Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

[Edward M]

On 02/15/11 16:58, ken mays wrote:

Ed,

If you can't get it to work, there are reported issues with certain GT220 cards 
(bad hardware batches, like the Intel Sandy Bridge incident).

Nvidia is aware of this issue.

So, you can replace the GT220 card with the GT430 or GeForce 9600 GT to resolve 
your issue.

~ Ken Mays

Hi,

Thanks for the info, I got to work with  only with the the "vesa" 
driver under solaris 11 ex and OI, however the card works like a charm 
under oracle linux with nvidia 260 driver.
 i will look  if there is any informantion pertaining my video 
card  about a  recall from the manufacturer.


--
Regards,
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

[Frank Middleton]

On 02/15/11 19:58, ken mays wrote:

Ed,

If you can't get it to work, there are reported issues with certain
GT220 cards (bad hardware batches, like the Intel Sandy Bridge
incident).

Nvidia is aware of this issue.

So, you can replace the GT220 card with the GT430 or GeForce 9600 GT
to resolve your issue.


My experience with a GT460 hasn't been too stellar. If you enable the
screensaver, after blanking the screen it starts outputting error
messages as fast as the logging device can write them. When it goes
to suspend it goes into the WAIT mode, writing log entries every 3
seconds. Unfortunately it sometimes goes into WAIT even with the
screensaver disabled, but the screensaver method is quite repeatable.

It seems to take a power cycle to get the card working again once this
has happened, so for now at least, a GT460 seems to be unusable :-(.

Hopefully this will be fixed by 7001754, but I would treat any of the
higher end Nvidia cards with suspicion for now...

Cheers -- Frank

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

[ken mays]

Ed,

If you can't get it to work, there are reported issues with certain GT220 cards 
(bad hardware batches, like the Intel Sandy Bridge incident).

Nvidia is aware of this issue.

So, you can replace the GT220 card with the GT430 or GeForce 9600 GT to resolve 
your issue.

~ Ken Mays

 

--- On Tue, 2/15/11, Edward M  wrote:

> From: Edward M 
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice
> To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
> Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 1:16 PM
> On 02/14/11 17:54, Ken Gunderson
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 16:48 -0800, Edward Martinez
> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:41:29 +
> >>> From: guy.wool...@btinternet.com
> >>> To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
> >>> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL -
> nVidia Questions&  Advice
> >>> 
> >>>    You just need to look at
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change "vesa" to "nv"
> >>> - that should do it. My Xorg.conf file reads
> simply.
> > [snip]
> > 
> >>          Section
> "ServerLayout"
> >>          Identifier 
>    "X.org Configured"
> >>          Screen 
>     0  "Screen0" 0 0
> > Perhaps you may have something amiss with the Screen
> line in your
> > ServerLayout section.  Don't you need quotes,
> e.g. shouldn't it read
> > something more like:
> > 
> > Screen    "Screen 1"
> > 
> > Or in your case "Screen0"??
> > 
> > What happens when you grep /var/log/Xorg.0.log for WW
> and EE?
> > 
>      Hi,
> 
>      I changed my screens setting to 1
> it still did not work. this is what i got when i grep
> searched /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
> 
>           (EE) NV(0): No vailid
> initial configuration found
>           (EE) Screen(s) found,
> but none have a usable configuration
> 
>      I 'm beginning to suspect that
> xorg does not have timings for some monitors when set to
> nv,  because vesa driver works with  this
> xorg.conf file.
>      I think if possible the nv driver
> should be replaced for  nouveau
> 
> 
> -- Regards,
> Edward
> 
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Multifunction colour laser printer for OSOL, OI ?

[Christopher Chan]

On Tuesday, February 15, 2011 05:24 PM, Guy Woolley wrote:

Hello all,
Does anyone have positive experience of a currently available (not
legacy) Multifunction colour laser printer (duplex printing,copy, scan,
fax) running under recent OpenSolaris or OpenIndiana ?



I suppose you are not interested in the scan and fax functions?

Are there any that are supported?

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana mailing list

[Dmitry G. Kozhinov]

Sorry for this.

On 16.02.2011 4:40, Ken Gunderson wrote:

It would be nice if you would start a new message rather than replying
to existing and merely changing subject, as the latter practice messes
up threading.


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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RFC: OI website brain storm page

[jay undernet]

Hi,

the link you gave didn't work

the link is http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Website+Ideas



2011/2/15 Deano 

> Hi everybody,
>
> We are having a brainstorm of website ideas to prepare for working out a
> series of goals that can be turned into something real by our web people.
>
> To facilitate this we have put up a page on the wiki to take ideas and
> examples (and anti-examples) of features and sites that would make the OI
> website a great front door to the project.
> These will be used to help the web design feature the best our community
> can
> think of. We will be discussing the ideas at the next OI irc meeting, next
> Tuesday, so if you have any thoughts on how the website should look, feel
> and work please throw the ideas down at
> http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Website-Ideas
>
> As always the more help and input the community puts in, the greater the
> result will be.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Deano
> de...@cloudpixies.com
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana mailing list

[Ken Gunderson]

On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 18:28 +0500, Dmitry G. Kozhinov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> To whom it may concern. The link to OpenIndiana mailing list 
> (http://openindiana.org/mailman) should be added somewhere at the main page.
> 
> Currently the only way to find the mailing list (at least which I could 
> find) is way too long and hidden:
> "Documentation" -> "FAQ" -> "Where can I get more info or keep up to 
> date with the project?" -> "Please join our mailing lists – 
> http://openindiana.org/mailman";.
> 
> Could it be e.g. "Support" -> "Mailing lists" ?
> 
> Dmitry.
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It would be nice if you would start a new message rather than replying
to existing and merely changing subject, as the latter practice messes
up threading.

Thank you.

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[OpenIndiana-discuss] RFC: OI website brain storm page

[Deano]

Hi everybody,

We are having a brainstorm of website ideas to prepare for working out a
series of goals that can be turned into something real by our web people.

To facilitate this we have put up a page on the wiki to take ideas and
examples (and anti-examples) of features and sites that would make the OI
website a great front door to the project.
These will be used to help the web design feature the best our community can
think of. We will be discussing the ideas at the next OI irc meeting, next
Tuesday, so if you have any thoughts on how the website should look, feel
and work please throw the ideas down at
http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Website-Ideas

As always the more help and input the community puts in, the greater the
result will be.

Thanks a lot,
Deano
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[OpenIndiana-discuss] Problems with attached disk chassis

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

Hi all

I just got a new disk chassis for 2,5" disks with 2+10 SSDs (two smaller ones 
for SLOG, the rest for L2ARC). These are attached to a SAS6 LSI controller, but 
I cannot see any drives. Output of scanpci is http://pastebin.com/aGKR9X32 and 
prtconf -D says http://pastebin.com/W6yqXRRR and then, prtconf -v says 
http://karlsbakk.net/prtconf-v.txt.gz

I also tried connecting the chassis to the existing SAS3 controller that indeed 
works (12 2TB drives connected there), but still no cigar.

Does anyone know where to start debugging this? Can it be a hardware 
configuration issue, or can it be software still?

Vennlige hilsener / Best regards

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Multifunction colour laser printer for OSOL, OI ?

[Guy Woolley]

 Thanks for the advice - I'll keep looking. The Lexmark's look 
attractive (Model 544DN and relatives) but the spec details show Sparc 
8,9,10 and X86-Solaris 10, but no sign of Solaris 11.


Cheers

Guy

On 02/15/11 02:06 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote:

On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 09:24 +, Guy Woolley wrote:

Hello all,
   Does anyone have positive experience of a currently
available (not legacy) Multifunction colour laser printer (duplex
printing,copy, scan, fax) running under recent OpenSolaris or OpenIndiana ?

I have located 2 possible models:

Samsung CLX-6220FX

No experience here.


Manufacturer mentions a "Unified driver for Linux"

Brother DCP-9055CDN

Experience with a few Brother models.  Presently an MFC-8860DN and
HL-1650N.  A few others at various client sites that I forget the model
numbers off the top of my head.

In my experience the key, at least w.r.t. the printing side is to get a
Postscript printer.  HP invented their competing printer control
language because they didn't want to have to pay Adobe royalties where
more of the processing is done client side and requires client side
drivers.  With Postscript printers most (all?) processing is done by the
printer engine.  Hence, as long as you have a postscript printer
definition file (ppd) you're good to go.  Otherwise you end up with
reverse engineered foomatic and may end up with a lag between release
and CUPS support.


manufacturer mentions CUPS driver download.

Now that CUPS is become defacto *nix standard, it's good to see some
manufacturers supporting it out of the gate.  But I'd still opt for a
Postscript, or Brother's functionally equivalent "BR Script" printer -
they'll run forever w/o any need for driver updates.

AFAIK, CUPS is not going to get your scanner or fax working though.  For
scanner you need SANE and I've minimal experience there.  I think HPLIP
gives SANE an interface to HP scanners but haven't a clue as to which
models are currently supported.


Any other suggestions v. welcome - or even report that the above do NOT
work, or that there is no such thing would be very useful.

Were I you, I'd also be looking at Lexmark.


I've tried openprinting.org but didn't get anywhere.

Thanks

Guy

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Multifunction colour laser printer for OSOL, OI ?

[Guy Woolley]

 Thanks very much for the info. The Samsung "Unified driver for Linux" 
package has buried deep in it two folders named "CUPS" and "SANE", so 
fingers crossed it might work with OI148 (it does indeed have CUPS 
management via localhost:631). On the other hand looking at those 
folders there's no apparent reference to any .ppd file. So I'm a bit 
confused as to what is being offered. Bizarrely Samsung.co.uk Support 
doesn't have an email contact though I could write them a letter (!) or 
telephone (chances of speaking to someone familiar with the Solaris 11 
family at the end of the phone probably about 0). I'll keep digging and 
report back any success.


Guy

On 02/15/11 12:47 PM, Bruce Hoiem wrote:
OSol, including Oracle Solaris 11 Express, and OI-147 all have the 
CUPS printing system, so all you need is the ppd file for the printer 
you choose. I haven't checked OI-148, but suspect it keeps CUPS. I did 
check OI-147 on VirtualBox with the LiveCD install.


The Brother DCP-9055CDN is not listed in the CUPS Add Printer dialog, 
but you have an option to add the PPD file ("CUPS driver") for it. 
Likewise, the Samsung printer isn't list, but you said you can get the 
PPD file from Samsung. You might check that the Linux driver is the 
PPD file.


My recent printer is an HP OfficeJet Pro 8500 all-in-one, and it 
prints simplex and duplex. I haven't done any host-initiated scanning 
(don't know if it is possible.) The OS's I've used with it are 
OpenSolaris 2009.06, snv_134, and Oracle Solaris 11 Express, and I had 
to find and then add the PPD file for it.


Configure CUPS with http://localhost:631 in a web browser. There are 
comprehensive help pages there, too.


HTH,
Bruce

On 02/15/11 02:24, Guy Woolley wrote:

 Hello all,
 Does anyone have positive experience of a currently 
available (not legacy) Multifunction colour laser printer (duplex 
printing,copy, scan, fax) running under recent OpenSolaris or 
OpenIndiana ?


I have located 2 possible models:

Samsung CLX-6220FX

Manufacturer mentions a "Unified driver for Linux"

Brother DCP-9055CDN

manufacturer mentions CUPS driver download.

Any other suggestions v. welcome - or even report that the above do 
NOT work, or that there is no such thing would be very useful.


I've tried openprinting.org but didn't get anywhere.

Thanks

Guy

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

[Edward M]

On 02/14/11 17:54, Ken Gunderson wrote:

On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 16:48 -0800, Edward Martinez wrote:



Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:41:29 +
From: guy.wool...@btinternet.com
To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions&  Advice

   You just need to look at /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change "vesa" to "nv"
- that should do it. My Xorg.conf file reads simply.

[snip]


 Section "ServerLayout"
 Identifier "X.org Configured"
 Screen  0  "Screen0" 0 0

Perhaps you may have something amiss with the Screen line in your
ServerLayout section.  Don't you need quotes, e.g. shouldn't it read
something more like:

Screen  "Screen 1"

Or in your case "Screen0"??

What happens when you grep /var/log/Xorg.0.log for WW and EE?


 Hi,

 I changed my screens setting to 1 it still did not work. this is 
what i got when i grep searched /var/log/Xorg.0.log:


  (EE) NV(0): No vailid initial configuration found
  (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration

 I 'm beginning to suspect that xorg does not have timings for some 
monitors when set to nv,  because vesa driver works with  this xorg.conf 
file.

 I think if possible the nv driver should be replaced for  nouveau


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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

[Edward M]

On 02/15/11 03:21, Guy Woolley wrote:

 Edward,
 Sorry I wasn't any help. Now I begin to wonder why mine 
is working!


Guy


   Hi,

I'm sure it's not you it's me;-)  this is my learning system, not 
my main unit at home.  so i will reinstall OI and try again,
if it still does not work i'll just leave the driver settings set 
to vesa,  I still get a great picture using vesa driver.


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[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI / opensol on the new AMD fusion zacate platform.

[C C]

After getting nowhere with my attempts on tracking down the power management 
bugs I'm going for a new low power server. The new zacate boards (available 
from asus, gigabyte, msi & asrock so-far) look like a compelling platform for a 
small server: gigabit ethernet and between 4-6  6gbps sata ports plus a pci 
express slot and power consumption between 19-40w.  I haven't fond anything on 
the opensolaris hcl about compatibility but this platform is only about  2 
months old. I'm wondering if anyone on the mailing list has had a chance to try 
one? 


Thanks

C
  
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] perl -MCPAN can't select continent "invalid items entered, try again"

[Thommy M . Malmström]

Solved it myself. Just answer n (no) at the question to use the local database


Shall I use the local database in /root/.cpan/sources/MIRRORED.BY? [y] n


Cheers

2011/2/15 Thommy M. Malmström :
> On oi-b148 when I want to add a perl library from CPAN for the first
> time, there's a configuration part taking part. When it comes to the
> part where one should select the favorite CPAN-mirror there's an
> error. See below. What can I do to mitigate this problem?
>
>
>
> 
> Now we need to know where your favorite CPAN sites are located. Push
> a few sites onto the array (just in case the first on the array won't
> work). If you are mirroring CPAN to your local workstation, specify a
> file: URL.
>
> First, pick a nearby continent and country (you can pick several of
> each, separated by spaces, or none if you just want to keep your
> existing selections). Then, you will be presented with a list of URLs
> of CPAN mirrors in the countries you selected, along with previously
> selected URLs. Select some of those URLs, or just keep the old list.
> Finally, you will be prompted for any extra URLs -- file:, ftp:, or
> http: -- that host a CPAN mirror.
>
> Select your continent (or several nearby continents) [] 28
> invalid items entered, try again
> ---
>
>
> No matter what value I give it says "invalid items entered, try again"
>



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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Multifunction colour laser printer for OSOL, OI ?

[Ken Gunderson]

On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 09:24 +, Guy Woolley wrote:
> Hello all,
>   Does anyone have positive experience of a currently 
> available (not legacy) Multifunction colour laser printer (duplex 
> printing,copy, scan, fax) running under recent OpenSolaris or OpenIndiana ?
> 
> I have located 2 possible models:
> 
> Samsung CLX-6220FX

No experience here.

> Manufacturer mentions a "Unified driver for Linux"
> 
> Brother DCP-9055CDN

Experience with a few Brother models.  Presently an MFC-8860DN and
HL-1650N.  A few others at various client sites that I forget the model
numbers off the top of my head.

In my experience the key, at least w.r.t. the printing side is to get a
Postscript printer.  HP invented their competing printer control
language because they didn't want to have to pay Adobe royalties where
more of the processing is done client side and requires client side
drivers.  With Postscript printers most (all?) processing is done by the
printer engine.  Hence, as long as you have a postscript printer
definition file (ppd) you're good to go.  Otherwise you end up with
reverse engineered foomatic and may end up with a lag between release
and CUPS support. 

> manufacturer mentions CUPS driver download.

Now that CUPS is become defacto *nix standard, it's good to see some
manufacturers supporting it out of the gate.  But I'd still opt for a
Postscript, or Brother's functionally equivalent "BR Script" printer -
they'll run forever w/o any need for driver updates.  

AFAIK, CUPS is not going to get your scanner or fax working though.  For
scanner you need SANE and I've minimal experience there.  I think HPLIP
gives SANE an interface to HP scanners but haven't a clue as to which
models are currently supported.

> 
> Any other suggestions v. welcome - or even report that the above do NOT 
> work, or that there is no such thing would be very useful.

Were I you, I'd also be looking at Lexmark.

> I've tried openprinting.org but didn't get anywhere.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Guy
> 
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS mirror or stripe support on boot volume

[Dmitry G. Kozhinov]

As far as I know, this isn't the case. You simply cannot select 2 disks 
- only one is selectable.
IMHO this feature must be implemented, but not yet. I don't know if 
someone is working on this.


You can add a mirror to rpool after the installation - see 
http://www.nickebo.net/making-your-zfs-root-pool-a-mirror-post-installation/ 
for example.


Dmitry.




During installation, just select 2 disks and they're automatically mirrored 
(last I knew.)



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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana mailing list

[Deano]

We will make it more obvious to get to, as we shuffle things about.

Thanks for pointing it out :)

Deano

-Original Message-
From: Dmitry G. Kozhinov [mailto:d...@desktopfay.com] 
Sent: 15 February 2011 13:29
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana mailing list

Hi,

To whom it may concern. The link to OpenIndiana mailing list 
(http://openindiana.org/mailman) should be added somewhere at the main page.

Currently the only way to find the mailing list (at least which I could 
find) is way too long and hidden:
"Documentation" -> "FAQ" -> "Where can I get more info or keep up to 
date with the project?" -> "Please join our mailing lists - 
http://openindiana.org/mailman";.

Could it be e.g. "Support" -> "Mailing lists" ?

Dmitry.

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[OpenIndiana-discuss] perl -MCPAN can't select continent "invalid items entered, try again"

[Thommy M . Malmström]

On oi-b148 when I want to add a perl library from CPAN for the first
time, there's a configuration part taking part. When it comes to the
part where one should select the favorite CPAN-mirror there's an
error. See below. What can I do to mitigate this problem?




Now we need to know where your favorite CPAN sites are located. Push
a few sites onto the array (just in case the first on the array won't
work). If you are mirroring CPAN to your local workstation, specify a
file: URL.

First, pick a nearby continent and country (you can pick several of
each, separated by spaces, or none if you just want to keep your
existing selections). Then, you will be presented with a list of URLs
of CPAN mirrors in the countries you selected, along with previously
selected URLs. Select some of those URLs, or just keep the old list.
Finally, you will be prompted for any extra URLs -- file:, ftp:, or
http: -- that host a CPAN mirror.

Select your continent (or several nearby continents) [] 28
invalid items entered, try again
---


No matter what value I give it says "invalid items entered, try again"

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[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana mailing list

[Dmitry G. Kozhinov]

Hi,

To whom it may concern. The link to OpenIndiana mailing list 
(http://openindiana.org/mailman) should be added somewhere at the main page.


Currently the only way to find the mailing list (at least which I could 
find) is way too long and hidden:
"Documentation" -> "FAQ" -> "Where can I get more info or keep up to 
date with the project?" -> "Please join our mailing lists – 
http://openindiana.org/mailman";.


Could it be e.g. "Support" -> "Mailing lists" ?

Dmitry.

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Multifunction colour laser printer for OSOL, OI ?

[McBofh]

On 15/02/11 07:24 PM, Guy Woolley wrote:

Hello all,
Does anyone have positive experience of a currently available (not
legacy) Multifunction colour laser printer (duplex printing,copy,
scan, fax) running under recent OpenSolaris or OpenIndiana ?

I have located 2 possible models:

Samsung CLX-6220FX

Manufacturer mentions a "Unified driver for Linux"

Brother DCP-9055CDN

manufacturer mentions CUPS driver download.

Any other suggestions v. welcome - or even report that the above do
NOT work, or that there is no such thing would be very useful.

I've tried openprinting.org but didn't get anywhere.


Hello Guy,
My experience recently has been with Canon and Epson. Both
companies claim to be opensource-friendly, but Canon's openness
only extends as far as giving you pre-compiled linux binary
blobs for its actual raster engine.

Epson, on the other hand, provides proper buildable source for
their consumer-grade inkjets (I've got the Stylus Photo TX810fw)
and it works very nicely indeed. The only quibble I've got is
that I still need to hack on the ppd so it'll do duplexing for
me. But that's not a high priority at the moment.

Epson's drivers are available via http://avasys.jp/eng/linux_driver,
and they do have a section for lasers.


Once you've got their bits installed, it's very easy to tell
CUPS about them, and away you go.


McB


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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Multifunction colour laser printer for OSOL, OI ?

[Bruce Hoiem]

OSol, including Oracle Solaris 11 Express, and OI-147 all have the CUPS 
printing system, so all you need is the ppd file for the printer you 
choose. I haven't checked OI-148, but suspect it keeps CUPS. I did check 
OI-147 on VirtualBox with the LiveCD install.


The Brother DCP-9055CDN is not listed in the CUPS Add Printer dialog, 
but you have an option to add the PPD file ("CUPS driver") for it. 
Likewise, the Samsung printer isn't list, but you said you can get the 
PPD file from Samsung. You might check that the Linux driver is the PPD 
file.


My recent printer is an HP OfficeJet Pro 8500 all-in-one, and it prints 
simplex and duplex. I haven't done any host-initiated scanning (don't 
know if it is possible.) The OS's I've used with it are OpenSolaris 
2009.06, snv_134, and Oracle Solaris 11 Express, and I had to find and 
then add the PPD file for it.


Configure CUPS with http://localhost:631 in a web browser. There are 
comprehensive help pages there, too.


HTH,
Bruce

On 02/15/11 02:24, Guy Woolley wrote:

 Hello all,
 Does anyone have positive experience of a currently 
available (not legacy) Multifunction colour laser printer (duplex 
printing,copy, scan, fax) running under recent OpenSolaris or 
OpenIndiana ?


I have located 2 possible models:

Samsung CLX-6220FX

Manufacturer mentions a "Unified driver for Linux"

Brother DCP-9055CDN

manufacturer mentions CUPS driver download.

Any other suggestions v. welcome - or even report that the above do 
NOT work, or that there is no such thing would be very useful.


I've tried openprinting.org but didn't get anywhere.

Thanks

Guy

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

[Guy Woolley]

 Edward,
 Sorry I wasn't any help. Now I begin to wonder why mine is 
working!


Guy

On 02/15/11 12:48 AM, Edward Martinez wrote:




Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:41:29 +
From: guy.wool...@btinternet.com
To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions&  Advice

   You just need to look at /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change "vesa" to "nv"
- that should do it. My Xorg.conf file reads simply.


Section "Device"
  Identifier  "Card0"
  Driver  "nv"
EndSection

I have a 27" monitor that needs 1920 x 1080. Vesa looks terrible for me
as it doesn't get past 1280x 1024 (if I remember rightly). It's a shame
as this card is a) cheap and b) looks pretty good when it does its stuff
under WinXP.

The other downside is that most of the Screensavers shipped with OI
don't work for me.

Best of luck

Guy

Hi,
  Did not work for me. I made my xorg.conf to look like yours but I get the 
following error and i was also getting the xtsol module not found but that
   was cleared up when i installed trusted-xorgserver.  current error:

   NV(0): No valid intial configuration found
   Screens found, but none have a usable configuration

 Fatal server error:
 no screens found

so i thought  issuing "Xorg -configure" might help but it did not i get the 
same error

  xorg-conf file created from Xorg -configure cmd:

 Section "ServerLayout"
 Identifier "X.org Configured"
 Screen  0  "Screen0" 0 0
 InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer"
 InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
 ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/amd64"
 ModulePath   "/usr/X11/lib/modules/"
 FontPath "catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d"
EndSection

Section "Module"
 Load  "ia"
 Load  "extmod"
 Load  "dri2"
 Load  "dbe"
 Load  "xtsol"
 Load  "dri"
 Load  "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier  "Keyboard0"
 Driver  "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier  "Mouse0"
 Driver  "mouse"
 Option  "Protocol" "auto"
 Option  "Device" "/dev/mouse"
 Option  "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
 Identifier   "Monitor0"
 VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
 ModelName"Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
 Identifier  "Card0"
 Driver  "nv"
 VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
 BoardName   "GT200 [GeForce GT 220]"
 BusID   "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
 Identifier "Screen0"
   Device "Card0"
 Monitor"Monitor0"
 SubSection "Display"
 Viewport   0 0
 Depth 1
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
 Viewport   0 0
 Depth 4
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
 Viewport   0 0
 Depth 8
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
 Viewport   0 0
 Depth 15
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
 Viewport   0 0
 Depth 16
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
 Viewport   0 0
 Depth 24
 EndSubSection
EndSection

(END)




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[OpenIndiana-discuss] Multifunction colour laser printer for OSOL, OI ?

[Guy Woolley]

 Hello all,
 Does anyone have positive experience of a currently 
available (not legacy) Multifunction colour laser printer (duplex 
printing,copy, scan, fax) running under recent OpenSolaris or OpenIndiana ?


I have located 2 possible models:

Samsung CLX-6220FX

Manufacturer mentions a "Unified driver for Linux"

Brother DCP-9055CDN

manufacturer mentions CUPS driver download.

Any other suggestions v. welcome - or even report that the above do NOT 
work, or that there is no such thing would be very useful.


I've tried openprinting.org but didn't get anywhere.

Thanks

Guy

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