* [9fans] USB Input Devices Support
@ 2009-08-16 14:33 Anthony Sherbondy
2009-08-16 14:45 ` erik quanstrom
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From: Anthony Sherbondy @ 2009-08-16 14:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
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Hi everyone,
I previously sent in a post, but I think it was completely overlooked due to
the heated discussions at the time. I have previously corresponded with
Russ Cox and Eric re: the problems I am having getting a plan9 boot on the
mac-minis that I am using.
Has anyone successfully installed plan9 using only USB input devices
(keyboard/mouse)? I have no serial ports on all of my machines. Any
pointers any of you could suggest is greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your time,
AJ Sherbondy
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* Re: [9fans] USB Input Devices Support
2009-08-16 14:33 [9fans] USB Input Devices Support Anthony Sherbondy
@ 2009-08-16 14:45 ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-18 22:17 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
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From: erik quanstrom @ 2009-08-16 14:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
> Hi everyone,
>
> I previously sent in a post, but I think it was completely overlooked due to
> the heated discussions at the time. I have previously corresponded with
> Russ Cox and Eric re: the problems I am having getting a plan9 boot on the
> mac-minis that I am using.
>
> Has anyone successfully installed plan9 using only USB input devices
> (keyboard/mouse)? I have no serial ports on all of my machines. Any
> pointers any of you could suggest is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks for your time,
> AJ Sherbondy
assuming that usb is your only problem, there's one
obvious but solvable problem. the install cd's 9load
needs kbd input to boot. this could be solved by
adding a menu timeout to the bootflop plan9.ini.
there are probablly other problems that aren't so
obvious. but fixing this (which you can do without
a running plan 9 installation) would probablly get you far.
- erik
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* Re: [9fans] USB Input Devices Support
2009-08-16 14:45 ` erik quanstrom
@ 2009-08-18 22:17 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-08-18 22:19 ` erik quanstrom
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From: Francisco J Ballesteros @ 2009-08-18 22:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Also, usb keyboard/mouse start at boot using a `boot protocol', IIRC, they look
to software as older keyboard/mouse as long as you don't touch the
usb bus. One way to go would be to remove usb code during install, but I didn't
try this as don't know if it will work on your machine.
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 4:45 PM, erik quanstrom<quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I previously sent in a post, but I think it was completely overlooked due to
>> the heated discussions at the time. I have previously corresponded with
>> Russ Cox and Eric re: the problems I am having getting a plan9 boot on the
>> mac-minis that I am using.
>>
>> Has anyone successfully installed plan9 using only USB input devices
>> (keyboard/mouse)? I have no serial ports on all of my machines. Any
>> pointers any of you could suggest is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks for your time,
>> AJ Sherbondy
>
> assuming that usb is your only problem, there's one
> obvious but solvable problem. the install cd's 9load
> needs kbd input to boot. this could be solved by
> adding a menu timeout to the bootflop plan9.ini.
>
> there are probablly other problems that aren't so
> obvious. but fixing this (which you can do without
> a running plan 9 installation) would probablly get you far.
>
> - erik
>
>
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* Re: [9fans] USB Input Devices Support
2009-08-18 22:17 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
@ 2009-08-18 22:19 ` erik quanstrom
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From: erik quanstrom @ 2009-08-18 22:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
On Tue Aug 18 18:18:50 EDT 2009, nemo@lsub.org wrote:
> Also, usb keyboard/mouse start at boot using a `boot protocol', IIRC, they look
> to software as older keyboard/mouse as long as you don't touch the
> usb bus. One way to go would be to remove usb code during install, but I didn't
> try this as don't know if it will work on your machine.
>
as long as you are using bios emulation, i guess you should
be able to get past 9load. 9load doesn't touch usb.
- erik
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