[9fans] Installation of 9front on Dell Mini 9, some noob questions

[9fans] Installation of 9front on Dell Mini 9, some noob questions

[Alexander.Shendi]

Hello 9fans,

So I succeded in installing 9front on my Dell Mini 9 netbook.
It is mostly working:
* Graphics: Working VESA mode 800x600x32
* Networking: Internal network card works, internal wifi doesn't
  work, but didn't expect it to.
* USB: boot from USB key works, USB mouse works.


For good measure here are the kernel messages at boot.
Below are some questions regarding these.
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term% cat /dev/kmesg

Plan 9
126 holes free
00018000 0009f000 552960
004ad000 10000000 263532544
264085504 bytes free
cpu0: 1596MHz GenuineIntel Atom (cpuid: AX 0x106C2 CX 0x40C39D DX 0xBFE9FBFF)
LAPIC: fee00000 e0000000
ELCR: 0CA0
rtl8169: oui 0x20 phyno 1, macv = 0x24800000 phyv = 0x0001
#l0: rtl8169: 100Mbps port 0x2000 irq 11: 0024e897eb84
#A0: hda mem e0002000 irq 10
#A0: codec #0, vendor 10ec0268, rev 00100101
2039M memory: 256M kernel data, 1782M user, 2407M swap

/dev/sdC0: RunCore SSD
/dev/sdC0/9fat	 dos
/dev/sdC0/data
/dev/sdC0/dos
/dev/sdC0/fscache	 cwfs64x
/dev/sdC0/fsworm
/dev/sdC0/nvram
/dev/sdC0/other
/dev/sdC0/plan9
bootargs is (tcp, il, local!device) [local!/dev/sdC0/fscache]
user[glenda]:
bad nvram key
bad authentication id
bad authentication domain
nvrcheck: can't read nvram
current fs is "main"
10 uids read, 3 groups used
63-bit cwfs as of Wed Jan  9 06:13:52 2013
	last boot Fri Jan  4 03:24:16 2013

init: starting /bin/rc
mpintrenable: out of choices eisa -1 isa 5 tbdf FFFFFFFF irq 7
intrenable: couldn't enable irq 7, tbdf 0xFFFFFFFF for lpt
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So here are my questions:
- The last two lines look strange (as if something is
  broken). What do they mean?
- Can I expect audio to work? How do I verify that
  audio is working?

Many thanks in advance for your help.

Best Regards,

Alexander

Re: [9fans] Installation of 9front on Dell Mini 9, some noob questions

[erik quanstrom]

> init: starting /bin/rc
> mpintrenable: out of choices eisa -1 isa 5 tbdf FFFFFFFF irq 7
> intrenable: couldn't enable irq 7, tbdf 0xFFFFFFFF for lpt
> ---------------------------------------
>
> So here are my questions:
> - The last two lines look strange (as if something is
>   broken). What do they mean?

it probablly means that it looks like you have a parallel printer port
to the software, but you don't and there is no interrupt vector for it.

> - Can I expect audio to work? How do I verify that
>   audio is working?

hget http://adstorage.jamba.net/storage/view/325/0/th/Theme2.mp3|games/mp3dec

- erik

Re: [9fans] Installation of 9front on Dell Mini 9, some noob questions

[cinap_lenrek]

this is why you should not ask 9fans:

> hget http://adstorage.jamba.net/storage/view/325/0/th/Theme2.mp3|games/mp3dec

theres no games/mp3dec in 9front.

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cinap

Re: [9fans] Installation of 9front on Dell Mini 9, some noob questions

[erik quanstrom]

On Tue Jan 15 23:52:31 EST 2013, cinap_lenrek@gmx.de wrote:
> this is why you should not ask 9fans:
>
> > hget http://adstorage.jamba.net/storage/view/325/0/th/Theme2.mp3|games/mp3dec
>
> theres no games/mp3dec in 9front.

and this is why making stuff incompatabile for no benefit is not a good idea.

i think richard's pi work is really quite good stuff.  there's nothing extra.
it's just a pi.  the rest of us tend to fall in the trap of trying to change things
that are not relevant.

well. most of the rest.  and i'm part of the most.

- erik

Re: [9fans] Installation of 9front on Dell Mini 9, some noob questions

[cinap_lenrek]

please, do not post 9front questions to 9fans. post to
9front@googlegroups.com or ask in the irc channel.

> mpintrenable: out of choices eisa -1 isa 5 tbdf FFFFFFFF irq 7
> intrenable: couldn't enable irq 7, tbdf 0xFFFFFFFF for lpt

this means that your mps tables do have the isa irq 7 entry,
so the parallel port driver will be unable to use interrupts.

it will probably still work with polling. do you even have
a parallel port? ;)

another thing you could do is try *acpi= in plan9.ini.
it will identity map all isa irq's to gsi 0-15 except for
the ones that have a special override entry in the apic
table, so all isa irq's should be there with that method.

> #A0: hda mem e0002000 irq 10
> #A0: codec #0, vendor 10ec0268, rev 00100101

this is your soundcard. to test if it works, you can just
cat some file into /dev/audio like:

cat /bin/* >/dev/audio

or if you have internet connection:

play http://9hal.ath.cx/usr/cinap_lenrek/plan9-jingle2.mp3

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cinap

Re: [9fans] Installation of 9front on Dell Mini 9, some noob questions

[erik quanstrom]

On Tue Jan 15 23:46:23 EST 2013, cinap_lenrek@gmx.de wrote:
> please, do not post 9front questions to 9fans. post to
> 9front@googlegroups.com or ask in the irc channel.
>

this looks like a generic plan 9 question to me.  or is your
point to dilute the pool?

- erik

Re: [9fans] Installation of 9front on Dell Mini 9, some noob questions

[Kurt H Maier]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:49:13PM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote:
> On Tue Jan 15 23:46:23 EST 2013, cinap_lenrek@gmx.de wrote:
> > please, do not post 9front questions to 9fans. post to
> > 9front@googlegroups.com or ask in the irc channel.
> >
>
> this looks like a generic plan 9 question to me.  or is your
> point to dilute the pool?
>
> - erik
>

his point is that half the time someone brings up 9front here they get
bitched at and told to take it to the 9front list.  stop with the
mccarthy shit; he's just trying to keep the noise down.

Re: [9fans] Installation of 9front on Dell Mini 9, some noob questions

[cinap_lenrek]

sorry. but he just asked how to test if audio works on his
9front installation and you giving him commands that will
not work on his machine.

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cinap

Re: [9fans] Installation of 9front on Dell Mini 9, some noob questions

[Alexander Shendi (Web.de)]

Sorry for the noise. I wasn't aware that there was a separate 9front
mailing list. I will ask further questions there. FWIW audio works.

Thank you for your help,

Alexander





cinap_lenrek@gmx.de schrieb:

>please, do not post 9front questions to 9fans. post to
>9front@googlegroups.com or ask in the irc channel.
>
>> mpintrenable: out of choices eisa -1 isa 5 tbdf FFFFFFFF irq 7
>> intrenable: couldn't enable irq 7, tbdf 0xFFFFFFFF for lpt
>
>this means that your mps tables do have the isa irq 7 entry,
>so the parallel port driver will be unable to use interrupts.
>
>it will probably still work with polling. do you even have
>a parallel port? ;)
>
>another thing you could do is try *acpi= in plan9.ini.
>it will identity map all isa irq's to gsi 0-15 except for
>the ones that have a special override entry in the apic
>table, so all isa irq's should be there with that method.
>
>> #A0: hda mem e0002000 irq 10
>> #A0: codec #0, vendor 10ec0268, rev 00100101
>
>this is your soundcard. to test if it works, you can just
>cat some file into /dev/audio like:
>
>cat /bin/* >/dev/audio
>
>or if you have internet connection:
>
>play http://9hal.ath.cx/usr/cinap_lenrek/plan9-jingle2.mp3
>
>--
>cinap

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