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* [9fans] Aki's drawterm-fb, THX/THNX img
@ 2011-11-16 15:15 Sergey Kish
  2011-11-16 15:23 ` ron minnich
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Sergey Kish @ 2011-11-16 15:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

Hello

9vx is great, but it requires X11. And X11 badly impact performance of
my netbook. It's strange. With recent linux kernel `mplayer -vo fbdev`
able to play HD video from VT. Not bad I think.

So I want to get rid of X11. Run 9vx headless and drawterm to it.
Luckily there is Aki's drawterm-fb. Ron mentioned it in THX/THNX
posts. But I can't find it. No sources no THX/THNX image that can
contain it.

Please share both drowterm-fb and THNX image.

Thanks



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* Re: [9fans] Aki's drawterm-fb, THX/THNX img
  2011-11-16 15:15 [9fans] Aki's drawterm-fb, THX/THNX img Sergey Kish
@ 2011-11-16 15:23 ` ron minnich
  2011-11-16 15:33   ` Sergey Kish
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: ron minnich @ 2011-11-16 15:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs

x11 is not that big of an impact on a netbook. I suspect your real
problem is some horrible X desktop a la Gnome.

Get something like FLWM (very light weight) or Rio and run 9vx in that
environment. I've done that and it's very fast.

The drawterm-fb had issues and I don't recommend you spending a lot of
time to try to find it.

ron



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* Re: [9fans] Aki's drawterm-fb, THX/THNX img
  2011-11-16 15:23 ` ron minnich
@ 2011-11-16 15:33   ` Sergey Kish
  2011-11-16 15:40     ` ron minnich
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Sergey Kish @ 2011-11-16 15:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs

Nope.

I run wmii. There is a problem on that particular hardware (GMA 500).
Pain for a three years. And now finally with reinvented driver it's
amazing fast. But X plays badly.

I'm sure I can't fix X.
Only wait.

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 5:23 PM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> x11 is not that big of an impact on a netbook. I suspect your real
> problem is some horrible X desktop a la Gnome.
>
> Get something like FLWM (very light weight) or Rio and run 9vx in that
> environment. I've done that and it's very fast.
>
> The drawterm-fb had issues and I don't recommend you spending a lot of
> time to try to find it.
>
> ron
>
>



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* Re: [9fans] Aki's drawterm-fb, THX/THNX img
  2011-11-16 15:33   ` Sergey Kish
@ 2011-11-16 15:40     ` ron minnich
  2011-11-17 10:54       ` hiro
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: ron minnich @ 2011-11-16 15:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs

http://web.archive.org/web/20100811112912/http://www.9grid.net/

It might be there.

ron



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* Re: [9fans] Aki's drawterm-fb, THX/THNX img
  2011-11-16 15:40     ` ron minnich
@ 2011-11-17 10:54       ` hiro
  2011-11-17 12:02         ` David du Colombier
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: hiro @ 2011-11-17 10:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs

Can't inferno run on fb or how does hellaphone work?



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* Re: [9fans] Aki's drawterm-fb, THX/THNX img
  2011-11-17 10:54       ` hiro
@ 2011-11-17 12:02         ` David du Colombier
  2011-11-17 15:05           ` Joseph Stewart
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: David du Colombier @ 2011-11-17 12:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

> Can't inferno run on fb or how does hellaphone work?

Yes, it can.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.inferno.general/5342

And that's not new :-)

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.inferno.general/2123

--
David du Colombier



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* Re: [9fans] Aki's drawterm-fb, THX/THNX img
  2011-11-17 12:02         ` David du Colombier
@ 2011-11-17 15:05           ` Joseph Stewart
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Joseph Stewart @ 2011-11-17 15:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs

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Charles/Santucco,

Are you open to this getting merged into the inferno-os repo on googlecode?

-joe

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:02 AM, David du Colombier <0intro@gmail.com>wrote:

> > Can't inferno run on fb or how does hellaphone work?
>
> Yes, it can.
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.inferno.general/5342
>
> And that's not new :-)
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.inferno.general/2123
>
> --
> David du Colombier
>
>

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