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 >> _______________________________________________ >> belenix-dev mailing list >> belenix-dev at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > belenix-dev mailing list > belenix-dev at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-dev >
