I think I'm going to wipe this machine later and try again with Windows 7 instead of 😜 on the theory that the tablet drivers are more likely to work on Windows 7 on account of 😜 never having been supported for this laptop, Gentoo instead of NetBSD since NetBSD doesn't seem to have drivers for this tablet, and probably this version of 9front because the release art work is literally a drawing of this laptop https://9front.org/releases/2025/01/19/0/
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I got really excited to try more things last night and re-installed 9front back to the most recent version and just clobbered the boot loader on the theory that I can fix it later. The tablet drivers still don't work though. The very kind and patient @sirjofri has been helping me sort it out though. We've got it narrowed down to aux/wacom maybe not implementing the protocol entirely correctly as a potential cause. I'll probably be diving into 9front driver development this weekend 😎
this all feels very much in the spirit of "we do these things not because they're easy but because we thought they would be easy" 😅
and that's entirely on me because a reasonable person would see all the signs on the 9front website and docs that say things like "GO AWAY! YOU ARE LOST! DO NOT INSTALL! YOUR GPS IS LYING TO YOU! TURN BACK!" and not come to the conclusion that this is a weekend project at best
i knew the color reproduction on this screen was going to be something far far away from ground turth but holy smokes this gamut is dog shit
it's kinda charmingly awful tbh
i installed windows 7 two nights ago, and the wacom drivers work fine there. i also have a svelt gentoo install now, and attempted to re-install plan9 a 4th time. somehow managed to corrupt the partition table and my swap partition disappeared but none of the partitions i actually care about were damaged. this also broke grub, but somehow by faffing around and just recreating the swap partition, i managed to fix grub, and by some miracle the pain in the ass to install OSes are both intact
the punchline is grubs magic other os detector script thinks plan9 is osx for some reason?
i'm feeling superstitious, so I'm going to delete the plan 9 partition tomorrow, move the gentoo partitions up, and make a new plan9 partition at the end of the drive on the theory that plan9's fdisk overshoots slightly when writing its partitions? I think this is how I accidentally torched my NetBSD install too.
