emu on N800; any experience with gtk or similar toolkits?

After someone in #9fans prompted me to notice that my file simply got
truncated, I've now got emu running on the Linux/arm-based Nokia N800.
The Inferno side just worked with a current inferno-os checkout; the
hard part was working with the Linux cross-development environment
Nokia uses (scratchbox) and getting X libraries and headers in the
right places.

The next hurdle is the fact that the default UI is all Gtk,
specifically something called Hildon. Has anyone done anything to make
inferno/wm play nicely with these types of toolkits? In particular,
it'd be nice to get their pseudo-keyboard text input method.

Lacking that, I'm going to just try and convince it to go full-screen
and use wm/keyboard, but I'm not sure how tight a hold the Gtk-based
stuff has on the screen. I'll let you know if I get any good results.
Anthony

mouse wheel scrolling

Hi,
I just managed to install inferno on FreeBSD 7.0. I was wondering if
there is a way to enable mouse wheel scrolling in wm's windows (charon
- in particular).
Thanks in advance.

manuals

ipengine boot

Idle Proc

I've been running inferno native in VmWare fusion.  I am using our
plan 9 environment PXE boot it which works well.  I noticed that my
laptop, an apple MacBook Pro, was overheating when running the inferno
guest.  I've seen this once behavior once before where the OS I was
playing with lacked the cpu HLT instruction in the idle process.

Is this missing form the native inferno kernel?  If so is it intentional?

Ian

octopus distribution

Hi,

 there's a new octopus distribution at http://lsub.org/ls/octopus.html
It can be used, for example, as a way to use a remote Plan 9 machine
using any other system as a terminal.

The main tar ball includes Inferno with a pre-installed octopus and
a installation script so that it should be trivial to install and use it.

A tutorial can be found linked from the url above.

Programs included like omero, olive, oxport, etc. may be used without
using the rest of the octopus.

Also, a set of Plan 9 programs for use with the octopus are available
as a separate tar ball from the same url. This includes mouse redirectors
among other things.

Enjoy

Recent emu binaries from google code for linux and windows

Hi,

anyone happens to have a recent emu binary built from google
code for Linux and/or windows?

I dont have linux and windows machines at hand and would like
to avoid having to install one just to build emu.

thanks a lot in any case.

Brick

Just out of interest, does anyone here remember what Edition of Inferno the VPN Firewall Brick uses?
Is it a custom config, or mostly stock?

Thanks!

RE: compiling Inferno on Windows

>Visual Studio .NET / VC7
That being the case, the differences between VS.Net and 2005 are less than VS6, so using 2005 or 2008 ought
not be too difficult...

Remember how to fix the "mk: don't know how to make 'dev'" error?
I recall getting stuck here before last time I tried to compile it... but obviously others have gotten it to work....

Thanks in advance!

-Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: inferno-list-admin@... on behalf of C H Forsyth
Sent: Mon 4/21/2008 2:44 PM
To: inferno-list@...
Subject: Re: [inferno-list] compiling Inferno on Windows

>1. For the official builds from Vita Nuova, what compilers are used?  Best I can tell, VS6.

Visual Studio .NET / VC7
although we never used the Studio part or the .NET

compiling Inferno on Windows

Perhaps this has been asked before, but I couldn't find it for sure:

1. For the official builds from Vita Nuova, what compilers are used?  Best I can tell, VS6.

2. Has anyone successfully compiled hosted Inferno under VS 2005 or 2008?

3. I'm trying to build the 20080416 version from Google Code under VS 2005 + Win2003R2 SDK on WinXP.
I'm having pretty good luck, but am stuck while building emu.  I had to rebuild rcsh, but after that, here's
the last few lines of output:

rcsh ../port/mkroot emu
mk: don't know how to make 'dev'
mk: echo '@{builtin cd' ...  : exit status=exit(1)
mk: for (j in ...  : exit status=exit(1)

Anyone know why it wouldn't "know how to make dev"?  The build process works just fine on my MacOSX system...

Thanks all in advance!

-Ben

typo(?) in revision 276 of emu/Nt/os.c

code.google.com is down.

Patch is attached