On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at gmail.com> wrote: > 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.....
177.13 causes problems with 8800GT as well. Hangs with blank screen. Looks like not a good release to move to. Regards, Moinak. > > 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 >> >
