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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Parallels mysteriously loosing /dev/draw
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:36:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <509fc75feb441f41a598fc4aad7ff38e@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <05E73B61-CF15-434C-A7DC-1E29D9CE0785@orthanc.ca>

> > does "aux/vga -l $vgasize" do what you expect?
> >
> No, it actually kicks the display into graphics framebuffer node.
> (That's *not* what I expected.) But this turns up a new problem: no
> data from the mouse.  /dev/mouse is there, but it returns no data.  I
> can start rio at this point, but without the mouse it doesn't do a
> whole lot ...

due to the second law of thermohorification, fixing one thing means that at
least one other thing goes broken.  perhaps your mouse:parallels connection
kept the universe's hork in balance.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-15 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-15  0:38 Lyndon Nerenberg
2013-10-15  2:30 ` erik quanstrom
2013-10-15  2:35   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2013-10-15  2:38     ` erik quanstrom
2013-10-15 20:31       ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2013-10-15 20:36         ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2013-10-16  1:22           ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2013-10-16  1:33             ` erik quanstrom
2013-10-16  1:37               ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2013-10-16  1:39                 ` erik quanstrom
2013-10-16  1:44                   ` Lyndon Nerenberg

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