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
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