Re: [9fans] Inferno "wm/wm"

[Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>]

In article <20010308144810.C2E3F199C1@mail.cse.psu.edu> you write:
>I hope it's OK to post Inferno related topics here. If there
>is a better place please advise me.
>
>I just installed Inferno onto my Plan9 OS. Everything went well
>and followed the directions in the README.
>
>I have gotten down as far as starting the wm Window Manager.
>This is what happens:
>
>	; wm/wm
>	attachscreen: can't mount window manager: bad rectangle in attach
>	wm: cannot initialise display: initdisplay: /dev/draw/new: 
>	; 
>
>Where is the problem?

This might be a dumb question, but are you trying to run it under
acme?  Okay, I know that was a dumb question.  Did you invoke emu
with the -g option?  eg, emu -g800x600 ?  (Note the lack of a space
between the g and 8....).

	- Dan C.

(ps- there is comp.os.inferno, but lots of precedence has been set
with talking about Inferno on 9fans....)