Re: [9fans] loud newbie question: Trouble logging on as glenda

["Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>]

  ndb/dns: can't read my ip address (not suprising since I
  never set one)

That's fine for now.

  i8259enable: irq 7 shared but not level
  intrenable: couldn't enable irq 7, tdbf 0xFFFFFFFF for
  lpt

This means the printer driver is trying to
grab irq 7 for itself but someone else already has it.
cat '#P/irqalloc' to find out which driver.

term% cat '#P/irqalloc'
...
         39           7 lpt
...
term%

The second column is the irq.

  When rio starts all that works is the clock and I see a
  flash of some other type of window that dies to quickly
  for me to tell what it is.

That's not such a big deal.  To get a new window,
hold down the right button, select New
from the menu, when you get the cross cursor,
hold down the right button, move the mouse
diagonally, let go of the right button.

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/1/rio 
says more about window operations.

Have fun.
Russ