Re: [9fans] graphics scaling

["Brian L. Stuart" <blstuart@bellsouth.net>]

> i've found it quite solid under Ubuntu 8.04,
> and i'm running an old version of 9vx.
> the last time i said that i'd had no trouble
> it promptly blew up, but apart from that i haven't
> had any trouble, once it starts up. i haven't used drawterm in ages,
> except on > windows.

The main issue I had was in the (probably unusual)
case where I was booting off a Plan 9 partition on
my local machine and running fossil/venti.  I would
sometimes get hangs that seemed to be stuck in infinite
loops.  I don't recall running into any real issues
when using it as a terminal taking its root from
a file server.  But even running fossil/venti on
a local partition, I haven't had any issues in FreeBSD,
so whatever the issue is/was, it's probably somewhere
in the way they do threading/locking differently.

Just by way of context, when I'm at home and my file
server is reachable, I run it as a terminal.  When I'm
not at home (work, Starbucks, Lower Sloblovia, etc)
I boot it up using a local Plan 9 partition.  Either
way, I'm pretty much running it all the time from my
.xinitrc script.  For that matter, it's been a while
since I last used the p9p acme.  I've been doing more
and more from 9vx.

BLS