[9fans] Installation of 9front on Dell Mini 9, some noob questions

Alexande...@web.de

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Jan 15, 2013, 11:05:39 PM1/15/13

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Hello 9fans,

So I succeded in installing 9front on my Dell Mini 9 netbook.
It is mostly working:
* Graphics: Working VESA mode 800x600x32
* Networking: Internal network card works, internal wifi doesn't
work, but didn't expect it to.
* USB: boot from USB key works, USB mouse works.

For good measure here are the kernel messages at boot.
Below are some questions regarding these.
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term% cat /dev/kmesg

Plan 9
126 holes free
00018000 0009f000 552960
004ad000 10000000 263532544
264085504 bytes free
cpu0: 1596MHz GenuineIntel Atom (cpuid: AX 0x106C2 CX 0x40C39D DX 0xBFE9FBFF)
LAPIC: fee00000 e0000000
ELCR: 0CA0
rtl8169: oui 0x20 phyno 1, macv = 0x24800000 phyv = 0x0001
#l0: rtl8169: 100Mbps port 0x2000 irq 11: 0024e897eb84
#A0: hda mem e0002000 irq 10
#A0: codec #0, vendor 10ec0268, rev 00100101
2039M memory: 256M kernel data, 1782M user, 2407M swap

/dev/sdC0: RunCore SSD
/dev/sdC0/9fat dos
/dev/sdC0/data
/dev/sdC0/dos
/dev/sdC0/fscache cwfs64x
/dev/sdC0/fsworm
/dev/sdC0/nvram
/dev/sdC0/other
/dev/sdC0/plan9
bootargs is (tcp, il, local!device) [local!/dev/sdC0/fscache]
user[glenda]:
bad nvram key
bad authentication id
bad authentication domain
nvrcheck: can't read nvram
current fs is "main"
10 uids read, 3 groups used
63-bit cwfs as of Wed Jan 9 06:13:52 2013
last boot Fri Jan 4 03:24:16 2013

init: starting /bin/rc
mpintrenable: out of choices eisa -1 isa 5 tbdf FFFFFFFF irq 7
intrenable: couldn't enable irq 7, tbdf 0xFFFFFFFF for lpt
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So here are my questions:
- The last two lines look strange (as if something is
broken). What do they mean?
- Can I expect audio to work? How do I verify that
audio is working?

Many thanks in advance for your help.

Best Regards,

Alexander

erik quanstrom

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Jan 15, 2013, 11:23:56 PM1/15/13

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> init: starting /bin/rc
> mpintrenable: out of choices eisa -1 isa 5 tbdf FFFFFFFF irq 7
> intrenable: couldn't enable irq 7, tbdf 0xFFFFFFFF for lpt
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>
> So here are my questions:
> - The last two lines look strange (as if something is
> broken). What do they mean?

it probablly means that it looks like you have a parallel printer port
to the software, but you don't and there is no interrupt vector for it.

> - Can I expect audio to work? How do I verify that
> audio is working?

hget http://adstorage.jamba.net/storage/view/325/0/th/Theme2.mp3|games/mp3dec

- erik

erik quanstrom

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Jan 15, 2013, 11:49:13 PM1/15/13

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On Tue Jan 15 23:46:23 EST 2013, cinap_...@gmx.de wrote:
> please, do not post 9front questions to 9fans. post to
> 9fr...@googlegroups.com or ask in the irc channel.
>

this looks like a generic plan 9 question to me. or is your
point to dilute the pool?

- erik

cinap_...@gmx.de

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Jan 15, 2013, 11:45:16 PM1/15/13

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please, do not post 9front questions to 9fans. post to
9fr...@googlegroups.com or ask in the irc channel.

> mpintrenable: out of choices eisa -1 isa 5 tbdf FFFFFFFF irq 7
> intrenable: couldn't enable irq 7, tbdf 0xFFFFFFFF for lpt

this means that your mps tables do have the isa irq 7 entry,
so the parallel port driver will be unable to use interrupts.

it will probably still work with polling. do you even have
a parallel port? ;)

another thing you could do is try *acpi= in plan9.ini.
it will identity map all isa irq's to gsi 0-15 except for
the ones that have a special override entry in the apic
table, so all isa irq's should be there with that method.

> #A0: hda mem e0002000 irq 10
> #A0: codec #0, vendor 10ec0268, rev 00100101

this is your soundcard. to test if it works, you can just
cat some file into /dev/audio like:

cat /bin/* >/dev/audio

or if you have internet connection:

play http://9hal.ath.cx/usr/cinap_lenrek/plan9-jingle2.mp3

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cinap

cinap_...@gmx.de

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Jan 15, 2013, 11:51:17 PM1/15/13

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this is why you should not ask 9fans:

> hget http://adstorage.jamba.net/storage/view/325/0/th/Theme2.mp3|games/mp3dec

theres no games/mp3dec in 9front.

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Kurt H Maier

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Jan 15, 2013, 11:55:46 PM1/15/13

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his point is that half the time someone brings up 9front here they get
bitched at and told to take it to the 9front list. stop with the
mccarthy shit; he's just trying to keep the noise down.

erik quanstrom

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Jan 15, 2013, 11:59:04 PM1/15/13

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and this is why making stuff incompatabile for no benefit is not a good idea.

i think richard's pi work is really quite good stuff. there's nothing extra.
it's just a pi. the rest of us tend to fall in the trap of trying to change things
that are not relevant.

well. most of the rest. and i'm part of the most.

- erik

cinap_...@gmx.de

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Jan 16, 2013, 12:01:03 AM1/16/13

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sorry. but he just asked how to test if audio works on his
9front installation and you giving him commands that will
not work on his machine.

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Alexander Shendi (Web.de)

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Jan 16, 2013, 12:16:08 AM1/16/13

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Sorry for the noise. I wasn't aware that there was a separate 9front
mailing list. I will ask further questions there. FWIW audio works.

Thank you for your help,

Alexander

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