On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 7:06 PM, ken mays <maybird1776 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> About Belenix 0.7.1..
>
> 1. Was there a interim release as the official stable driver release from 
> Nvidia is 173.14.09: 
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/solaris_display_173.14.09.html
>
> The latest driver is Nvidia 177.13 at: 
> http://us.download.nvidia.com/solaris/177.13/NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-177.13.run
>
> The reason I'd asked for a previous upgrade during the TEST phase was in 
> reviewing the Nvidia GTX 280 card and reports of crashes with Flash 
> animations through FireFox website browsing. The new drivers corrected a few 
> problems we had in testing the Nvidia GTX 280 which is why it was suggested 
> to the Belenix team to update the Nvidia drivers from 173.14.05.....

   The driver 177.13 causes problems with some Nvidia cards. My GeForce 7300
   gives garbled display. I had a report from another person I can't remember of
   problems with this one.

Regards,
Moinak.

>
> ~ Ken Mays
>
>
>
> --- On Fri, 7/18/08, S h i v <shivakumar.gn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: S h i v <shivakumar.gn at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [belenix-dev] BeleniX 0.7.1 update release available
>> To: "Bangalore OpenSolaris User Group" <ug-bosug at opensolaris.org>, 
>> "Belenix Discuss" <belenix-discuss at opensolaris.org>, "BeleniX 
>> Development" <belenix-dev at opensolaris.org>, "Advocacy Mailing List" 
>> <advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org>, distribution-discuss at 
>> opensolaris.org, opensolaris-announce at opensolaris.org
>> Date: Friday, July 18, 2008, 10:31 PM
>> Hello All,
>>
>> The first update to the 0.7 release is now available. Give
>> it a try
>> and provide us the feedback.
>>
>> Download location : http://www.belenix.org/download
>> (torrent is not yet available. will be available soon)
>>
>> Bugs/Feature Requests may be logged at
>> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=216118
>>
>> This update brings in the latest development OpenSolaris
>> build 93,
>> updates to KDE 3.5.9, firefox 3.0.1, ability to create
>> zones among
>> other changes, bugfixes. This release includes the latest
>> Caiman
>> installer due to which upgrades from this release will
>> become possible
>> going forward.
>>
>> Complete list of changes:
>>
>>     * Based on ON Build 93 that has new drivers (like
>> ATIgfx) among other stuff.
>>     * Included the rum driver.
>>     * Nvidia driver updated to 173.14.05.
>>     * OSS updated to 4.0-1016.
>>     * Updated Fully Open X bits.
>>     * KDE updated to 3.5.9 and some upstream patches
>> removed
>>     * Firefox 3.0.1
>>     * /sbin/sh is now ksh93.
>>     * Sham's RAM based Boot integrated. In Grub screen
>> select more
>> options to see that boot option.
>>       Install from RAM is possible and is *fast*. See
>> Sham's Blog for
>> details
>> (http://blogs.sun.com/sham/entry/belenix_0_7_can_boot).
>>     * Caiman Installer updated to current version. Grub
>> boot entries
>> for Windows partitions are now automatically added.
>> Detecting Linux
>> partitions is a work in progress.
>>     * Added PowerTOP.
>>     * Added XVM PV drivers to support booting inside domU.
>>     * Qt 3.x is now built in both 32Bit and 64Bit versions.
>>     * Gtk-Qt3 is fixed to build with proper Solaris build
>> flags so the
>> nagging warning about /proc/.../cmdline does not appear.
>>     * Updated man pages to new release.
>>     * OpenMotif updated to fix some brokenness.
>>     * Ability to create zones via ZFS snapshots. See
>> http://www.belenix.org/content/How-do-I-create-Zones-BeleniX
>> ?.
>>     * Added Single-User Console boot option when booting
>> from harddisk.
>>     * Many bugfixes. Fixed Usbdump in livecd mode.
>>     * More packages available via get-pkgs utility
>> including various
>> multimedia stuff. New pkg.belenix.org repository now
>> online. This is
>> Not yet an IPS repository however.
>>     * OpenSolaris G11N packages now available in the
>> repository.
>>     * Setting is applied during install to trim ZFS ARC to
>> 50% of RAM
>> if there is 1GB RAM or less.
>>
>> Pending Issues
>>
>>     * Sendmail cribs while booting off harddisk.
>>     * BeleniX still does not boot on non-SSE CPUs (to be
>> handled in 0.7.2)
>>
>>
>> Website: www.belenix.org
>> Discussion List : belenix-discuss at opensolaris.org
>> IRC : #belenix @ freenode.net
>>
>> best regards
>> Shiv
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