[9fans] Issues with USB mouse in 9atom

[9fans] Issues with USB mouse in 9atom

[Roswell Grey]

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Hello everyone!

After obtaining a disk drive for an old PC I've had for a little while, I
was overjoyed to turn it into a dedicated 9 machine. I realized could have
a second server as part of my 9junk grid! However, it seems the original
site from bell labs is down, and that since 9front apparently can't find a
bootstrap processor, so I decided to give 9atom a try. It installed
successfully, minus this "spurious interrupt 39" message everywhere.

However, there seems to be an issue using the mouse. It's just a generic
black dell USB mouse. Whenever I right click to open a window (or use the
menu at all), it seems as if it detects the release much too early, and
doesn't always give me time to choose the correct option. Before I go out
to buy a new mouse (which I don't mind at all, considering money is no
object for my love for 9), is there anything I can write into a config file
of some sort, or edit and recompile in a driver?

Thanks for your help and/or any advice you can offer. Long live Plan 9!

-R

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Re: [9fans] Issues with USB mouse in 9atom

[erik quanstrom]

> After obtaining a disk drive for an old PC I've had for a little while, I
> was overjoyed to turn it into a dedicated 9 machine. I realized could have
> a second server as part of my 9junk grid! However, it seems the original
> site from bell labs is down, and that since 9front apparently can't find a
> bootstrap processor, so I decided to give 9atom a try. It installed
> successfully, minus this "spurious interrupt 39" message everywhere.
>
> However, there seems to be an issue using the mouse. It's just a generic
> black dell USB mouse. Whenever I right click to open a window (or use the
> menu at all), it seems as if it detects the release much too early, and
> doesn't always give me time to choose the correct option. Before I go out
> to buy a new mouse (which I don't mind at all, considering money is no
> object for my love for 9), is there anything I can write into a config file
> of some sort, or edit and recompile in a driver?

i don't see any confirmation, but it looks like the install was from the cd image?
if so, i recommend using the usb install image instead

	http://ftp.9atom.org/other/usbinstamd64.bz2

this *should* fix all those issues.  posting a few details on the processor might
be helpful in figuring out any issues.

- erik

Re: [9fans] Issues with USB mouse in 9atom

[cinap_lenrek]

your mp tables are fucked, boot with "*acpi=" boot parameter. see the
fqa how to get to the > prompt to enter it.

--
cinap

Re: [9fans] Issues with USB mouse in 9atom

[Roswell Grey]

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Yeah, I installed from the CD. But that image is for amd64, correct? a 64
bit processor? My junk computer is an old gateway, with a celeron D, a
whopping 256 MB of ram, and a full 100 GB hard disk space. But since this
is 32 bit to my knowledge, would a possible solution involve making a
bootable flash disk from this distribution within my installation?

>
>
> i don't see any confirmation, but it looks like the install was from the
> cd image?
> if so, i recommend using the usb install image instead
>
>         http://ftp.9atom.org/other/usbinstamd64.bz2
>
> this *should* fix all those issues.  posting a few details on the
> processor might
> be helpful in figuring out any issues.
>
> - erik
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 13:21:30 +0200
> From: cinap_lenrek@felloff.net
> To: 9fans@9fans.net
> Subject: Re: [9fans] Issues with USB mouse in 9atom
> Message-ID: <bff27665ff4587cf3de79e563555a2b9@felloff.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>
> your mp tables are fucked, boot with "*acpi=" boot parameter. see the
> fqa how to get to the > prompt to enter it.
>
> --
> cinap
>
>
>
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>

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Re: [9fans] Issues with USB mouse in 9atom

[erik quanstrom]

> Yeah, I installed from the CD. But that image is for amd64, correct? a 64
> bit processor? My junk computer is an old gateway, with a celeron D, a
> whopping 256 MB of ram, and a full 100 GB hard disk space. But since this
> is 32 bit to my knowledge, would a possible solution involve making a
> bootable flash disk from this distribution within my installation?
>
> > i don't see any confirmation, but it looks like the install was from the
> > cd image?
> > if so, i recommend using the usb install image instead
> >
> >         http://ftp.9atom.org/other/usbinstamd64.bz2
> >
> > this *should* fix all those issues.  posting a few details on the
> > processor might
> > be helpful in figuring out any issues.

either 32 or 64 bit kernels can be built from the usb image.

- erik

Re: [9fans] Issues with USB mouse in 9atom

[erik quanstrom]

I mentioned booted.  

- erik


On Sep 22, 2015 2:58 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>
> > Yeah, I installed from the CD. But that image is for amd64, correct? a 64 
> > bit processor? My junk computer is an old gateway, with a celeron D, a 
> > whopping 256 MB of ram, and a full 100 GB hard disk space. But since this 
> > is 32 bit to my knowledge, would a possible solution involve making a 
> > bootable flash disk from this distribution within my installation? 
> > 
> > > i don't see any confirmation, but it looks like the install was from the 
> > > cd image? 
> > > if so, i recommend using the usb install image instead 
> > > 
> > >         http://ftp.9atom.org/other/usbinstamd64.bz2 
> > > 
> > > this *should* fix all those issues.  posting a few details on the 
> > > processor might 
> > > be helpful in figuring out any issues. 
>
> either 32 or 64 bit kernels can be built from the usb image. 
>
> - erik 
>
>

Re: [9fans] Issues with USB mouse in 9atom

[erik quanstrom]

On Tue Sep 22 17:47:17 PDT 2015, quanstro@quanstro.net wrote:
> I mentioned booted.  
> 
> - erik
> 
> 
> On Sep 22, 2015 2:58 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Yeah, I installed from the CD. But that image is for amd64, correct? a 64 
> > > bit processor? My junk computer is an old gateway, with a celeron D, a 
> > > whopping 256 MB of ram, and a full 100 GB hard disk space. But since this 
> > > is 32 bit to my knowledge, would a possible solution involve making a 
> > > bootable flash disk from this distribution within my installation? 
> > > 
> > > > i don't see any confirmation, but it looks like the install was from the 
> > > > cd image? 
> > > > if so, i recommend using the usb install image instead 
> > > > 
> > > >         http://ftp.9atom.org/other/usbinstamd64.bz2 
> > > > 
> > > > this *should* fix all those issues.  posting a few details on the 
> > > > processor might 
> > > > be helpful in figuring out any issues. 
> >
> > either 32 or 64 bit kernels can be built from the usb image. 

well, autocorrect ftw!  that was supposed to say, both the 32- and 64-bit 
kernels can be /booted/ from the usb image, so your hardware should be
fine.

- erik