[9fans] Plan9 VICE port

[9fans] Plan9 VICE port

[Marco van den Heuvel]

Hiya,

I'm one of the currently active developers of the VICE
emulator package, this package emulates 8-bit cbm
computers (c64, c128, cbm-2, plus4, vic20, pet), and
is located at http://www.viceteam.org

I've made the needed changes to VICE to make it
compile for Plan9, it is done by using the X11
distribution for Plan9.

The test platform I'm using is Plan9 inside vmware,
but I'm not able to start X11 to test VICE, whenever I
use startx I get the error that it cannot open
/dev/draw/new.

Is there any-1 willing to help me by giving me
instructions on how to start X11, or any-1 that has
X11 running on Plan9 willing to test the package for
me ?

Signed, Marco van den Heuvel.


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Re: [9fans] Plan9 VICE port

[andrey mirtchovski]

> Is there any-1 willing to help me by giving me
> instructions on how to start X11, or any-1 that has
> X11 running on Plan9 willing to test the package for
> me ?

% ape/X11/X

then in another window:

% DISPLAY=:0
% ape/X11/twm


i apologize for knowing this.

Re: [9fans] Plan9 VICE port

[Marco van den Heuvel]

-----Original Message-----
From: LiteStar numnums <litestar@gmail.com>
To: blackystardust68@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 13:58:43 -0400
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 VICE port

> I would most certainly be willing to help you with
> this. I'll setup X on a spare 9 box asap. Do you
have
> a patch against your current tree, a full tarball or
> what? Just give me the location, I'll do any testing
> you would like. Cheers!
>  -- Stefan

Maybe I should state my case more clearly, cause I'm
confused about what you mean with setting up X on a
sparc box.

VICE is already ported to unix, this includes
sparc-linux, sparc-sunos, sparc-solaris, sparc-netbsd,
so for those platforms I don't need any help.

The platform I have ported VICE to is
i386-lucent-plan9, with X11 running on plan9, however,
I can't seem to get X11 started on my plan9 test
machine.

So the thing I am confused about is what you mean by
setting up X on your sparc box, if you are trying to
say that that is X11 on sparc-lucent-plan9 then I'll
need to send you a source tar ball. If you're saying
you can somehow emulate i386-lucent-plan9 on your
sparc box then I'll need to send you the binary tar
ball.

If however you are talking about something completely
different then I'm afraid I'll have to ask you to
clarify what you mean.

Signed, Marco van den Heuvel.


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Re: [9fans] Plan9 VICE port

[LiteStar numnums]

Not 'sparc' but 'spare'. All my sparc boxen run BSD. =)

On 6/4/05, Marco van den Heuvel <blackystardust68@yahoo.com> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LiteStar numnums <litestar@gmail.com>
> To: blackystardust68@yahoo.com
> Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 13:58:43 -0400
> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 VICE port
> 
> > I would most certainly be willing to help you with
> > this. I'll setup X on a spare 9 box asap. Do you
> have
> > a patch against your current tree, a full tarball or
> > what? Just give me the location, I'll do any testing
> > you would like. Cheers!
> >  -- Stefan
> 
> Maybe I should state my case more clearly, cause I'm
> confused about what you mean with setting up X on a
> sparc box.
> 
> VICE is already ported to unix, this includes
> sparc-linux, sparc-sunos, sparc-solaris, sparc-netbsd,
> so for those platforms I don't need any help.
> 
> The platform I have ported VICE to is
> i386-lucent-plan9, with X11 running on plan9, however,
> I can't seem to get X11 started on my plan9 test
> machine.
> 
> So the thing I am confused about is what you mean by
> setting up X on your sparc box, if you are trying to
> say that that is X11 on sparc-lucent-plan9 then I'll
> need to send you a source tar ball. If you're saying
> you can somehow emulate i386-lucent-plan9 on your
> sparc box then I'll need to send you the binary tar
> ball.
> 
> If however you are talking about something completely
> different then I'm afraid I'll have to ask you to
> clarify what you mean.
> 
> Signed, Marco van den Heuvel.
> 
> 
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Re: [9fans] Plan9 VICE port

[Marco van den Heuvel]

-----Original Message-----
From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
<9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 12:37:28 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 VICE port

> % ape/X11/X

As soon as I do this I get :

Fatal server error:

Cannot open /dev/draw/new
last plan 9 error:

> then in another window:
> 
> % DISPLAY=:0
> % ape/X11/twm

Since X11 doesn't even start up the above won't do
anything either.

Signed, Marco van den Heuvel.



		
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Re: [9fans] Plan9 VICE port

[andrey mirtchovski]

>> % ape/X11/X
> 
> As soon as I do this I get :
> 
> Fatal server error:
> 
> Cannot open /dev/draw/new
> last plan 9 error:

in Plan 9 X runs in a window within the default Plan 9 graphical
environment -- rio.

rio should be started when you start the machine if you have a
supported vga card.  just in case, here's how you get /dev/draw in:

plan9% cat mrio
#!/bin/rc

aux/mouse ps2intellimouse
aux/vga -l 1280x1024x24
exec rio -s
plan9% 

for more information see the plan 9 wiki, which has instructions on
handling vga issues

Re: [9fans] Plan9 VICE port

[Russ Cox]

It sounds like you don't have any graphics.
Is your screen in text or graphics mode?
First you need to run aux/vga to get it into
graphics mode.


On 6/4/05, Marco van den Heuvel <blackystardust68@yahoo.com> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
> <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
> Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 12:37:28 -0600 (MDT)
> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 VICE port
> 
> > % ape/X11/X
> 
> As soon as I do this I get :
> 
> Fatal server error:
> 
> Cannot open /dev/draw/new
> last plan 9 error:
> 
> > then in another window:
> >
> > % DISPLAY=:0
> > % ape/X11/twm
> 
> Since X11 doesn't even start up the above won't do
> anything either.
> 
> Signed, Marco van den Heuvel.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [9fans] Plan9 VICE port

[Marco van den Heuvel]

-----Original Message-----
From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 13:02:27 -0600
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 VICE port

> in Plan 9 X runs in a window within the default Plan
> 9 graphical environment -- rio.
> 
> rio should be started when you start the machine if
> you have a supported vga card.  just in case, here's

Rio was running on my system but it still gavce the
same error, it finally occured to me that /dev/draw
might be locked or something, so I did

disk/kfscmd allow
disk/ksync

and after doing that X11 was able to start up.

My port didn't work though, so it will need alot more
work to get it working, whgich I plan to do somewhere
in the future.

Thanx for all your help.

Signed, Marco van den Heuvel.


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