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From: Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>,
	G B <g_patrickb@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Starting rio on combined CPU, file and auth
Date: Fri,  5 May 2017 01:00:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJSxfm+fVghQUX3XpwShheASrYx3huOUHLuCR+C7SdmcpOnxUA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMVULc51ARfVfCsGHe-SW+PEeMQZiHExLVg8K8bQa_7ViHnzOw@mail.gmail.com>

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A cpu server may not have a display (i.e. uses a serial console). rio runs
fine on any cpu server; your draw device determines where the display is.
On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 5:41 PM Alex Musolino <musolinoa@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Using 9front and set "service=cpu" but rio doesn't start.
>
> This is expected.  CPU servers typically don't have any reason to run
> rio.  Mine don't even have monitors attached (usually).
>
>
> > I've tried adding screenrc to /rc/bin/cpurc and /cfg/$sysname/cpustart
> > but gives me errors on /dev/draw.
>
> If you compare /rc/bin/cpurc and /rc/bin/termrc you'll see that the
> vga device (#v) is bound only in /rc/bin/termrc.  You can arrange
> this in /rc/bin/cpustart, before you include /rc/bin/screenrc, like so:
>
> bind -a '#v' /dev >/dev/null >[2=1]
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Alex Musolino
>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-05  1:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <351618734.2458204.1493931402128.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2017-05-04 20:56 ` G B
2017-05-05  0:41   ` Alex Musolino
2017-05-05  1:00     ` Skip Tavakkolian [this message]
2017-05-05  1:22       ` Alex Musolino
2017-05-05 13:24         ` Charles Forsyth

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