Re: [9fans] [OT] interesting hardware project for gsoc

2008-03-04 Thread Alexander Sychev
It's just a quite popular joke in Russia. Actually, in the Russian army such kind a "humor" really takes a place. For example: "dig a ditch from the fence till the dusk" On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:18:42 +0300, Martin Harriss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alexande

Re: [9fans] [OT] interesting hardware project for gsoc

2008-03-03 Thread Alexander Sychev
In the Russian army: Sgt.: Who is a painter here? Soldier: I'm the painter. Sgt.: Well, take this axe and draw me a stack of firewood in the morning. On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:32:32 +0300, Skip Tavakkolian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: here's an idea from brucee for a gsoc project. he did a proo

Re: [9fans] An unsuccessful attempt to install on Thinkpad T43

2008-02-20 Thread Alexander Sychev
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:10:14 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: First off, Plan 9 does not need to be on the first free partition. I have it installed on the second partition on my laptop and it boots fine. Oh, sorry, Plan9 needs a free PRIMARY partition. I was wrong. -- Be

Re: [9fans] An unsuccessful attempt to install on Thinkpad T43

2008-02-19 Thread Alexander Sychev
Hello! On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:55:14 +0300, Hongzheng Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For boot method, since I have both Linux and XP on my laptop already, I choose grub as multiple boot manager. That is, I select `plan9' as boot method when I am asked and don't install boot instructions into

Re: [9fans] Inferno /sys/doc: PDFs are actually PS?

2008-01-18 Thread Alexander Sychev
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:24:31 +0300, Charles Forsyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why does Inferno use the .pdf extension, then? that's what gs produced on plan 9 when i asked for pdf. i tried another program elsewhere, probably gs on linux, but it didn't fare any better. i should probably tr

Re: [9fans] Glendix?

2007-11-13 Thread Alexander Sychev
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:25:39 -0700, David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There is or at least was a framebuffer linux version of inferno to my recollection.> There is one :-). Now the implementation of the linux framebuffer support can be found in the archive of inferno mailing list,

Re: [9fans] notebooks

2006-10-30 Thread Alexander Sychev
Hi! I use IBM ThinkPad T40 , it works with vesa (I tried Philippe Anel's Radeon driver, it hasn't worked yet) and wired network. It also have (but they don't work with plan9) Cisco Aironet Wireless 802.11b and AC'97 Audio controller. Two PCMCIA socke

Re: [9fans] Anyone to try to convert Acme to full UI (w/graphics)

2006-10-24 Thread Alexander Sychev
Hi! On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:55:46 +0400, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What exactly do you mean? getting rid of menus, and of rio, if possible. wopukld also *love* to see a single command window instead of taglines (maybe my fault, but I can only move to thhe beginning or end, but not real

Re: [9fans] Anyone to try to convert Acme to full UI (w/graphics)

2006-10-23 Thread Alexander Sychev
Not yet. I'm going to take a look at it. Thanks! On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:56:45 +0400, Eric Van Hensbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Have you looked at Omero (part of Plan B)? -eric On 10/23/06, Alexander Sychev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! What exactly do you

Re: [9fans] Anyone to try to convert Acme to full UI (w/graphics)

2006-10-23 Thread Alexander Sychev
Hi! What exactly do you mean? I use Acme like a full UI without rio under Plan9. And now I'm developing a new Acme-like window manager for Inferno that will support graphics. I'm doing it very slowly, so results will be as soon as possible... On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:30:27 +0400, <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [9fans] Radeon driver

2006-10-20 Thread Alexander Sychev
Hi! That is pity, but it doesn't work :-(. I have got a "chatoyant" screen with a disappearing kernel output. The system doesn't react to any commands and I can only poweroff the laptop. I'm going to try to get some logs from aux/vga. On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:30:04 +0400, Anel Philippe <[EMAIL

Re: [9fans] Radeon driver

2006-10-18 Thread Alexander Sychev
I think, it can be fixed by changing type of mmio from "ulong" to "ulong*". To tell the truth, I don't quite understand how it could be compiled early. It seems, radeon.c in aux/vga can't be compiled too: <---> 8c -FVw radeon.c radeon.c:393 incompatib

Re: [9fans] Radeon driver

2006-10-18 Thread Alexander Sychev
Hi, 9fans! On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:06:02 +0400, Philippe Anel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I used to work on this driver, but these last days/months(years?), I hadn't enough time to work on it. However, I think I can help you here. I'll send you my latest vgaradeon.c tomorrow. Ok

[9fans] Radeon driver

2006-10-17 Thread Alexander Sychev
Hi, 9fans! I have installed Plan9 on my IBM ThinkPad T40 and it works fine with vesa and wired networking. But I can't compile Philippe Anel's radeon driver. <---> term% mk 'CONF=pcf' 8c -FVw vgaradeon.c vgaradeon.c:274 not a member of struct/union:

Re: [9fans] install problems

2005-11-21 Thread Alexander Sychev
Hi! Yes, I did. I didn't have any problems. But it was some time ago. The latest ISO image ( from 11 november 2005 ) I used only for updating. And I didn't have any problems too. On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 05:41:35 +0300, YAMANASHI Takeshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Did anyone install the IS