la llave
Hello You might be interested in this: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/tr2latex slds. gabi 2011/12/2 simon softnet : > By the way, I am currently forced to use LaTeX. > It's because formulas look nicer, and also because my current > supervisor asks me to. > > I was thinking of writing

Re: [9fans] troff book

2011-12-02 Thread Gabriel Díaz López de la llave
Hello This one could be a bit basic for what you want: http://oreilly.com/openbook/utp/ But a groff version source is public, so you might find it useful. slds. gabi 2011/12/2 Aharon Robbins : >> Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 14:02:29 +0100 >> From: hugo rivera >> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bel

Re: [9fans] Returning to Plan 9: Virtualization, Distributions

2011-11-22 Thread Gabriel Díaz López de la llave
hello i tried to boot it with simnow, but the network helper crashes on my installation, and i can´t load nix via pxe. (not sure if that´s related to the fact that i have an intel processor and in the manual they say amd is requeried :-?) I´ll try to do it with vmware one of these days gabi

Re: [9fans] Supported_PC_hardware list

2011-11-22 Thread Gabriel Díaz López de la llave
hello I have two cards plugged, could be that related to the failures i´m seeing? (either weird pictures and colors or invalid mode errors). I´ll give it another try. gabi 2011/11/22 erik quanstrom : > On Tue Nov 22 09:08:06 EST 2011, gdia...@gmail.com wrote: >> Hello >> >> I´m unable to get m

Re: [9fans] Supported_PC_hardware list

2011-11-22 Thread Gabriel Díaz López de la llave
Hello I´m unable to get more than 8bits color depth with an ATI 5750. I can do 1280x1024x8. Linux vesa driver can do full HD with 16bit colors iirc. slds. gabi 2011/11/22 erik quanstrom : > On Tue Nov 22 08:30:20 EST 2011, alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: > >> i was wondering if the Supporte

Re: [9fans] plan9port on lion

2011-10-14 Thread Gabriel Díaz López de la llave
Hello thank you very much for all this effort gabi On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Russ Cox wrote: > It looks like Apple pushed Xcode 4.2 to the App Store recently. > That, combined with some recent changes to plan9port, > means that plan9port finally compiles 'out of the box' on Lion. > > Ma

Re: [9fans] NIX 64-bit kernel is available

2011-09-14 Thread Gabriel Díaz López de la Llave
hello do you have a virtual machine image? 9vx crash here. Also i can´t find the BUILDING_AMD64 thanks, gabi El 14/09/2011, a las 22:42, John Floren escribió: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 1:38 PM, s s wrote: >> Very nice. >> >> Are you sure you want to call it NIX, though? >> >> A google sear

Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users do not believe it

2011-06-17 Thread Gabriel Díaz López de la llave
hello this reminds me something: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9kTVZiJ3Uc&feature=related slds. gabi On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Rob Pike wrote: > If you like mousing, mouse. If you like typing, type. One could even > imagine doing one or the other as appropriate. > > Eating is fast

Re: [9fans] how to mount an inert fossil partition?

2011-06-08 Thread Gabriel Díaz López de la llave
message on the first dump to warning the user :? slds. gabi On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Nicolas BERCHER wrote: > On 08/06/2011 23:36, Gabriel Díaz López de la llave wrote: > >> hello >> >> if the system can't boot, what are the symptoms? any error messages? >>

Re: [9fans] how to mount an inert fossil partition?

2011-06-08 Thread Gabriel Díaz López de la llave
hello if the system can't boot, what are the symptoms? any error messages? can't find the kernel? can't find sd device? what were you configuring when this happened? if you used fossil+venti installation, you need to start venti server before fossil. slds. gabi On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:23 P

Re: [9fans] Hey, new to this. Trying to get plan9 to work in a VM.

2011-06-07 Thread Gabriel Díaz López de la llave
Hello AMD and IBM/Sony think a bit different with their Fusion and Cell processors+gpu integrated, no? slds. On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Josh Marshall < joshua.r.marshall.1...@gmail.com> wrote: > A system running more hardware will, for all practical purposes, use more > energy. What this

Re: [9fans] Hey, new to this. Trying to get plan9 to work in a VM.

2011-06-06 Thread Gabriel Díaz López de la llave
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2010-09-09 Thread Gabriel Díaz López de la Llave
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2010-06-29 Thread Gabriel Díaz
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2010-05-04 Thread Gabriel Díaz
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Re: [9fans] ctrl radeon: not working for ATI Radeon 9600 Mobility?

2010-04-30 Thread Gabriel Díaz
hello Vesa code has some problems to deal with ati hd5750 cards here. Themouse cursor disappear when a lot of scrolling is happening, vesa is unable to drive the card beyond 8bit depth modes or 1280x1024 resolutions. Besides that, the performance i see is almost the same i had with the radeon

Re: [9fans] A simple experiment

2010-04-29 Thread Gabriel Díaz
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Re: [9fans] Recommended emulators/VMs for P9 install

2010-04-15 Thread Gabriel Díaz
Hello If you want to buy a desktop computer, and feel like running native plan9, I've got this machine (desktop) two/three weeks ago and run Plan9 reasonably well, and of course the other "mainstream" OS like win7 and linux. As for VM, i've used vmware server 2.0 (free) and runs quite well, 9g

Re: [9fans] revision control system or SCM of Plan 9 sources

2010-04-12 Thread Gabriel Díaz
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Re: [9fans] more little hardware

2010-03-18 Thread Gabriel Díaz
hello "How do I get my employer to need plan9?" Given the experiences posted by some of the plan9 inventors in other thread, this seems to be an almost impossible task, unless you make your own business or change you're employer for someone which already uses plan9. I guess. It is a bit discou

Re: [9fans] P9p on Fedora 12

2010-03-01 Thread Gabriel Díaz
hello if you inspect your install.log can you see something like this when compiling devdraw? (I'm supposing this is ubuntu 9.10 which is the same i have here, and that you have the latest tree of plan9ports, and that you have the x11 devel libraries, etc.) cd /home/gdiaz/plan9/src/cmd/devdraw

Re: [9fans] P9p on Fedora 12

2010-03-01 Thread Gabriel Díaz
hello my mistake, anyway i think the test might help slds. gabi - Mensaje original De: erik quanstrom Para: 9fans@9fans.net Enviado: lun,1 marzo, 2010 13:56 Asunto: Re: [9fans] P9p on Fedora 12 > i can reproduce that with: > > gd...@m9363:~/plan9/src/cmd/devdraw$ 9term > 9term: i

Re: [9fans] P9p on Fedora 12

2010-03-01 Thread Gabriel Díaz
hello i can reproduce that with: gd...@m9363:~/plan9/src/cmd/ devdraw$ echo $DISPLAY gd...@m9363:~/plan9/src/cmd/devdraw$ 9term 9term: initdraw: muxrpc: unexpected eof gd...@m9363:~/plan9/src/cmd/devdraw$ so, can you use other programs X programs? do you have a DISPLAY variable? are you tryi

Re: [9fans] P9p on Fedora 12

2010-03-01 Thread Gabriel Díaz
hello It works here. Below is the output of the process. did you get more errors when running INSTALL script? slds. gabi gd...@m9363:~$ lsb_release -a LSB Version:core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch: core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4

Re: [9fans] plan9 wiki

2009-05-23 Thread Gabriel Díaz López de la Llave
hello i have a copy here: http://9grid.es/wiki/plan_9_wiki/ slds. gabi El 23/05/2009, a las 11:04, Lorenzo Bolla escribió: Hi all, I'm having difficulties (in the last 2 days) accessing the plan9 wiki at this address: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9 Is it down? Is it going up agai

[9fans] fossil crashed with assert failed: r->b == nil

2009-05-12 Thread Gabriel Díaz López de la Llave
Hello I have had a couple of crashed lately, and this is the first time i was able to acces the console. Theses messages were on the console: [messages about out of order packed elided] could not write super block; waiting 10 seconds blistAlloc: called on clean block 775603 re.test: check

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox and Plan9

2009-04-22 Thread Gabriel Díaz López de la Llave
hello 9grid.es is also a vmware server and works quite well (with one virtual processor only, using two of them, vmware consumes all the cpu available outside the virtual machine) slds. gabi El 22/04/2009, a las 8:56, Federico G. Benavento escribió: I am trying this from a Vista box. P

Re: [9fans] Strange rc bug for the 9fans bug-squashing squad

2009-03-18 Thread Gabriel Díaz López de la Llave
Hello http://plan9.aichi-u.ac.jp/pegasus/cgitools/formparse.html It works well for me, seems than Kenji Arisawa thought about this when developing his http tools pegasus and rit. Take a look a it, may be it helps you. Slds. Gabi On 18/03/09 2:23, "Russ Cox" wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 a

Re: [9fans] why sources and the plan 9 web server have been up and down lately

2009-02-13 Thread Gabriel Díaz López de la Llave
Hello Thanks for your efforts and the status message, having sources is really appreciated. Btw, i hope you didn't loose any tree of your garden, we had strong winds here too (i've been invited to a chainsaw-party ;) Slds. Gabi El 13/02/2009, a las 3:11, ge...@plan9.bell-labs.com esc

Re: [9fans] Web interface to '/n/sources/contrib' gone??

2009-02-10 Thread Gabriel Díaz López de la Llave
Hello I should update wiki: http://9grid.es/sources It is not updated, as i stopped the mirroring process when all this started in november 2008 more or less. slds. gabi El 10/02/2009, a las 17:02, matt escribió: iirc sources is down because there was some heavy scraping going on that

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2009-02-09 Thread Gabriel Díaz López de la Llave
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