From: Lucio De Re <lucio.dere@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Touchpad
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 06:22:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJQ9t7hy3ZjAmopikUiLWaSVBWy3yE4VdgxBBZju-0mApZ3EsQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871919239.640150.1537385688610@mail.yahoo.com>
On 9/19/18, G B <g_patrickb@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have 9front installed on a Lenovo N580 laptop and am using a USB mouse.
> However, the touchpad is killing me. How can I disable the touchpad so only
> the mouse moves?
>
Rather exciting, I'll keep an eye out for that option, Plan 9 (well,
9front, I do not think of them as heretic) on a (modern?) laptop is
long overdue. Cherry dropped the ball on the Yeeloong (I can see why,
no hard feelings) and that was my most recent hope.
That said, the "bios" answer prompts me to ask: Can neither Plan 9 nor
9front reach into BIOS space and perform the functions from
user/kernel space?
I cut my teeth on the fully documented IBM XT BIOS and I find it hard
to believe that today's technology has managed to shuttered all those
doorways.
Just curious. doing it in Plan 9 would really give me a warm feeling...
Lucio.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-20 4:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2018-09-19 19:34 ` G B
2018-09-20 4:22 ` Lucio De Re [this message]
2018-09-20 8:25 ` hiro
2018-09-20 10:58 ` Ethan Gardener
2018-09-20 12:18 ` Lucio De Re
2018-09-20 15:43 ` DHAN HURLEY
2018-09-20 16:44 ` Kurt H Maier
2018-09-20 16:32 ` hiro
2018-09-20 16:56 ` Lucio De Re
2018-09-20 17:19 ` hiro
2018-09-20 0:32 sl
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